30 days in the hole [WARNING-TOPIC DRIFT]

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199808251413.KAA12239@guru.ai.net> Fringe Ryder writes:

> In 1991, there were over 3000 gun deaths
> in London alone.  (And this info comes from the Sunday Times of Britain.)

I got a private copy and didn't realise it was also going to the list.

I'll keep it brief - a House of Commons Written Reply on 13 January 1997
gave the total for firearms-related deaths in the UK in 1995 as 259.

The corresponding figure for the USA is 36,671 - 141 times as many.

> Fringe
> '97 A4Q 2.8L stick
> (and NRA member)

Why am I not surprised, with information as distorted as that?

> (and AOPA member - funny, we get a LOT of U.K. student pilots in America
> due to UK regs.)

No - due to UK airspace restrictions and weather.  There are serious
concerns in Germany in particular about their lack of training in
European weather.

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