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- From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian Ross)
- Subject: Re: Crime in Canada vs U.S. Why the difference?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.234213.10896@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:42:13 GMT
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- todd@ceres.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Todd Law) writes:
- :
- : To start with,
- :
- : (1)
- : How about two-hundred-plus years of uncompensated slavery in the
- : US which has put many black Americans into a hole so deep that
- : many never get out of it, financially or psychologically.
- : I say racial friction, through no fault of the minorities themselves,
- : but through the majority that forced, then ignored a completely
- : inequitable situation for centuries, is a major cause of crime in
- : the US. Canada has racial tensions too, but several orders of
- : magnitude smaller.
-
- But only because our Aboriginal population is proportionally smaller.
- However, they experience the same intensity of racism as American
- minorities. It would be interesting to hear what Aboriginal,
- Asian and African Canadians have to say about this.
-
- : [other stuff deleted]
- :
- : (5)
- : Tighter gun laws meanining fewer guns to commit violent crimes with.
-
- This is probably the main factor.
-
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- Brian Ross
- bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca
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