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To: microhoogle! who wrote (40352)	9/28/2000 1:17:53 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<How about Canada? How come their crime rate is much lower than USA? >> Thanks for the links, this is from one of your sites. Canada is mentioned in the last paragraph. Remember, this is from one of your sites. The center found, using a variety of sources including leading University of Florida criminologist Gary Kleck and the FBI's own National Crime Statistics reports, that: In 1976, Washington, D.C. enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134 percent while the national murder rate has dropped 2 percent. After Evanston, Ill., a Chicago suburb of 75,000 residents, became the largest town to ban handgun ownership in September 1982, it experienced no decline in violent crime. Among the 15 states with the highest homicide rates, 10 have restrictive or very restrictive gun laws. Twenty percent of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just six percent of the population -- New York, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C. -- and each has a virtual prohibition on private handguns. New York has one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation -- and 20 percent of the armed robberies. Even more troublesome is the fact that the places where gun control laws are toughest tend to be the places where the most crime is committed with illegal weapons. One Chicago judge told the center, "The most striking experience I can take away from the gun court ... is ... the kinds of people that appear there as defendants. ... This is their very first arrest of any kind. Many of them are old people, many of them are shopkeepers, persons who have been previous victims of violent crime." And, the center said, other countries have had similar experiences. For instance, "After Canada passed a gun control law in 1977, the murder rate failed to decline, but armed robbery and burglary, crimes frequently deterred by gun ownership, increased."