Comparing 2006 figures.
In the United States, the annual rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 population is 3.36.
In the United Kingdom, the annual rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 population is 0.08.
To put it plainly, you are about 40 times more likely to be a gun homicide victim in the US than the UK.
In the United States, the annual rate of homicide by any means per 100,000 population is 5.62.
In the United Kingdom, the annual rate of homicide by any means per 100,000 population is 1.8.
So, when you hear gunloons like the dishonest Joe Huffman claim international comparisons mean nothing--it simply isn't true.
International comparisons are valuable in some respects, but completely worthless in others.
ReplyDeleteOVERALL Suicide Rates in the UK are 9.2 per 100K (2008). In the US 11.1 per 100K. Not that far different, showing that more people must kill themselves by other methods than firearms in the UK, because their suicide rate is actually fairly close to the US.
Homcide rates are different, firearm-related homicide rates even more distant.
Because of the strict gun control in the UK, some people mistakenly claim that their gun control is what is responsible for their lower gun violence (crime, homicide and suicide) rates.
But this is incorrect.
If their gun control was responsible, then they should have seen a decrease in these rates with each increase in gun control - but there is NO significant or consistent change in these rates in the UK after each new gun control measure, even the total ban of handguns in 1998.
When they had a low rate of firearm-related violent crime BEFORE their gun control with no significant change as a result of the new laws, how can that possibly mean their gun control makes them safer?
...Orygunner...
Jade: “So, when you hear gunloons like the dishonest Joe Huffman claim international comparisons mean nothing--it simply isn't true.”
ReplyDeleteIt means something to Jade as long as he gets to hand pick his countries for international comparisons. Now if you compare the USA to Russia, then there are all kinds of reasons why international comparisons mean nothing.
Thanks for a great, simple and incisive post, Jadegold.
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