I keep looking into this and every time somebody does an international report there are different results. There is a problem of people reporting crime and of definitions.
For example: ""Homicide rates in the U.S. far exceed those in any other industrialized nations. For other violent crimes, rates in the U.S. are among the world's highest and substantially exceed rates in Canada, our nearest neighbor in terms of geography, culture, and crime reporting. Among 16 industrialized countries surveyed in 1988, the U.S. had the highest prevalence rates for serious sexual assaults and for all other assaults including threats of physical harm." (Understanding and Preventing Violence 1993)" Someone at Lew Rockwell - a hard conservative/libertarian site, also came to much the same conclusion - the crime rate data is screwed up so you can't get conclusive results on how gun ownership rates effect crime. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
