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From: john.nieder@tigerteam.org (JOHN NIEDER)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: US Murder Rate Trivial
Date: 15 Jan 1994 08:41:05 GMT
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 -=> Quoting Steve Kao to All <=-

 SK> Gennady Feygin (gfeygin@unicorn.eecg.toronto.edu) wrote:
 > Because in order to affect the illegal gun supply, ban
 > has to be country wide.
 > Otherwise it is of no consequence.

 SK> Please explain why country wide bans in Jamaica and Mexico have
 SK> resulted in murder and violent crime rates rivaling Washington DC, New
 SK> York City, and Detroit.

I just got _new_ information specifically on Jamaica today:  They now
top _El Salvador_ in murders:  Approximately 44 per 100,000 population.

For additional reference, the UN's '89 figures:

Country        Homicide rate, /100k/year

El Salvador        40.4
Columbia           37.4
Mexico             19.9
Bahamas            15.1
Puerto Rico        17.5
Brazil             14.8
Venezuela          12.9
Ecuador            10.1
United States       8.5

(UN Demographic Yearbook, 1989)

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