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   From: nospam@anytime.com   
      
   "Bill Smith"  wrote in message   
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   >>How it seems to you doesn't really matter - do a comparable study that   
   >>produces correlations and get it published   
   >>   
   > This is a map of my town. It shows where the murders take place. In   
   > the corridor between I 580 and I 880 is where the lower socio-econimc   
   > groups live. The unempolyed and uneducated live here. It's where the   
   > drug dealers and gangs do business. What is it, do you suppose,   
   > happens as you travel north east past I 580. Does gun availibility   
   > change in some fashion?   
      
   It's your research - you'll have to do it yourself. However you'll find the   
   same socio-economic variation in towns and cities in almost every country on   
   the planet. Trying to blame the relatively high US homicide rate on specific   
   groups is pointless because every country has such groups.   
      
   > There are probably far more guns in the north   
   > eastern part of town than the southwest because the middle and upper   
   > middle class owns the vast majority of them in the US.   
   >   
   > With only 18 countries represented, your "study" proves nothing at all   
   > meaningful about gun violence in the US.   
      
   It didn't try to prove anything about differences in gun violence within the   
   US - it addressed the difference in homicide and suicide between countries   
   in relation to the availability of firearms in those countries.   
      
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