On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:14:41 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:59:42 +0000, David Monaghan
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:55:19 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:


That leaves out the US then doesnt it?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice...ate-at-lowest-
point-in-decades.-Why-America-is-safer-now

On the other hand...in the UK....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oc...es-fall-halted

Yet...gun ownership in the US is at an all time high...

On the other hand:

US Murder rate 4.8 per hundred thousand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

England & Wales murder rate 11.5 per million (1.15 per hundred thousand)

Scotland murder rate 21.4 per million (2.14 per hundred thousand) - the
second highest in Europe.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/ja...owest-12-years

DaveM

Yes indeed it is. And is rising rapidly


Actually they're going down.

http://www.london24.com/news/crime/
london_crime_rates_city_hall_hopefuls_react_to_fig ures_1_1182980

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