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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (142296)	2/4/2002 2:48:06 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578563

In 1999/00, there were 6,843 offences recorded in which firearms other than air weapons were reported to have been used. This was 31 per cent higher than in 1998/99, and the highest number since 1993. The rise in recorded firearm offences in Scotland from 1998 to 1999 was 32 per cent. (Table 3.3) First, the 6,800 guns offences [taken from your link] was for England and Wales, not Scotland. Secondly, that number pales by comparison to the 533,000 offences in the US in 2000. The population of England and Wales is 52 million; the US 285 million. That means that while it has 5.5 times the population of England/Wales, the US has 78 times the number of gun offences. So much for gun control being the disaster that the NRA would lead us to believe. Besides, do you really think that a woman who has been raped at the point of a gun, or the parents of a child who has accidently shot him/herself, or the wife of a man who was killed by a gun robbery will be real impressed with a 31 percent increase in gun offences in Scotland after the implementation of gun controls when the base is so much lower than the US....particularly when the United Kingdom has a history of spikes in violent crime only to have those crime rates revert back to the norm after a short period of time?!! The NRA argues that we need guns to protect ourselves from criminals; that with gun control in place, gun offences would increase dramatically in this country. Well, with no gun control, the US gun crime rate swamps those countries which have gun control. Frankly, I think its the policies of the NRA from which we need protection, not criminals or gun control. ted