Should we Ban Guns?

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Kasz216 said:

brendude13 said:

I mentioned to my friend today that Sweden was in 4th in the world when it came to violent crimes. He also mentioned they have a high rate of rapes and said it's because each time somebody is raped, even if it's by the same person, it is counted separately. So if a woman claims that her husband had raped her every day for the past year, that would go down as 365 incidents of rape.

I say those statistics are completely broken and are dependent on how a country defines what crimes are violent crimes and how they count them. You're right, this is about homicides, not violent crime. I'd rather be bruised and beaten in a bar fight than dead.

Actualy that hasn't been true in a while.  These numbers treated all cases the same.

Sweeden just naturally has more rape... as can be seen here.

http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/#.URPjxGf0-f8

http://www.thelocal.se/19124/20090428/#.URPk52f0-f8

(Two differnet articles from the same sweedish newspaper.)

Also you know... that wouldn't explain the extra... 1,000 violent crimes.  Rape is such a small number it's barely a factor.

It's the real reason why Sweeden went after Julian Assange.

Additionally it's 46 per 100,000.  So Rape isn't largely effecting the number.

I didn't say rape accounted for the extra 1,000 violent crimes, I was just using it as an example of how what is defined as a violent crime and how it is counted varies from country to country.

I find it hard to believe that Sweden is a more dangerous place to live in than the US, let alone half as dangerous. The same applies to the other 5 or so countries that seemed far too high on that list.