Brain357
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And the rate is many times higher than it should be.For the same link:In this century, 25 U.K. officers died in the line of duty. The figure for the U.S.—2,445—is nearly 100 times that. Adjusting for numbers of officers, U.S. deaths are still 10 times higher.Our homicide rates are 4-5x higher than countries with strong gun control. Law enforcement is shot at an alarming rate.
there are 790000 full time cops in the country and last year 52 were killed in firearm related events
That's .0065% of cops that were killed in a firearm related event
That is hardly "alarming"
https://psmag.com/news/cops-killing-and-being-killed
What are the percentages as compared to the total number of cops?
Now this is where you get disingenuous because not all line of duty deaths are gun related
Out of the 144 cops killed in the line of duty in 2018 only 52 were firearms related
But more civilians with guns, more cops getting killed. Since 2000, six U.K. cops have died from gunshots; in the U.S., 788. We have 11 times as many cops, but 130 times as many killed by guns. (The other two leading causes of police deaths are heart attacks and car accidents.)
Again
.0065% of US cops were killed in firearm related deaths in 2018
That is a ridiculously small percentage.
Like I said we have a criminal problem not a gun problem
.0027% of guns are used to commit murder
You have a 99.997% chance of not getting murdered by a person with a gun
If you're scared of getting murdered with a gun you have bigger problems