| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Value and so on.... |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:05:35 -0400 |
>You tell me, why does it work in Switzerland, and not in the USA?
The pattern of Switzerland does work in America in the rural areas, which
surprise, surprise, have the least regualtions on firearms. Look at the
most rural counties in America and the most urban ones.
Doesn't even need to be counties that are all the different. In my
county, we average a murder every 3 years, while just across the border in
New Hampshire's Coos county, they have about three a year. The economics
are pretty much the same. The tax rates are similiar. So are population
density, cultural demographics, unemployment, alcohal sales, drug arrests,
(actually, they are higher on my side of the river), etc, etc, etc. It is
even the same water table. Vemont has two gun laws (sound suppressor,
although that is Fish and Game not Criminal law, and a restriction on carry
in state buildings, hospitals and schools). New Hampshire has about ten
times more.
I'm not saying that there is a causal relationship, simply becuase there
has been no scientific study funded to do so. Statisticians are paid to
prove a theory, not to do empirical research, so those that can afford to
spend moeny on research get thier choice over what research gets done.
CyberRaven
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"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
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