Comment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chaz

The numbers show nothing of the kind. The murder (not homicide) rate in the U.K. is much much lower than here in the USA. While it is true that most murders in the U.K. are committed with knives or blunt force instruments, it is not true that the murder rate is higher than the USA. It is not even close to the murder rate in the USA. I have lived in both countries and a Iguarantee you it’s not even close. There were just 619 murders in all of the U.K. last year, a country of 62,2181761 people. The USA had 16,799 in a country with 313,739,857. So there are 27.138 times as many murder (not homicides, I only looked up murders FBI stats., CDC Stats, CIA World Factbook Stats)
and yet the population of the USA is only 5.042 times as large. For the USA to have the same murder rate as the U.K. there would need to be just 3,120 murders a year not 16,799. That makes the USA’s murder rate 538% higher than the U.K.’s Sorry you don’t like the facts, but there they are. It is not an agenda, it is the truth. remember I am not including any homicide numbers just murders. As you rightly pointed out, there is such a thing as “Justifiable Homicide” i.e. self defense. This does not include those numbers.