Comment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by hauntingthelibrary
Wait, what? Surely that is the question here. How would you make illegal guns less accessibly then?
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by hauntingthelibrary
Actually, the original comment was correct, the Wikipedia article was poorly titled. There are more guns in America per person, but some people have more than one gun or even many guns. Only around 45%...
View ArticleComment on New Year 2006/7 by fleshisgrass
I’m reading that again (it’s 6 years old or so) and thinking that I’d be more constructive if I were writing now. But it did bring back to me that the conversion was unsympathetic, and the fixtures and...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by James
Let me correct you. You are wrong. I am talking about murders only.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by James
Ken wins nothing. He did not give any web links at all. His argument is weak and false. I gave lots of web links, scroll back up and double check. Ken gave one (which he kept re-using) and which was in...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by James
Correction, he gave one weblink which he re-used
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by xrhino
Ranvir, my math comes out different: 39 fire-arm related homicides out of 550 total is 7% (which is not less than 1%). US number at 67% is correct. Still a huge anomaly, but given the different...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by John
It’s race. Over half the homicides are committed by blacks. This means that in certain areas like Chicago you get South African levels of murder. One more reason to stop migration from Africa to the UK...
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View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by DR
Check the number of people killed each year by drunk/impaired drivers. Illegal as DUI is, it happens and it claims innocent lives. Our cars go 120, 140, 160 MPH but, do we drive that fast? Most law...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Matt Hooper
I guess I must bring some sanity to this conversation. In the USA- if you remove BLACK INNER CITY drug related deaths from the Gun Violence statistics the USA has about as much crime as the Island of...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by fleshisgrass
You are wrongly hung up on skin tone Matt when in fact the only thing skin tone has to do with this is that historical injustices and imbalances in social capital perpetuate the over-representation of...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by fleshisgrass
DR, to echo your main point about criminalisation not preventing criminals, the idea of God is highly interpretive and varied – for example the amount of killing in the name of God is legendary, utter...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by fleshisgrass
If it is true that black people kill more than white people (and Joseph you simply assert that they do without bothering to refer us to any evidence) then the next question is obviously “Why?”. And...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by fleshisgrass
If you bring up race as a reason for a high homicide rate rather than, if anything, an associated circumstance which deserves sensitivity and further inquiry, you will be prevented from posting...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by Jim Partridge
I was visiting our Denver office from the UK when news of the school shooting at Newtown reached us. I was shocked by the reaction of my American co-workers. “That’s terrible, but it happens…” seemed...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by A Primer On Gun...
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View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by יצחק בּוזוף
The best figures to use for the USA are the FBI UCR (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011) 2011 figures are much lower (murder rates) and show the continual...
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