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Gun death rates debate on Slashdot

I found quite a debate raging on SlashDot (geekswithguns.com was mentioned more than a few times). I find it funny that such a debate would go on in there because of the anti-gun stand their founders have made. Back in 1999 I asked for an interview with their founders, whom schooled in Holland, MI., about 10 miles south of my offices.



The returned email was pretty simplistic and to the point. “I hate guns”.





(more …) From the slashdot debate:


“Perhaps we should prohibit the rest of the world from not owning guns — at least until we can trust them to maintain a decorus violent-crime statistic.





The International Crime Victims Survey, conducted by Leiden University in Holland, found that England and Wales ranked second overall in violent crime among industrialized nations.





Twenty-six percent of English citizens — roughly one-quarter of the population — have been victimized by violent crime. Australia led the list with more than 30 percent of its population victimized.





The United States didn’t even make the “top 10″ list of industrialized nations whose citizens were victimized by crime.





Jack Straw, the British home secretary, admitted that “levels of victimization are higher than in most comparable countries for most categories of crime.”





Highlights of the study indicated that:




* The percentage of the population that suffered “contact crime” in England and Wales was 3.6 percent, compared with 1.9 percent in the United States and 0.4 percent in Japan.


* Burglary rates in England and Wales were also among the highest recorded. Australia (3.9 percent) and Denmark (3.1 per cent) had higher rates of burglary with entry than England and Wales (2.8 percent). In the U.S., the rate was 2.6 percent, according to 1995 figures;


* “After Australia and England and Wales, the highest prevalence of crime was in Holland (25 percent), Sweden (25 percent) and Canada (24 percent). The United States, despite its high murder rate, was among the middle ranking countries with a 21 percent victimization rate,” the London Telegraph said.


* England and Wales also led in automobile thefts. More than 2.5 percent of the population had been victimized by car theft, followed by 2.1 percent in Australia and 1.9 percent in France. Again, the U.S. was not listed among the “top 10″ nations.


* The study found that Australia led in burglary rates, with nearly 4 percent of the population having been victimized by a burglary. Denmark was second with 3.1 percent; the U.S. was listed eighth at about 1.8 percent.”

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