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To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (136847)	6/18/2004 11:02:46 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"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)." Gee, America doesn't have a gun culture, just a lot of hand guns. Maybe Moore is wrong after all. The NRA is a problem.

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (136847)	7/22/2004 11:22:46 AM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 281500

While those stats are interesting and have the correlations stated, unemployment certainly isn't an excuse to commit crimes. There are jobs available each and everyday as evidenced by the large influx of illegal immigrants that cross our borders everyday. If jobs were not available people would be crossing over into Mexico rather than vice versa. 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.