Re: Promoting the NRA Book Shop

Carl Nisarel wrote:
Is túisce deoch ná scéal, "0:->" <pohaku.kane@xxxxxxxxx> rista:

Carl Nisarel wrote:
Is túisce deoch ná scéal, Jim Bianchi <jimbo@xxxxxxxxx>
rista:

no
evidence to show gun confiscation or banning has EVER had
any significant effect on violent crime rates (which, as far
as I can see, is the only rational justification for such an
action).
Canada's ban on handguns has been quite effective. The
violent gun crime rates in Canada is far below that of the
USA.
We know it has always been.

No, it hasn't "always been" far below.

It has ALWAYS been below. In 1996, according to:
http://www.canadianembassy.org/government/guncontrol-en.asp
total firearm deaths were 1,131 for a population of 30 million, while U.S. firearm deaths totalled 34,040 in a population of 290 million.

Using total populations, we get the following death rates:
Canada = 3.7 per 100,000 vs. US = 11.7 per 100,000

Therefore, the rate of firearm related deaths in Canada has ALWAYS been much lower than in the U.S.

But the real story is told in this nifty little graph published by the Australian government:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi115.html
that shows the overall Canadian violent crime rate was ALWAYS higher than in the U.S.

The same chart shows the violent crime rate is dropping - a claim also made by the Canadian Embassy report - but it's still higher than in the U.S., whose rate is also dropping.

...

Is the return on investment such that one can defend the cost.

The cost of handgun registration in Canada has been quite minimal. The cost/benefit ratio is quite good.

Again, this is more specious bull*** from Catl, the sheeple.

Either the gun registration program has cost each Canadian man, woman, and child $3.00 in taxes (at an estimated cost of $1 billion), or it has cost only the gun owners a whopping $434 each.

Or, if we accept the conclusion that it was solely due to the registration program that firearm deaths have dropped, we see that firearm homicides in Canada have dropped from 211 in 1996 to 184 in 2000, for a total drop of 27 firearm related homicides per year, for an absolutely unbelieveable cost per homicide prevented of $37 million EACH!
see also: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:_5hSWde399kJ:dsp-psd.tpsgc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-002-XIE/0090185-002-XIE.pdf+canadian+homicides&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V29F3285D

Either way, it's an outrageously expensive program for Canada with little benefit since the violent crime rate was ALREADY falling when the Canadian legislators put the gun registration program into place.

Tell ya what, Catl, old sheeple. FOAD!

Jeers,
Bama Brian
Libertarian

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