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September 30, 1993
Category: canada
Canada. Gun law in 78. Homicide rate (per 100,000 population) 74-78 2.7 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.8 average 2.9 79-83 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7 average 2.6 (a t test on the statistical significance of the difference of the means gives...
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September 26, 1993
Category: international
Look in "Experiences of Crime across the World" van Dijk, Mayhew and Killias (1991). This reports the result of an international victimisation survey in the US, Canada, Australia and 11 European countries. Danny Low said: The last time I looked...
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September 24, 1993
Category: international
Steve Kao said: Perhaps someone from Switzerland can enlighten us. Are not all males between the ages of 18 and 55 issued rifles? No. All male Swiss citizens between 20 and 50 who are in the army are issued rifles....
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September 22, 1993
Category: dgu
Jon Buck said: NCS didn't do a very good job of asking; they only asked about defensive weapon use after the respondent answered positively to having been a victim of a crime. Right, so cases where someone whipped out a...
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Category: international
C. D. Tavares said: Hey, Tim --- perhaps you can compare the ten largest US cities --- the places where the vast majority of US violent crime occurs --- with third world nations, and then enumerate for us the sociological...
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September 21, 1993
Category: dgu
Michael J. Phelps said: Is it not possible that many unsuccessful robberies are not reported, thus not included in the NCS data? NCS data is not based on reports, but a very extensive survey. Consider that a person who is...
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Category: dgu
Kleck's survey: (1) 2,500,000 defensive uses (2) 8% of these involve wounding/killing a criminal. Therefore: 8% of 2,500,000 = 200,000 defensive uses involve wounding/killing a criminal. Kleck's earlier research: (3) 15% of gunshot wounds are fatal. David Barton said: I...
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September 20, 1993
Category: dgu
Larry Cipriani said: KLECK: About 8 percent of the defensive uses involved a sexual crime such as an attempted sexual assault. About 29 percent involved some sort of assault other than sexual assault. Thirty-three percent involved a burglary or some...
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Category: international
Nosy said: Perhaps Lambert can explain why the US murder RATE in which feet and/or fists were used as weapons is higher than the Canadian or UK murder rate with the same weapons. Are feet and/or fists more "readily available"...
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Category: japan
In "Point Blank" Gary Kleck writes: ``One way one might crudely and partially control for United States-Japan cultural differences is to compare homicide rates among Japanese-Americans, who live where guns are plentiful, with the homicide rates of their presumably culturally...
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September 17, 1993
Category: international
Peter K. Boucher said: We have higher homicide rates than many nations, but guns aren't the cause of it. In any case, this kind of comparison can be used by both sides (Mexico has stricter gun control and more homicide,...
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