Posted by: netaa_ji January 24, 2005
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I guess I'm more or less correct. By the way my data were not based on "armed conflict" in the US. The phrases " gun related crimes and incidents" and "armed conflict" bear two different meanings. The phrase "armed conflict" usually implies as a fight by organized combatant groups, armies,combat organizations (instutionally trained to combat) with the use of various types of weapons against opposing organized combat groups, armies or combat organizations. Where as ''gun related crimies and incidents" DOES NOT implies as an organized fight in the first place and are usually done by individually or very small group of individuals with firearms against another individual or against a very small group of individuals. The gun related casulties in the US is NOT happening in the times of civil war. 11000 or so casulties are happening in the peacetime. Isnt it possible that if the United States were to engulf itself into some sort of civil war, the casulties will go up far more dramaticaly. The figure of 11000 comes up despite the very strict law enforcement efforts and huge spending on law enforcement personnels and equipments against the gun related killings and incidents in the US Given the ready availibility of arms and ammo. as well as free lance killers all over the the US (forget about organized combat groups for a while). The figure will go not less 200 times.
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