Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (136844)	6/17/2004 7:54:38 AM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I said that there is an aspect of American life that is permeated with fear You said this, though. That's a sweeping generalization that covers 300 million people. I don't see how Americans are any more "permeated with fear" than any other humans. There is much more to consider. fraserinstitute.ca The contrast between the criminal violence rates in the United States and in Canada is dramatic. Over the past decade, the rate of violent crime in Canada has increased while in the United States the violent crime rate has plummeted. The homicide rate is dropping faster in the US than in Canada. gunsandcrime.org Demographics from the 1996 census for virtually all of British Columbia, Canada (divided into 144 jurisdictions and areas) are regressed against 1997 and 1998 rape rates and overall violent crime rates for those same jurisdictions and areas. The best predictor of rape rates and violent crime rates was found to be the portion of the population that is aborigine (native American), probably because the portions aboriginal correlate well with multiple factors that are generally accepted as being contributors to criminality. When aboriginal proportion is excluded from the regression, a few of those factors become the best, quite effective predictors of crime rates. Each percent of unemployment rate was found to predict .184 rapes (s=.026) and .774 violent crimes (s=.142) per 1000 population. Each percent of families having only one parent in the home was found to predict .084 rapes (s=.031) and .997 violent crimes (s=.170) per 1000 population. Unemployment and 1-parent homes account for 23.5 and 15.0 percent, respectively, of the total violent crime and 30.5 and 3.3 percent, respectively, of the rape rates. bowlingfortruth.com Moore also claims several times that our higher gun homicide rate must be the result of American culture rather than the greater number of guns in our country, citing the fact that Canada has a much lower gun homicide rate despite having seven million guns in its ten million homes (Moore ignores the fact that Canada has significantly fewer handguns and a much stricter gun licensing system).

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next