“Most of Europe”? Really? I have had a car broken into in Manhattan (once) and
in Barcelona (once). Never in any other country.
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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> On 07 Jan 2017, at 08:21, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Almost enirely concentrated in sections of Chicago, Houston and Baltimore.
> Take those three locations out of the mix and you discover that the gun
> crime rate is near zero. But that doesn't seem to matter as it doesn't fit
> your agenda or bias.
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> So be it. Unlike most of Europe, my vehicles don't get broken into and
> everything stolen out of them that isn't welded down.
>
> That said, just a few miles from Moose's house, our company has
> telecommunications equipment at a location so dangerous that we don't show
> up anytime after dark and never without armed guards or police escort.
>
> AG
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> On Saturday, January 7, 2017, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On a per capita basis, thus correcting for population size differences,
>> the USA has by far the highest rate of gun homicides and gun deaths in
>> general:
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>> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/
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>> Three times that of the nearest “competititor”, Finland (where the
>> relatively high rate is driven by suicides).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
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>> YNWA
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>>> On 07 Jan 2017, at 07:18, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
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>>> Consider that it may not be that you northerners are less prone to
>> violence, but, at least in part, that there are so few of you. The US
>> population is about 9 times that of Canada, so any direct comparison of
>> absolute numbers of anything is meaningless.
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