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France Passes U.S. In Crime Rate
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France Passes U.S. In Crime Rate
Daily Policy Digest
Crime & Gun Control Issues / Comparing U.S. Crime with Other Countries
Monday, May 13, 2002
Seemingly protected by some of the stiffest gun restrictions in the world, Europeans have discovered recently they are not immune from mass killings in which guns are employed. No longer are such incidents confined to supposedly gun-toting America.
Recent mass killings -- often with politicians as the targets -- have left at least 46 dead in Germany, France, Switzerland and Hungary. In addition, assassinations in the Netherlands and Italy left two politicians dead.
Although overall crime has risen very slightly in the last decade in western Europe, criminals have become more aggressive.
Last year, in two surveys using different criteria, France surpassed the U.S. in crimes per capita.
In homicides, however, France's per capita rate is still one-eighth that of the U.S., experts report.
For 1997 through 1999, Sweden had the highest per capita homicide rate in Europe, at 1.94 per 100,000 population, and Germany had the lowest, at 1.28 -- compared to the U.S., at 6.26.
Stricter French gun laws have slashed legal sales to 100,000 now from 300,000 a decade ago.
Switzerland has the loosest gun laws -- requiring a permit to buy a gun from a shop, or a simple written contract for a private sale. Britain outlawed pistols in 1997.
Source: Donald G. McNeil Jr., "Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans," New York Times, May 11, 2002.
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/cri/2002/pd051302d.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Daily Policy Digest
Crime & Gun Control Issues / Comparing U.S. Crime with Other Countries
Monday, May 13, 2002
Seemingly protected by some of the stiffest gun restrictions in the world, Europeans have discovered recently they are not immune from mass killings in which guns are employed. No longer are such incidents confined to supposedly gun-toting America.
Recent mass killings -- often with politicians as the targets -- have left at least 46 dead in Germany, France, Switzerland and Hungary. In addition, assassinations in the Netherlands and Italy left two politicians dead.
Although overall crime has risen very slightly in the last decade in western Europe, criminals have become more aggressive.
Last year, in two surveys using different criteria, France surpassed the U.S. in crimes per capita.
In homicides, however, France's per capita rate is still one-eighth that of the U.S., experts report.
For 1997 through 1999, Sweden had the highest per capita homicide rate in Europe, at 1.94 per 100,000 population, and Germany had the lowest, at 1.28 -- compared to the U.S., at 6.26.
Stricter French gun laws have slashed legal sales to 100,000 now from 300,000 a decade ago.
Switzerland has the loosest gun laws -- requiring a permit to buy a gun from a shop, or a simple written contract for a private sale. Britain outlawed pistols in 1997.
Source: Donald G. McNeil Jr., "Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans," New York Times, May 11, 2002.
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/cri/2002/pd051302d.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878