Maybe. Assuming it is correct it's a single statistic. How many of the
posited murders were commited with hunting weapons? How many with knives or
other sharp implements? How many by brute force? Poisoning?
So we must ask is firearms availability the issue?
Now as to frequency. Assume 300mil population. As I do the math that's
~526k murders a year, or a rate of 0.00175 per year. I've no idea how that
compares to other industrialized countries or other cultures.
OK. I did a quick search. CNN reports that 1997 there were 18,209 murders
with the rate at 30 year low. So I rather doubt it grew to to 526k today.
But seems to me there was a bunch of press in the UK earlier in the year
about growing murder rates with sharp implements. I think the idea was it
was getting so bad kitchen knives were going to be banned and everybody would
have to eat hamburger or mashed vegetables.
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: Julian Dunster
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Deer protection
Yes but, up in the great white north we often wonder what it is that they
are 'hunting'? The last stat I saw suggests a murder a minute in the US is
not unusual.
jd
---- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Cullen" <dscottcul@xxxx.net>
To: "UK Tree Care" <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: Deer protection
So you don't all get the wrong idea, it is not at all like wandering around
the wild, wild west or downtown Basra or Falluja. Hunters use their guns
for hunting and aren't wandering the streets with them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Pryce Arboriculture
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Deer protection
The attitude to guns is a bit of an eye opener for anyone used to the UK.
I've seen pawnshops with a polite notice asking customers to unload
firearms
before bringing them in.
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