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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [qb] Kurt, Those countries' gun-death rates you quoted above? What's that boil down to percentage-wise? I mean, the U.S. has a slightly larger population than those other countries.[/qb][/QUOTE]I'm guessing you're referring to the Bowling for Columbine stuff, but that was in regards to gun deaths, probably including suicides in the US judging by the usual tactics of the gun control lobby (e.g. the Brady bunch). Japan's population is IIRC about a third of the US, so yes we have more gun deaths given Moore's numbers. But that's obvious, and doesn't prove the point he sought to make. The good thing to look at is here: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita And then cross-reference with specific searches by country. Poland, for instance, is another one I just looked up, since some forget it. ;) They have much stricter gun laws than the US inasmuch as what it takes to acquire one, yet have a 25% higher murder rate than the US. However, murders with firearms occur at about 1/8th the US rate. More murders, but fewer guns? How the devil could this be? Again, the issue must be cultural. You can take away the worst tools, and even take away not-so-bad tools, but humans intent on murder will find a way to improvise something, if not just do it by hand. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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