Thread: We need this guy to run the country.
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Old 01-06-2008, 22:48   #58
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Re: We need this guy to run the country.
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Originally Posted by Derek S View Post
Possibly because they have a far greater population. If you look at the crime rate per 100,000 population the UK crime level is far higher.

Have a quick skim through this link for various facts and figures.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2007/01...ime-in-us.html

*The usual disclaimers about how facts and figures can be spun to back up your argument apply*
You surely cannot be serious Derek, even if you take population size into account of 60,000,000 for the UK and 230,000,000 for the US its about a ratio of 4 to 1. The murder rate in the US in 2006 was 17,034, for the same period in Britain it was 765, that is just over 1% of the US total.

The link provided is hardly unbiased, if you look in the title it quotes being a supporter of the 2nd amendment, aka the gun lobby.I grant you in certain areas like burglary that is higher than in the US, but violent crime against the person is much higher over there. Have a look at these two links.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/page6.asp
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