Re: FBI: More Guns == Less Crime

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

>    "The Home Office figures - which exclude crimes involving air weapons -

>    show the number of deaths and injuries caused by gun attacks in England

>    and Wales soared from 864 in 1998-99 to 3,821 in 2005-06. 

Actually, it's virtually impossible to draw meaningful conclusions either
way from Home Office figures, as the only thing that doesn't keep changing
in the way firearms-related crimes are reported is their inconsistency. For
instance, while that figure doesn't include air weapons, it does include
imitation weapons and injury includes "used as a threat" as well as physical
injury.

You might want to go back to source:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0207.pdf

--
David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET




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