"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> > Not really; gun ownership doesn't deter crime if people can't carry those
Yet property crime is higher in the UK, as ar assaults. Not to mention that demographically,
the US is far far different from the UK. I'll bet if you compare states with similar
demographics to the UK you'll see much more closer comparison.
> > guns with them. Crooks may decide not to break into people's houses
> > because they might be armed, but that's not really a problem since they
> > can just wait until their victims are out on the streets and disarmed by
> > law.
> >
> Murder rates are higher in those US states which have a concealed
> carry law, where both citizen and criminal is more likely to be
> armed, than they are in the U.K., where both is less likely to be.
> > According to that DoJ report I posted a URL for, in some areas (assault
> > and property crimes) it has much higher crime levels than America; this
> > is probably one reason why the anti-gunners stick to murder rates. It's
> > possible the DoJ are fudging the figures to make America look better, but
> > they appear to have gone to some trouble to get accurate statistics by
> > looking both at official police reports and victim surveys... and they
> > would seem to have a vested interest in making it look worse to get more
> > funding.
> >
> Murder is the irreversible crime; it is the one which forever revokes
> one's right to life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness, as well
> as the one to keep and bear arms.
Thats right, but killing a criminal is not murder, and I'd much rather it were him and not me, and I'd much rather trust my protection to myself than to.... well since the government is not liable for protecting me, then I have no-one to trust but myself.
Mike Lorrey