Winter of Our Discontent

made glorious summer one step at a time

Jul 3, 2009 1:53pm
hilker: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online and britain has a strict firearms ban. weird. I’m anti gun-control, but the firearms point you’re bringing up is actually hurt by this infographic.  The U.S. has lower violent crime rates than the UK but higher homicide rates.  That means that although the U.S. has fewer crimes, each crime is much deadlier.  Do guns have an effect?  Probably.  After all, most burglaries don’t involve guns, but I bet the vast majority of ones that end in homicide do.

hilker:

The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online

and britain has a strict firearms ban. weird.

I’m anti gun-control, but the firearms point you’re bringing up is actually hurt by this infographic.  The U.S. has lower violent crime rates than the UK but higher homicide rates.  That means that although the U.S. has fewer crimes, each crime is much deadlier.  Do guns have an effect?  Probably.  After all, most burglaries don’t involve guns, but I bet the vast majority of ones that end in homicide do.
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