4X more violent.........you dumbass.
Little-Known Gun Fact 6
Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. 7 In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. 8In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. Do we really want to be more like the UK? 9The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. 10 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU. 11 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
I went through the link. The Harvard study made no such claim.
Here's a study.
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Gun crime is more prevalent in the US than in other rich countries
And that stat doesn't matter......do their criminals pull the triggers on their guns? That is the difference.
Gun control laws don't eliminate all gun crime. No one ever claimed it does. But gun crime in every jurisdiction where guns are strictly controlled is substantially lower than in the US.
Canada has basically banned handguns for those without good reason to carry a gun. It doesn't eliminate gun violence but it does keep "good guys with guns" from getting shot because the only good guys with guns are cops.
Hunting is still a much loved sport in Canada and our gun laws respect that, but all large magazine automatic weapons are banned, along with handguns.
Nothing will ever totally eliminate gun violence, but the level of gun violence, from armed robbery to suicide and tragic accidental shootings is substantially reduced.
Wrong...the culture in those countries is different than in our inner cities......for you to be correct the gun crime and gun murder rate would have to go down after they enacted gun control on law abiding citizens.......the gun crime and the gun murder rates did not go down, in fact, in Britain they are going up, and dittos Australia
You guys think that normal people are shooting people and you base those crime stats on that, not on the behavior of criminals around the world......not all criminals commit murder as easily as American criminals do.
Normal people shoot normal people every day of the week. Every day husbands kill wives. Wives kill husbands. Domestic disturbance turns deadly is so common it's a cliche. Every day in American, three children are shot - mostly by accident, far too often by siblings or other family members. Contrary to common belief, overwhelmingly, most shootings and murders are white on white murders 75% of them.
Anyone who would intentionally kill another person is by definition, a criminal but the notion that only criminals kill other criminals but the lie to the notion that guns save lives. If honest civilians are only shooting themselves and their spouses, why would an honest person have need of defending themselves?