Re: guns ecology

From: Martin Ling (martin@nodezero.org.uk)
Date: Sat May 27 2000 - 15:48:11 MDT


On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 10:45:03PM +0100, scerir@libero.it wrote:
> The England and Canada murder rates were already low before their gun
> control laws were passed.
> Thus, their restrictive laws cannot be much credited with lowering their
> crime rates.
> Murder rates in England, Canada, and Japan have risen since passing their
> gun control laws.
> I have read that In England the gun crime rate is up 10.9% after the gun
> control law.
> I do not say (like ancient latins): ³post hoc, propter hoc²
> But this strange relation looks like the prey-predator pattern (Volterraıs
> equations, Rashevskyıs patterns).

I would be interested to see the sources of these statistics, before
this is (inevitably) discussed further.

Martin

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