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Old 10-06-2006, 02:18 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by White Doors View Post
Who are you to tell others that they don't need guns? GB banned guns and their murder rate and violent crime rate went up.
that's a head scratcher isn't it?
Really?

Because if you actually try to look up Violent Crime Statistics for England and Wales, you'll see that the number of offences spiked in 1995 and has been dropping ever since.

If you want to talk specifically murder with firearms, I do believe the rate in England has gone up, but take a look at the Rate per 1,000 people
United Kingdom: 0.00102579 per 1,000 people
Canada : 0.00502972 per 1,000 people
United States : 0.0140633 per 1,000 people

UK is the lowest of the 32 countries listed.
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