Yesterday the Brits were all over me about how much lower there murder rate was because they have strict guns. Well, I looked up the stats. According to the FBI, in 2012 there were a total of about 14,000 homicides (including manslaughter) in the U.S. U.S. population was about 311 million. That works out to a total homicide rate of 45 per million population. However, also according to the FBI, about 75% of all murders are gang-related, mostly drug-running gangs. So the NON-GANG homicide rate was only about one-fourth the total rate, or about 11.5 homicides per million.
The number of murders (excluding manslaughters) in England and Wales (I could not find the total U.K. stats) was 644. The population of England and Wales was 56 million. So the MURDER rate in the U.K was--guess what?--11.5 per million. Now, this doesn't exclude gang-related murders. I'm sure they have them, but not to the extent we have them. On the other hand, it also doesn't include manslaughters, only murders. So the total homicide rate should be higher.
Well, isn't it funny that, when you dig down a little deeper, both countries have SIMILAR murder rates? True, the Brits have only about 50-60 murders with guns. But they seem just as violent as the U.S. But since they don't have guns, they use more poison, knives, clubs, hammers, broken bottles, or other lethal weapons.
The hypocrisy of the Brits is breathtaking!
I pulled an all nighter doing these numbers. I also have to mention that the U.S. is five times larger so of course there are more murders. The Guardian News Paper had an Article on poor Peirce Morgan, the Brits were beating up on Alex Jones the radio show hos from Texas who met with Pierce Morgan another import who is not an American but wants to destroy our constitution went face to face with the limey. Morgan kept repeating how many gun deaths in England compared to America. Alex has already presented the gun deaths. What everyone missed is it is unfair to use gun related deaths and compare them to England which as I mentioned England and Wales( no stats for Scotland and Ireland) so there is X factor missing if included it, I would bet the numbers are larger. Ireland was a gun killing and bombings land in the 1960's until recently where they came a peace accord.
I would suggest for everyone to read "The Guardian New paper" the hate mongering Brits have shown their disdain for all Americans that want "liberty" we are madman according to one comment. The post was halted after some Americans tried to respond. I hope next time we can flood the Guardian with our logic. Some comments were removed. I wonder why?
Snotty Brits! This proves that guns don't kill people, people just use guns to kill other people. If you really want to kill someone, you don't need a gun, just the will.
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