Re: England's getting odder.

"Bill Smith" <quandary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Nearly 50% of US homes re****t owning guns - the ability to shoot back is
>>more widespread than you think and not restricted to CCW.
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> Do you believe this is an even distribution throughout the country?

You want me to do research for you?You will have to do that yourself.

> As
> it happens the concentration is much higher in rural areas than
> cities. In areas such as rural Minnesota, where my in laws live, it's
> very nearly 100%.

The US is quite urbanised. The small pro****tion of the population that
lives 
in rural areas just cannot account for the 200 million plus guns in the
US. 
Only about 15% live in communities of less than 1000 people, and a tiny 
fraction of that live in rural isolation.

> How many of these 1822 stabbing victims had guns, and/0r CCLs?

I don't know - do some research or ask the original poster - he seemed to 
think gun owner****p conferred some benefit and presumably had some basis
for 
that belief. I merely pointed out that despite a much higher gun owner****p

rate in the US, it had a 25% higher knife murder rate than England and 
Wales, and a gun murder rate about 30 times higher. Any benefit from gun 
owner****p seems to be very subtle and well disguised.

>Did the stabbings occur in the home or outside it?

You will have to do your own research, but the idea that no stabbing
murder 
victim had access to a gun defies credulity given the number of guns in
the 
US.







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