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October 26, 1993

Bogus numbers for international crime rates

Category: international

Steve Kao said: RKBA.016 - Is the United States the most violent nation? Version 1.2 (last changed on 91/03/22 at 13:05:06) In homicide, the US is number 11, with a murder rate of 9.60 per 100,000. The nearest European country...

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October 15, 1993

Mundt, Gun Control, Canada and the US

Category: canada

Greg Booth said: A 1976 study put guns in 40% of Canadian households. An Angus Reid poll in 1991 put the number at 23%. The 1989 International Crime Survey gave 29% From Phil Ronzone's rkba.002 (US rates converted to rate...

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October 5, 1993

Are stab wounds as dangerous as gun shot wounds?

Category: knives

Point Blank, by Gary Kleck, pg 165, citing a study by Wilson and Sherman, 1961: "At least one medical study compared very similar sets of wounds ('all were penetrating wounds of the abdomen'), and found that the mortality rate in...

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Gary Kleck Interview: 2.5 million defensive uses.

Category: dgu

Alfred A. Hambidge, Jr. said: For the benefit of those trying to follow this thread, could you post the NCS questions in question? There are 20 screening questions. I'm not going to type them all in -- the following are...

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