From tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!news.ingr.com!baggins.dazixco.ingr.com!hound.edaca.ingr.com!crphilli Wed Dec 22 13:29:21 1993 Path: tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!news.ingr.com!baggins.dazixco.ingr.com!hound.edaca.ingr.com!crphilli From: crphilli@hound.edaca.ingr.com (Ron Phillips) Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns Subject: Re: Missing 45% Date: 21 Dec 1993 23:20:36 GMT Organization: "Intergraph Electronics, Mountain View, CA" Lines: 34 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <2f80c4$pk1@baggins.dazixco.ingr.com> References: <2f58b1$o07@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Reply-To: crphilli@hound.edaca.ingr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hound.dazixco.ingr.com In article <2f58b1$o07@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, psionic@wam.umd.edu (Billy Gerrent) writes: |> |> Also to the issue of cross-cultural comparisions (ie. Britain only has 22 |> firearms homicides last year vs. United States). I've always wondered why those posters from the UK always insist on comparing England with the U.S. rather than comparing England with Scotland: 1987 1988 Scotland Population: 5,112,129 5,094,001 Homicides: 508 510* Homicide Rate: 9.9 per 100K 10.0 per 100K *excludes Pan Am 103 bombing 1987 1988 England & Wales: Population: 49,923,500 50,424,900 Homicides: 981 992 Homicide Rate: 2 per 100K 1.97 per 100K Why, on such a tiny isle, is Scotland's rate 5 times that of England & Wales? -- ************************************************************** * Ron Phillips crphilli@hound.edaca.ingr.com * * Senior Customer Engineer * * Intergraph Electronics * * 381 East Evelyn Avenue VOICE: (415) 691-6473 * * Mountain View, CA 94041 FAX: (415) 691-0350 * **************************************************************