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JimDandy · September 4, 2014, 02:38 PM

Here's a new one for those of us who run into people who love pointing to the UK stats after their ban...

I started here which had a chart that cited this UK Government report

Their gun ban was in 1997.

Their rate just before the ban was hovering around 11 per 1,000,000 people (IMPORTANT! They report in per million, NOT per HUNDRED THOUSAND like the US does. Make sure you convert if you compare) After the ban, it spiked all the way up to a high of 17.9 before edging back down to hovering around 11 in 2010/2011. So they banned guns to get a 10 year spike in homicides, and then returning the same homicide rate.

September 4, 2014, 02:38 PM	#23
JimDandy Senior Member Join Date: August 8, 2012 Posts: 2,556	Here's a new one for those of us who run into people who love pointing to the UK stats after their ban... I started here which had a chart that cited this UK Government report Their gun ban was in 1997. Their rate just before the ban was hovering around 11 per 1,000,000 people (IMPORTANT! They report in per million, NOT per HUNDRED THOUSAND like the US does. Make sure you convert if you compare) After the ban, it spiked all the way up to a high of 17.9 before edging back down to hovering around 11 in 2010/2011. So they banned guns to get a 10 year spike in homicides, and then returning the same homicide rate.