Britain's 'pervasive horror of knife crime' reaches record for number of stabbing homicides

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by MnM258

It does result in many fewer killings than in the US though, of course it isn't going to mean zero killings I don't think anybody is suggesting that.

There are too many variables in the US and UK to state with any confidence that gun regs result in lower homicide rates. Given the UK homicide rate did not reduce in any way after 1997, nor after 1984.
It's purely speculative.

Have you heard the one about my tiger repellant elephant statue?

[MnM258]

The number of guns in circulation barely changed after 1997, there were very few anyway so I'm not sure why a decrease would be expected. It is pretty difficult to imagine how flooding the country with many times more guns and letting anybody carry them around with them anywhere they wanted to would do anything to improve safety or reduce homicide rates though, how would that work?

[snebarekim]

Big dangerous implement retrieval by British police recently. They narrowly avoided a cereal killer spree with the confiscation of the rusty spoon obviously.


https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/s...cludes-a-spoon

[Pilot1]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

I diasgree, people are not allowed to carry any offensive weapon in the UK and many other countries, whilst guns are not kept for self defence purposes. This type of gun ownership is unique to the US, as most of the western world do not allow such a reason for gun ownership.

Sensible Law abiding people are allowed guns in the UK in terms of sport/target shootimg, hunting/game shooting, pest control etc, and guns are quite popular in rural communities.

If you want to learn how to fire high powered weapons then join the military cadets or reserve forces, indeed you will get to fire something far mre powerful than an AR-15 and will be taught how to shoot properly. There are also numerous gun clubs and clay pigeon shooting is a fairly cheap gun sport, as is target shooting.

The restrictions on citizens having guns was one of the reasons the American colonies rebelled against England and became its own country. We are different from England and the rest of the world BY DESIGN, and we like it that way. It is a basis for American Exceptionalism.