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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (482514)	5/21/2009 2:17:20 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577651

Without some analysys it is impossible to draw agreement with your implication. For example the gun control law in Venezuela makes it illegal for anyone but the Police to purchase guns and look how they compare on murder: Murder Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people nationmaster.com ------------ The Swiss with 7 million people have hundreds of thousands of fully-automatic rifles in their homes and the Israelis, until recently, have had easy access to guns. Both countries have low homicide rates. Likewise this doesn't mean more guns less crime. The U.S. has a high gun murder rate, whereas a country like England with strict gun controls has almost no gun murders and a very low murder rate. Doesn't this show that gun control is effective in reducing murder rates? Not exactly. Prior to having any gun controls, England already had a homicide rate much lower than the United States. Japan is another country typically cited The U.S. has a higher non-gun murder rate than many European country's total murder rates. On the other hand, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Mexico have non-gun murder rates in excess of our total murder rate. Incidentally in 13th century Europe, several studies have estimated homicide rates in major cities to be around 60 per 100,000. (Even back then, the equivalent of coroners, kept records.) There are many, many factors, some much more prominent than gun availability that influence homicide rates and crime in general. Due to the many confounding factors that arise when attempting international comparisons, this approach would appear to hold little promise for determining the influence of gun levels (or handgun availability) on violence rates. guncite.com