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Originally Posted by smooth
I really don't understand the basis of your argument, mirevolver, but I think you should stop making it. I didn't take the time to suss out what you were trying to justify with your statistical "analysis" but I don't know of a single criminologist, who do such things for a living, who would argue that the US has disproportionate levels of violent crime compared to other western nations. In fact, it's one of the single most glaring issues we face in explaining.
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And are you implying that our disproportional violent crime rates are because of our gun policy? Are you saying that I should cease my side of the argument just because you personally can't think of anyone off hand that would see my point of view?
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Overall the total crime rate of the United States is similar to that of other highly developed countries. Reported property crime in the US is actually lower than in Germany or Canada, yet the American homicide rate in the United States is substantially higher. Interestingly enough, the overall violent crime rate in the United States was roughly half that of Canada, despite its homicide rate being 189.5% higher
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Seems our violent crime rate isn't such a big difference after all.
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Last edited by mirevolver; 04-17-2007 at 05:09 PM..
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