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January 13, 2013, 04:56 AM | #1 | |
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UK crime statistics revealed as a "sham"
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I've run across other articles revealing just how bogus some claims by the UK correspondents in recent debates really are. I'll try to sort through those and add them later. |
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Your point. ? We can all put on statistics The United Kingdom has one of the lowest rates of gun homicides in the world with 0.07 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 inhabitants in 2009 compared to the United States' 3.0 (over 40 times higher) and to Germany's 0.21 (3 times higher).
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The almost non existent gun violence in the UK is touted as example to remove guns from the US.
Certain US media outlet are claiming low crime in the UK as a result of gun bans.
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Yes, the US citizens are being told that the UK and other countries are nearly crime free due to the ban on guns.
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And even those don't stand up to much scrutiny. So... rather than trying to discredit such unproductive statistics or the conclusions drawn from them, why does the pro-gun movement instead not try to dissuade such comparison in the first place. That would be far more effective at taking the wind out of anti-gun sails...
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January 13, 2013, 09:01 AM | #7 |
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Are you referring to the correspondents on TFL Rainbow?
As Pond says, comparing the two is a fruitless exercise. Like it or not gun crime is bloody rare in the UK, which means absolutely nothing for the US debate. Do not use the same intellectually dishonest methods as those who claim the UK's crime rates have any relationship to our gun laws. Surely it is better to point out that these comparisons are pretty pointless. |
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Comparing gun crime numbers from country to country is always pointless. It ignores the cultural factors.
For example, Japan has low crime rates because there is one main criminal enterprise and they keep the street crime low and the homicides under wraps to improve business with regular people. They have more people on the street policing than the police do by 100 times! ....and, yes they have guns! |
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Lower crime rate in Europe is a lie plain and simple.
The "violent crimes" is 3 times higher than what it is here. |
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Violent crimes in the UK are far more prevalent than the low number of gun murders suggest them to be. As mentioned on another thread knifings are fairly common in some areas. Would you rather be shot or beaten to death with an iron pipe? I've long heard that violent crime of all sorts rose steadily immediately after the ban on handguns took effect. Criminal gangs in the UK obtain firearms by circuitous routes, conversions of blank , tear gas, and airguns have been the choice for street gangs. Some US cities are virtual cesspools of violent crime, while other entire states have very little violent crime. The level of violence in those cities is not related to availability of legal guns, but it is directly related to the availability of illegal drugs. High crime levels resulted in the need for more legally owned firearms for self defense. In those cities where draconian gun laws prevent the private citizen from obtaining a gun legally crime runs rampant. In those cities where crime is pervasive and citizens can buy firearms they can at least make an attempt to defend themselves. |
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deaths per 100,000 population Northern Europe 1.5 1,432 Europe Southern Europe 1.4 1,669 Europe Western Europe 1.0 1,852 Northern America 3.9 13,558 Last edited by manta49; January 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM. |
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Sorry,
I didn't specify whether or not the data was true, I was only answering to the point of the OP. Thats what Americans are being told by media outlets. I don't know what the crime rates are in other countries, nor do I really don't care. I can assume that crime is high in Mexico because I hear things and see reports. Media in the US doesn't represent the population and has become increasingly difficult to find the truth. Therefore, many are seeking out information on their own. Every law enforcement officer I've ever talked to, want responsible responsible citizens armed. They encourage and endorse concealed carry programs. Why is that? One 30 year officer told me there were countless cases in which he felt an armed victim would have been saved. But yet, when someone gets on the air and says something like that, they are treated like a nut-job.
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That's not poor statistics or under reporting, it just classifying things in a way that the author of the article finds disingenuous. Personally, I think it's far more disingenuous for the author of the article to imply that there is far more violent gun crime with no proof other than, "well I don't like the way they classify things, by separating the violent gun crimes from the non-violent gun crimes" |
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One reason for the flawed data is the way they are recorded.
In the US this incident would have resulted in the recording of at the very least 4 violent crimes. In the UK it will only be recorded as one crime in their statistics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15803860 Furthermore why do we not see these statistics? http://www.ukcrimestats.com/Police_Forces/ Looks like 2012 was a busy year in violent crime in the UK to me. Furthermore the US media has a lot to gain by bloating US crime statistics for the sake of the drama to push gun control legislation. One thing is for sure that the crime rate for rape is higher in the UK than in any developed country. Explain this? Last edited by Come and take it.; January 13, 2013 at 01:33 PM. |
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Rainbow - the link between UK handgun legislation and any change in crime rates is a false one. They may have happened around the same time, but there is no causation there. This is obvious to people familiar with the historical shooting culture and the criminal culture in British cities. The guns that were banned were not kept for home or self defence, they were sporting guns and would never have threatened the people who commit crime, with the possible exception of people burgling farmhouses. Firearms were and are stored locked away, with ammo separate, not for ready use. Changes in crime rates can be explained by other factors, societal, demographic, economic factors.
As sigcurious points out, it isn't a case of under reporting, just of different criteria. Perfectly reasonable criteria, too. Edit - I would add that as far as I know, violent offences committed with air guns count towards the gun crime count in the UK, so maybe it goes both ways. |
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Could it be due to very few who kept guns for defense of the home actually turning theirs in? I can remember several articles on gun turn in amnesties in the UK where the huge piles of handguns and other weapons turned in included many military handguns often war souveniers, and more than a few SMGs, the MP40 being the most commonly found in those piles. How well did strict gun laws work in keeping automatic weapons out of the hands of the IRA? Why is the murder rate in the British Virgin Islands four times as high as in the USA? Immediately after the UK banned handguns gun related crime rose by 40%. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1440764.stm Quote:
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No, because to keep firearms for the purpose of defence has been illegal in Britain since the late 1940's. Forgive me, I forget the exact year, but I assure you as long as myself and either of my parents have been alive, it has been a crime to keep a gun for home defence. This is reflects the culture.
I am sure there were plenty of war bring-backs, they still pop up from time to time, even a few .45s taken in the South Atlantic in 1982. None of this changes that to link changes in violent crime rates with gun laws in this country is unsupportable. I am not arguing for gun laws here, you are missing the point. The IRA got their weapons largely from the USA in the early days, then later from Libya and contacts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - that was a war and has minimal relevance here. Edit - the stats regarding rates in areas with high/low legal gun ownership are simply because gun crime is an inner city problem, legal gun ownership is broadly a rural pursuit in the UK. Last edited by Scouse; January 13, 2013 at 03:25 PM. |
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The IRA's main gun runner in the USA was George Harrison, an IRA veteran, resident in New York since 1938. Harrison bought guns for the IRA from a Corsican arms dealer named George de Meo, who had connections in organised crime. Joe Cahill acted as the contact between NORAID and Harrison. In 1971, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had already seized 700 modern weapons from the IRA, including 2 tonnes of high explosive and 157,000 rounds of ammunition, most of which were US made. PS You did ask. Quote:
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The increase goes back further than the more recent banns.
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The Scots and Irish are less of a problem for the UK than the thousands of criminals hiding amongst the twelve million illegal aliens residing in this country. |
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Sorry Rainbow, I might just be being thick but I don't get the point you are making with that last one, could you explain?
Also, the Scots and the Irish are not "a problem for the UK." The Scots are of the UK, as are many people who live in Ireland. |
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If that is supposed to be an arguement against gun control, then the US should legalise concaine and heroine because laws against that are not doing much. Quote:
Are you taking an off-shore territory with a population of 23,000, to the mainland UK's 59 million, as a basis for your arguement? That is like me taking statistics for the Aleutians on a given subject and judging the whole US by them... Really. Be honest. What are you hoping to prove by trying to discredit UK stats one way or another? I'd like to hear that in plain language, because I am struggling to see what UK crime rates have got to do with America.
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The Virgin Islands , though a tropical paradise are one of the transhipment points for drugs being smuggled into the USA. The appetite for drugs and drug money has resulted in the increased violence in the British Virgin islands, not availability of firearms. |
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Rainbow - nobody here is arguing that fewer guns means less crime. It is you who is making the argument that changes in UK crime rates can be attributed to changes in gun laws, an argument that does not make sense when you look deeper into it than "guns banned '97, few years later crime is rising". It is more complicated than that.
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