Here Comes The Rest of The World

[Mannix]

Gun crime is extremely rare in Britain, and handguns are completely illegal. The ban is so strictly enforced that Britain’s Olympic pistol shooting team is barred from practicing in its own country.

Britain’s 46 homicides involving firearms was the lowest total since the late 1980s. New York City, with 8 million people compared to 53 million in England and Wales, recorded at least 579 homicides last year.

Ah yes, but they don't mention the fact that besides rape and murder London has higher crime rates than New York city. In fact the first gun legislation that was passed in New York a decade before the first one in London. This is also only including gun related homicides, and Americans have more guns, because they are legal.

So if you compare London and New York's homicide rate, New York's is only 6 times that of London(Though historically it's been that way since before the first gun restrictions were put in place). Though, interestingly enough, you are more likely to be mugged on the streets of London than the streets of New York.

Kind of funny how the anti-gunners like to pick and choose their statistics.

 

[jrou111]

Yay socialism!

Just ignore any truth and be like the rest of us

 

[rickomatic]

Quite frankly, this CITIZEN could care less about the opinion of some SUBJECT from Europe.

 

[G36-UK]

I've posted two new opinions on my blog.

This one was written yesterday.

I wrote this one when I saw the Brady response.

Anyone mind giving some constructive criticism?

 

[torpid]

Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera's main story on the shootings was an opinion piece entitled "Guns at the Supermarket" - a critical view of the U.S. gun lobby and the ease with which guns can be purchased. State-run RAI radio also discussed at length what it said were lax standards for gun ownership in the United States.

"The latest attack on a U.S. campus will shake up America, maybe it will provoke more vigorous reactions than in the past, but it won't change the culture of a country that has the notion of self-defense imprinted on its DNA and which considers the right of having guns inalienable," Corriere wrote in its front-page story.

A country with the notion of self-defense imprinted on its DNA and which considers the right of having guns inalienable?

Yes, please.

 

[CGT]

Britain’s 46 homicides involving firearms was the lowest total since the late 1980s. New York City, with 8 million people compared to 53 million in England and Wales, recorded at least 579 homicides last year.

It's interesting that they point out 46 homicides involving firearms in Britain, but only 579 homicides in New York City. I wonder if all these homicides they are referring to in New York were commited with firearms?

 

[ryan in maine]

I was going to post this myself if you hadn't beat me to the punch.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous. none of these "world leaders" have the intelligence to factor in anything beyond "the number bone's connected to the... gun bone".

none of them want to engage in a debate of law-abiding US firearms owners and law-abiding US CCW holders. they only want to disarm the lawful element by focusing on the criminal element.

I don't know if I will ever in my lifetime make sense of it.

 

[LAK]

Inevitable. Join the "global community" - and expect to be assimilated. If we do not detach ourselves from the U.N. and all this global nonsense it will swallow us whole.

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[jeepmor]

Dear World:

We have had to bail all your sorry butts out of various jambs for more than 100 years. The relative peace and prosperity you are now enjoying is courtesy of the USA.

If you want to tell us how we ought to do things here, first spend the next hundred years earning that privilege.

For now, y’all shut the hell up!

Well put and thanks.

I'd be interested to know if this guy was on some "anti-depressant" of some sort. There seems to be a correlation with these drugs and this type of shooting.

 

[CGT]

It's interesting that they point out 46 homicides involving firearms in Britain, but only 579 homicides in New York City. I wonder if all these homicides they are referring to in New York were commited with firearms?

I was able to confirm that the 579 homicides in New York City is the TOTAL number of homicides. I still can't find out how many were commited with firearms.