Gun crime is increasing in Britain......they can't stop it.
Is gun crime higher or lower in Britain?
The next question would be about the murder rate.
Then you bring up that Canadian border vs northern U.S. states thing.
Gun crime is going up in Britain, it is going down in the United States.
Gun murder is going up in Britain but it was always lower than the U.S. ......but all murder types in the U.S. are higher than the total murder rate in Britain...but as more Americans own and carry guns, our gun murder rate went down 49%
Canada has an increasing gun crime rate...while our gun crime rate is going down.....and the border....?
Borderland Homicides Show Mexico's Gun Control Has Failed | Ryan McMaken
What About the Canada-US Border?
Do we see similar issues along the Canadian-US border?
As I noted in this article, American states near the northern US border tend to have low homicide rates with states like Idaho, Oregon, New Hampshire, and Maine reporting remarkably low homicide rates that are similar too or even lower than Canadian homicide rates.
Using the same color coding as the previous maps (and the same data source), we see that, with the exception of Michigan (i.e., Detroit) the US-Canada border is marked by homicide rates all below 5 per 100,000:
Source: OECD. Map by Ryan McMaken
Of course, the situation in the Canadian border is immensely different from the situation on the Mexican border in terms of ethnicity, income levels, and climate. Crossing the northern border, however, brings nowhere near the sorts of changes in crime that are encountered on the southern side.
Nevertheless, part of this might be attributed to the fact that Canada is far more gun-friendly than Mexico. There is certainly more than one gun store in Canada (to say the least), and it is estimated by the Small Arms Survey that Canada has twice as many guns per capita as Mexico, with 30 per 100 persons.
I think we're talking past each other in regards to "gun crime going up".
Here is my logic:
Country A bans all guns and has 3 gun murders per 100,000,000 people in 2025
Country B allows all semi-autos and has 57 gun murders per 100,000,000 ppl in 2025
In 2026 their laws stay the same.
Country A bans all guns and has 5 gun murders per 100,000,000 people in 2026
Country B allows all semi-autos and has 56 gun murders per 100,000,000 ppl in 2026
You sure can say gun murders are going are going up in Country A despite their gun ban and be 100% telling the truth. IMO its a logical failing though because of the difference in their murder rates.
That part about the northern border is extremely interesting though!