Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [b--o--h] at [mdd.comm.mot.com] (Greg Booth)
Subject: Re: So much for "civilized" Canada
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 22:16:06 GMT

[f--r--a] at [agcs.com] (Andrew Ford) writes:
>[c d t] at [sw.stratus.com] (C. D. Tavares) writes:
>! A repost from info.firearms.politics.  I certainly was amazed by these
>! statistics...
>! 
>! [b--o--h] at [mdd.comm.mot.com] (Greg Booth) writes:
>! 
>! > Reported in Canadian Access to Firearms
>! 
>! > Per Capita 1991 figures,
>! 
>! > Canada's property crime rate was 124% of the US rate.
>! > Canada's violent crime rate was 145% of the US violent crime rate.
>! > Canada's sexual assault rate was 267% of US rate.

>And people laugh when I suggest that Sen. Kennedy's support for gun control
>is less "concern with the number of people killed" and more "concern for the
>safety of rapists."

>! 
>! > The ratios have since gotten higher.

>If y'all have the date of issue, pages, and the publishers address, I'd much
>appreciate the info.

Reported in 

Canadian Access to Firearms   Vol. 8 No. 6
August 1993

7225-7th avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-1R8
Phone (403) 668-5609
FAX (403)668-3006

in an ad by the National Firearms Association.


If someone has the US rates for property crime, violent crime,
and sexual assault, I have the 1990 rates for Canada, and
am working on getting the 1991 rates, we can verify
these numbers.



>-- 
>Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is
>"for the good of society as a whole."  However, society is but a large number
>of individuals, and how can harming the individual parts better the whole? 
> - Andrew Ford      --     [f--r--a] at [agcs.com]   --   (a strong INFP [>75% in all 4])
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