Posted on 01/12/2005 1:57:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv
No one seems to question glaring inconsistencies between the study's findings and its clear but not-quite-stated conclusions. For instance, of the nations surveyed, Israel had the lowest female homicide rate. Yet it is common knowledge that Israel has a higher gun ownership rate than America... The Swiss, New Zealanders and Finns all own guns as frequently as Americans, yet in 1995 Switzerland had a murder rate 40 percent lower than Germany's, and New Zealand had one lower than Australia's." ... Over a twenty-year period, firearms almost doubled while the homicide rate fell by 10 percent... Women should be frightened by the high murder rate because they need to take self-defense into their own hands, including a gun if they so choose... Ivy-covered academics should take a lesson from real women acting on the grassroots level: We won't be frightened into surrendering our right to self-defense. Don't slant the stats. Give us the facts and we'll decide for ourselves.
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