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[Drsolly]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, der Mouse wrote:

> > Year 2003, 163 deaths from firearms in the UK.
> > Year 2003, 30126 deaths from firearms in the USA. 
> 
> Factor of 184+, hmm.  You wouldn't happen to have population figures
> for 2003 for the two countries?

US population = 300 million
UK population =  60 million

Factor of five.

So, gun deaths per million population is:

US - 100
UK - 3
 
> > You don't get it.  You can't "give the English their guns back".  I
> > never owned a gun, you can't give back what I never had.
> 
> I didn't write what you're responding to, but I don't think it was
> talking about individuals, but rather the people as a whole.
> 
> Now, if the English have never owned firearms individually on a large
> scale since they became definably English, you would have a point.  (I
> have no idea whether that's actually so or not.)

The English have never owned firearms individually on a large scale.

That's why you can't "give the English their guns back".