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Since practically all crimes in the UK are under reported by police agencies
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Rainbow you didn't fully read the article,
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The explanation for the gulf is that the Government figures only include cases where guns are fired, used to "pistol whip" victims, or brandished as a threat.
Thousands of offences including gun-smuggling and illegal possession of a firearm - which normally carries a minimum five-year jail sentence - are omitted from the Home Office's headline count, raising questions about the reliability of Government crime data.
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Gun crime is not under reported...They make a differentiation between when guns are used violently or with the threat of violence in the commission of a crime and when guns are the crime by virtue of possession.
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"
