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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (134725)	4/2/2001 4:33:05 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

This is the line relevant to the 40%: For murders in 1994, almost half of the victims were either related to (12 percent) or acquainted with (35 percent) their killers. Only 13 percent were killed by total strangers. I will check back on the murder rates......

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (134725)	4/2/2001 4:47:23 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

OK, this is the handgun ownership chart I referred to: US, 29% Switzerland, 14% Finland,7% Germany,7% Belgium,6% France, 6% Canada, 5% Norway,4% Europe,4% Australia,2% Netherlands, 2% UK, 1% Now, this is the chart of handgun murders: US, 5.28 (per 100k) Switzerland, 1.42 Canada, 0.47 Sweden, 0.42 Australia, 0.07 UK, 0.06 As I understood these as ordinal rankings, there is no positive correlation, since a number of countries are displaced in position. Also, the mathematical correlation is not strong, as with Switzerland having about half the rate of ownership, but only about a quarter of the handgun murders, or Australia having twice the gun ownership of the UK, but almost identical handgun murder figures. I will next peruse your most recently posted table....Seems to have the same data I just posted....