Here we go again…

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    1 year ago

    So it’s all or nothing? 🤡

    Ah yes… cherry pick the statement.

    And even accounting for that UK overall homicide rate hasn’t decreased any faster than any other “western” country INCLUDING the USA.

    Literally followed right after. Clown harder.

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            1 year ago

            Never been to Glasgow then?

            Nope I haven’t… Been all over Germany and Poland, also incidentally to Romania and Ireland in a very limited fashion. But I did eventually find an answer to my own question…

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom

            In 2018 there were 4,629 criminal gangs and syndicates in Britain, employing 33,598 professional gangsters.

            Which translates to about 5 per 10000 people are in a gang in Britain…

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_population

            an estimated 1.4 million in 33,000 gangs in 2011.[1][2][3] About 900,000 gang members lived “within local communities across the country”, and about 147,000 were in U.S. prisons or jails in 2009.[4]

            Which translates to about… 42 per 10000 people are in a gang here in USA…

            So a 5-6times increase in homicide lines up basically perfectly.

            Edit: whoops used the wrong number initially… it’s much higher…

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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                1 year ago

                Taking them away certainly isn’t… Criminals don’t care about laws… That’s kind of the definition.

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                  1 year ago

                  It’s the American way, only do the right thing after you’ve exhausted every other option

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                    1 year ago

                    I’m not tracking. You think that taking guns away will somehow make the 1.4 million people abstain from gang violence?