Your right... I did just lift some toejamapidia "facts"
but we dont have , here in the UK, so many killings with guns per capita as USA so its a good thing we have gun control here , as far as i am concerned..
Now I see that in the USA there are so many guns you might as well arm yourself..everyone else has...
but thankfully we are not there in the UK yet,, thank the lord, and gun control..
Your right they are totally different places with different situations...but yes gun control works ..here in the UK
Knife crime is obviously an issue being 4x more prevalent than gun crime..
guns for show...knives for a pro..(name that film)
lifted some more "interweb Facts"
58 Murders a Year by Firearms in Britain, 8,775 in US
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
22 July 12
umber of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996
Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775
Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638
(Since Britain's population is 1/5 that of US, this is equivalent to 3,095 US murders)
Number of Murders by firearms, Britain, 2011*: 58
(equivalent to 290 US murders)
Number of Murders by crossbow in Britain, 2011*: 2 (sorry no axe numbers..crossbow will have to do )
(equivalent to 10 US murders).
For more on murder by firearms in Britain, see the BBC.
The international comparisons show conclusively that fewer gun owners per capita produce not only fewer murders by firearm, but fewer murders per capita overall. In the case of Britain, firearms murders are 30 times fewer than in the US per capita.