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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (136844)	6/17/2004 7:54:38 AM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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).

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (136844)	6/17/2004 8:24:28 AM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

permeated with fear (but not fear of squirrels) Woman vows revenge against squirrels Associated Press June 16, 2004 LAPORTE, Ind. -- A 78-year-old woman tired of squirrels raiding her bird feeder got out her shotgun to kill the critter, but instead accidentally shot and injured herself. Alberta Jones loaded her 16-gauge shotgun Sunday and carried it with the barrel pointed down to the back door to take aim, police said. The gun accidentally discharged, police said, and shotgun pellets ricocheted off the floor. Both of her legs were struck by the pellets, and one in her knee required surgery Tuesday to remove. Her hospital condition was not available Tuesday evening. "I've tried everything to shag them away, and they keep coming back," Jones said of the squirrels after the incident. Conservation officer Jerry Shepherd with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said it is not squirrel season, and that hunting game out of season is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. Authorities are not pressing charges. Jones vowed to keep shooting at squirrels and using firecrackers -- as she has done several times before -- to discourage them from getting into her bird feeder. She also shoots groundhogs and other animals she considers a nuisance. "My neighbors call me Annie Oakley," she said. indystar.com