On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:20:30 -0300, Shadow wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:30:13 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 12/19/2019 12:25 PM, Bod wrote:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/19/at-le...home-11935707/
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-...3c84eee049646e
You need more guns, bigger guns and more lax gun laws....yeah, that's
the answer, more guns. That'll stop em!.......not.
Better than a knife
Great argument. 3 stabbings in a city the size of London. And
it even made the headlines!!!!
Care to project what the numbers would be if all the
sociopaths had access to guns?
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From Euronews.com June 18, 2019:
There were 17,284 homicides in the US in 2017, giving a rate of 5.3
per 100,000. In Britain, there were 785 in financial year 2017/18
the nearest equivalent time period giving a rate of 1.8 per 100,000,
some three times lower.
Within this, there were 285 knife murders in England and Wales in
2017/18 the highest number since the Second World War and 34 in
Scotland, giving a combined British rate of 0.48 per 100,000. In the
US, the number for 2017 was 1,591, giving an almost identical rate of
0.49. So even amid a spike in British knife crime, Americans as a
whole are at least as likely as to die from a stabbing.
More recent police data is available for both cities, including a
direct comparison for the calendar year 2018. The official estimated
population of New York was 8,398,748 at July 1, 2018, and 9,006,352
for London.
The NYPD murder total for the year was 295 less than half the figure
for 2001 and a fraction of 2,200 victims counted in 1990 giving a
rate of 3.5 per 100,000. In London, there were 136, giving a rate of
1.5, so New York remains twice as deadly despite a successful
decades-long crime crackdown.
Within this, there were 76 homicides attributed to cutting or stabbing
in New York the exact same number as in London, according to data
from Murdermap. But New Yorks rate is slightly higher, at 0.9
compared to 0.8 in London. It means the Big Apple is still deadlier
for knife attacks, but the pattern of recent years suggests that could
be reversed very soon.