Re: Re: knife ban going to work?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:19:53 PDT, Jarrod Frates said:

> within the framework of their society.  Canada has a very similar
> make-up to the US socially: we watch largely the same TV, we drive the
> same cars, wear the same clothes, and have approximately the same
> religious distribution.  Yet the murder rate is lower there, even in
> areas that have high poverty rates and population densities.  One
> crime that is higher is sexual assault, which according to the numbers
> is something like three times that of the US.  Whether this is due to
> a much more inclusive definition of sexual assault or just that
> Canadians are more willing to push themselves on others, I'm not sure.

Or the other obvious possibility - the *actual* rates are nearly identical,
but the *reporting* rates are different.  At least in the US, it's *known*
that many go unreported.

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