Deofuta said:
XJ-0461 said:
12 people killed by one madman with a gun.
You see, if we legalized guns over here, this sort of thing would happen much more frequently.
I don't know, I think that if someone indeed has the ability to do this sort of atrocious act, they will find a way to carry it out.
The thing is that, over here, people don't expect guns. Most sprees here involve knives. It's much harder to kill with a knife than a gun, so fewer people tend to die. Guns may only slightly increase the crime rate, but I think the bigger effect is increasing the death rate.
not_the_dm said:
... And I thought we lived in a civlised country.
Oh please. One man going insane does not render an entire nation uncivilised.
jdun said:
You do know that UK has one of the highest crime rate in the world. Much higher than ours.
Not True. [http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes] In terms of raw numbers you're above us. In per capita terms you're on 80/1000, we're on 85/1000. Hardly surprising. That is likely due to the higher amounts of petty crime like shoplifting, which is probably less prevalent in the US because all the shops have people with guns guarding them. Crime also has a much broader definition here.
In terms of murders, [http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita] however, you are far, far ahead of us. 0.04/1000 compared to 0.01/1000. I really do think that's because guns make it easy to kill.
