And of course....gun crime is up in Britain...tommy......while our actual gun crime rate is going down....as more Americans own and carry guns...
We went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 16.3 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2017...guess what happened...
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gun murder down 49%
--gun crime down 75%
--violent crime down 72%
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
Yup - British school shootings this year - zero
British school shootings last year - zero
Its about 20 years since we had one. Its about 20 minutes since you had one.
You had one school shooting in Scotland before you banned guns....up till then, people owned guns and you didn't have any....then, you banned guns and you almost had two........pure dumb luck kept them from going forward, not your gun control laws.....I have already linked to those stories.......
Your gun crime rate is up 42% in London....up 23% across the country...how long do you think you can trust to dumb luck to stop your school shootings in the future, considering you almost had two since 2015.......?
Do you understand how skewed stats can look when they are MUCH LOWER than the U.S.?
if there were only 10 incidents the previous year, and they have 11 the next year you are talking about a 10% increase...
But if in another country like the U.S. that number is 1,000 incidents the previous year, it would take 100 more incidents the next year to equal the same percentage.
List the actual numbers of incidents, not percentages.