Originally Posted by
Larry Hitze
I went around and around this with my liberal sister a couple of months ago. I researched murders in general in the UK, most of the sources I used were from UK sources and they said that basically the UK Government ( Home Office I think whatever is their equivalent of our Homeland Defense) pads the murder rates by counting multiple murders as 1, classifies deaths as something other than murder as to keep the rate low, i.e. terroristic acts are not murder even though murders occur so on and so forth. Gun deaths are understandable low due to how hard it is to get a gun, however total deaths are about the same as before it is just that the English are getting more creative about how they go about it. Stabbings, clubs, explosions etc are now the weapons of choice.
And Doc I agree with you wholeheartedly on the UN thing - a New World Order
You make it sound that you live in Utopia, I started this thread with no anti gun intent but all seem to think I did and have made all sorts of excuses and tried to deflect what they thought was my intent.
Yours is the most lame of all.
Murder by terrorist, no one died in the UK for the last few years by a terrorist act, even if they did one or two is hardly going to skew the figures by any appreciable amount.
That said over 3 or 4 years ending in 2011.
US murders averaged 4.8 per 100,000.
Canada averaged 1.6
and the UK 1.2
So you have four times the chance of being murdered in the US than you do in the UK.
I must say that the majority of deaths in all these countries are in a group 'known to police'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate