"Josepi" wrote in message ...

Sorry, You are bending the stats badly to indicate a false positive for
your killing instincts.

"Killing instincts"? LOL, that's a bit Drama Queen, isn't it?

Brazil's murder rate today is 22 per 100,000 people, down from 26.7/100,000
a decade ago. Over the same period of time the murder rate in the United
States has declined from 5.5/100,000 to 5/100,000.

Please indicate where I am "bending the stats".

Brazil brought in some gun controls for a gun crazy population, out of
control in 2002. In 2003 the gun related deaths reduced by over 10%. I
can't find further stats for later years as the gun controls are tightened
up even more. The estimated gun population is about half are unregistered
and still illegal.

Lets compare apples with apples and look at gun population vs gun deaths,
not new regulations vs gun deaths.

When you can offer meaningful refutation of my claim that Brazil's murder
rate is four times that of the U.S., let us know.

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:03:00 -0800, DGDevin wrote:

Brazil's murder rate today is 22 per 100,000 people, down from
26.7/100,000 a decade ago. Over the same period of time the murder rate
in the United States has declined from 5.5/100,000 to 5/100,000.

Please indicate where I am "bending the stats".

"Josepi" seems to make up numbers as he goes along. I've finally learned
to ignore him.


--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message ...

"Josepi" seems to make up numbers as he goes along. I've finally learned
to ignore him.

Seems like a wise policy. Argumentative is fine, but at least be
interesting, you have to at least look like you're capable of scoring a
couple of goals.