friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-02-11 11:17 AM
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| 157. So why aren't England and Wales at the bottom of the Euro murder league? |
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Because murder rates aren't entirely congruous with gun laws and gun ownership, that's why.
Finland has the highest murder rate in the EU, and a high percentage of gun ownership- but its murder rate is only slightly higher
than that of Scotland, which shares the same strict gun laws as England and Wales. Switzerland has even more guns per capita than
Finland, but (IIRC) has a murder rate lower than the other four countries.
The US has a murder problem, and has had one for a long time. No honest person could or would deny this. It also has
a gun culture. Switzerland doesn't have much of a murder problem, and it has a gun culture as well.
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