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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] here's a statistic I read last night.. 90% of murders are committed by someone who already has a substantial criminal record. 90% of shootings that take place in the city is one criminal shooting another criminal. 80-85% of "acquaintance homicides" (that is, where the vicim knew the killer), the most common type, are committed by people who know each other because they are members of rival gangs or they buy and sell drugs to each other (or are competing dealers) -- Kleck, "Targeting Guns: Firearms and Violence in America" 1997. Take Minneapolis. A fair city, as cities go, low gang membership, etc. However, 45% of murders in Minneapolis from 1994-1997 were classified by the police as "gang-related." 45.4% of those arrested for all those murders were gang members. On average, the 234 Minneapolis murderers had 7.4 prior arrests, including 175 drug offenses, 173 violent crimes, 169 property crimes, and 82 prior weapons offenses. 31.4% were on felony probation. (Kleck, ibid.) seems to me it isn't the guns that are the problem. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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