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gwyl Wrote: Dec 16, 2012 10:14 AM
The relevant facts are the overall homocide and assault rates and whether those crimes have gone up or down since certain legislation was introduced.
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ayrshireman Wrote: Dec 15, 2012 11:17 AM
The UK is a fifth of the US pop, but as ghuber pointed out, you have 40 TIMES the use of guns in crime, and the UK gun death rate is 900 a year. The US murder rate with a gun alone is 15000. Even if the UK was 300m people, our death number by gun would be 4500. 30% of the US number.
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torr593 Wrote: Dec 15, 2012 8:13 AM
Imagine that....a country with more people having more gun crimes...wow...how amazing is that...
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Since NBC sportscaster Bob Costas gave us an anti-gun lecture two weeks ago during Sunday Night Football, we've heard a lot from progressives like Juan Williams, Bob Beckel and anti-gun advocacy groups about how countries in Europe with strict gun control laws don't have problems with gun crime. We've also heard the reason the United States has a "gun crime problem" is because we allow citizens to own handguns however, the numbers on violent crime committed using a gun tell a different story.
New data out from the UK, where guns are banned, shows gun crime has soared by...
Gun Crime Soars in England Where Guns Are Banned