From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 20:43:36 MDT
Date sent: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: m <mt_2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: violence...
To: extropians@extropy.com
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>
>
> --- "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> wrote:
> > From: Bryan Moss <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com>
> > >I bet active hunters tend to live in areas that
> > have low incidences of
> > >criminal behaviour to begin with.
> >
> > Good bet. I'd also bet that areas with low
> > incidences of criminal behavior
> > have high incidences of active hunters to begin
> > with. First come the hunters
> > to new areas, then come the gun laws, then comes the
> > crime.
> >
The most obvious conclusion is that those areas which have
enough wilderness to allow hunting have a low incidence of people
in general.
>
> Considering what happenned in the Wild West and any
> number of remote places around the world (where there
> would be hunters) that doesn't stand up.
>
> After hunters, things tend to develop. Are none of the
> changes from hunting to an urban environment (where
> most of the crime is, at least in total) to be
> counted?
> It's just gun laws?
>
> Mike
>
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