RE: Re: knife ban going to work?

["Brian Azzopardi" <brian () gfi com>]

You bring up an important point: IMO the homicide rate per million is
too coarse a statistic. 

Splitting the data along demographic and geographic lines, while prolly
not PC would be more illuminating. I have a hunch that most of middle
America and middle England would have a very similar homicide rate. Pure
speculation on my part but I think it's the outliers which skew the
results.

Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Jarrod Frates
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [funsec] Re: knife ban going to work?

On 5/24/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> We don't expect it to stop murders. But our murder rate is a tiny 
> fraction of yours. And that's something that you're jealous of.

It was a small fraction *before* the gun ban.  Through much of the
United States, the murder rate is much closer to (though still somewhat
higher than) that of much of Western Europe.  Poorer neighborhoods,
however, tend to have very high levels of crime, including murder, and
since our "poor" areas can encompass tens or even hundreds of thousands
of people, the aggregate numbers can change significantly.

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