-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
At 09:50 AM 7/6/98 +1200, you wrote:
>>Guess what? gun ownership here in the US is a minority as well,
>>especially in the cities where crime is highest. Out here in the
rural
>>areas, like where I live, gun ownership is higher, and we have much
>>lower crime rates, even lower than most other countries. Where the
>>crime in the US is is in the cities, where the most restrictive gun
laws
>>are...interesting coincidence, eh?
>
>You're confusing causative agents with simple correlation. There
are so
>many possible reasons for the reduced crime rate in the rural areas
>(ranging from differences in lead ingestion and fluoride
concentration in
>drinking water, to population density, socioeconomic indexes, to
gun
>ownership) that it becomes almost impossible to ascribe a causative
>element to any one of them.
>
>I have yet to hear of any study which takes all other factors into
account
>to show a causative connection between gun ownership and reduced
>crime rates.
>
Chuck Kuecker
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0
Charset: noconv
iQA/AwUBNaFwln8LxS+5ljdtEQIAPQCfZXiExxUQbgtN6PQbbFBmMFESEJoAoKgJ
AJzfSVuLgwbyVpI7zSnvy7P2
=3EkL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Chuck Kuecker, President
C K Enterprises, Inc.
326 Deveron Circle
Cary, Il 60013
USA
(847) 639-2771
(847) 516-1410 FAX
ckuecker@mcs.net
www.mcs.net/~ckuecker/