Using Sweden as an example to argue high rape incidence is ridiculous because Sweden classes things as rape that are not counted as rape in any other country in the world. See also: Julian Assange, aka the trouble of travelling unprotected in Sweden.
Check out the statistics on Australia pre and post the gun laws.
And if you have nothing better to do, a nice bit of reading on the trouble with flatly comparing the crime figures from various countries:
> the trouble with flatly comparing the crime figures from various countries
Hey, I'm with you on that one - I only mentioned a couple specific countries in response to you bringing the subject up as if it meant something important.
It only takes one counterexample to disprove a rule. If you meant to say "try living somewhere in the EU...but not the UK", you should have said that.
> Check out the statistics on Australia pre and post the gun laws.
Yeah, not so much. This is a fine example of seeing what you want to see in the data, rather than what's actually there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Conte...
> the trouble with flatly comparing the crime figures from various countries
Hey, I'm with you on that one - I only mentioned a couple specific countries in response to you bringing the subject up as if it meant something important.