[lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:27:47 +0100
We've discussed this before. The usual comparative figures for
violent
crime include, e.g., theft of a bicycle, and theft of money in
the street. When those
are included, the UK is indeed more violent than the US. I'll
find my post that
explains all this, meanwhile I'll quote a comment on the blog to
which you link
"
Is 23 violent crimes per 1,000 "an astonishing figure when
compared to the US data" as the author claims? According to
National Crime Victimization Survey data posted on the US
Department of Justice Website there were 21 violent crimes per
1,000 in the US. Go back to 1994 and it's 51.2 violent crimes per
1,000 in the US.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/gla.../ viortrdtab.htm"
2 (immediately above it)"In England, the citizens are hard
pressed to protect themselves, unless they practice martial arts
continuously or secretly carry weapons. Citizens defying the law
and carrying weapons are scarce excluding criminals, so criminals
are more brazen and attack the unprotected. Therefore, it
followis that violent crime statistics are higher in England then
in the U.S. "
I walk here without fear with no weapons. I've lived in Cardiff
for 6 years or so now, during that time, there's been, in my
extended inner-city suburb neighbourhood, one possibly suspicious
death (in fact, he'd collapsed while jogging, but the police
doorstepped us all while that was being investigated), one rape
(a young woman who'd walked all the way home from a night club in
the city, drunk (again we were all doorstepped, there was a
massive police poster campaign, the man's now in gaol), and an
awful lot of pickpocketing (aka "violent crime").
Halloween, twice, I've managed to let the rather dodgy front door
Yale lock slip and the house has been wide open for hours.
Nothing happened.
I'm a Londoner so I do lock everything up when I go out and
secure the place at night.
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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