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To: Kid Rock who wrote (30571)	2/17/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<The overall figures - which include Dunblane, where 16 young children and their teacher were murdered by the Thomas Hamilton - reveal there were 137 victims of murder or culpable homicide. Despite this figure, an increase of three on the 1995 death toll, there were 15 fewer cases of homicide. Of the 137 victims, 99 (70 per cent) were men.>> Well, yes, Thomas, I was looking for figures on deaths caused by knives. I am not sure what the figures in Scotland prove, however--their overall homicide rate was down in 1997, the year they are discussing. Only 137 murder victims in the entire country, and they are enacting tough new legislation to take knives away from thugs. Forty-two percent of murders were caused by knives or axes. This raises an interesting point--if the criminals don't have knives, will they stone people to death? Or smother them? I am a little unsure of the significance of comparing knife to gun murders in a population with such a small overall violent death rate. I don't really think I would call this an epidemic of knife murders, though. What do you think? scotsman.com