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Thread #155297   Message #3664881
Posted By: GUEST,Troubadour
30-Sep-14 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone defend US gun law?
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone defend US gun law?
""When I look at your list of killers I think per population you are as bad or worse than the US. I agree we need laws that make sense but I will keep my 2nd admendment thanks""

Sorry to piss on your picnic Dan, but the real facts are as follows:

-snip- "In England and Wales, the murder rate has dropped by eight per cent to 1.04 per 100,000 population since 1995.
In Scotland, the rate has dropped by 19 per cent to 1.8 per 100,000 population and in Northern Ireland it has fallen by 61 per cent to 1.4, according to the data.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2760631/Murder-rate-global-violence-hotspots-plunges-40-15-years-policing-improves.html#ixzz3Er0pBrHZ
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USA 2012
All homicides
·        Number of deaths: 16,238
·        Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.2
Firearm homicides
·        Number of deaths: 11,068
·        Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.6 " -snip-

From which, you will note that our total murders are two and a half times fewer than your gun murders, and nearly four times fewer than YOUR total.

By April 2013 the homicides in the US outnumbered the dead of 9/11, a rate of about 30 per day.

WE put that difference down to the fact that only trained firearms officers are allowed to use hand guns in the UK.

Watching US cop documentaries and seeing officers emptying their weapons with rapid fire and failing to score a hit on their target (not by any means a rare occurrence), we get some sense of the likely effect of John Doe being allowed to carry.

I wouldn't feel safe anywhere within range, even behind him, and if I were black, I wouldn't want to be in the same County.