re gun control was re we re mad as hell at the tv news in article c tm h ecf magpie linknet com manes magpie linknet com steve manes writes you are betraying your lack of understanding about rate versus total number rates are expressed often as population therefore if a place had deaths and a population of the rate would be a place that had deaths and a population of would hav a rate of the former has a higher rate the latter a higher total you are less likely to die in the latter simple enuff for chrissakes take out your calculator and work out the numbers here i ve preformatted them for you to make it easier handgun homicides population switzerland uk and then tell me again how switzerland is safer with a more liberal handgun law than the uk is without by rate or total number your choice because there are about homicides total i e using guns knives tire irons baseball bats bare hands etc in switzerland each year and homicides total in england that s three times worse per capita in england than in switzerland since dead is dead it really doesn t matter that of the switz murders involved a gun or that only of the english murderers do frank crary cu boulder
