What could possibly account for that staggering difference? Why do comparisons between the US and Switzerland as well as comparisons between the US and the UK abound, but you never hear anything about Germany? What's going on over there?Last year German police fired off 85 bullets in total - in a nation of 85 million people:Police officers in Germany fired 85 bullets in 2011 in the entire country while pursuing crminals; 49 of these were warning shots. The police fired targeted shots at individuals 36 times, during which 15 people were wounded and six killed, according to statistics provided by the Police College in Muenster.Meanwhile the New York City police fired slightly fewer bullets - 84 bullets, to be exact - at one man, while their colleagues in Los Angeles fired 90 times at an unarmed teenager. Still, there is far too little bloody mayhem in the United States to satisfy the NRA; the organizaiton is pushing to allow concealed weapons in schools, churches, hospitals, and even courtrooms.Read Battleground America: One Nation Under the Gun.
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"Meanwhile the New York City police fired slightly fewer bullets - 84 bullets, to be exact - at one man, while their colleagues in Los Angeles fired 90 times at an unarmed teenager."
ReplyDeleteBut, according to you, only cops can be trusted with guns, right?
Never said it.
DeleteHoly non sequitur, concluding that the NRA has any influence at all on police officers' use of lethal force! That Dialog International site definitely has a cranky conspiracy feel to it. Not something to be taken seriously.
ReplyDeleteSome company you keep, Mikey.
thats complete bs.. cops only shoot avg of 400 people a year and face to face with close to 280mill
Deletedoesnt matter since our cops are not stupid enough to fire warning shots at a kid in a school shooting. doesn't matter who it is or why or anything else except you are allowed to shoot till the threat is no more and cops are not going to shoot someone in the leg when they can still shoot back. and I find these number to be bull crap.
I seen two school shooting on wiki and your own media shows more fired in them alone. this is selective use of unimportant numbers. I bet if I crunch the math it will show your cops kill more people per cop
You seem to be mixing up the total number of rounds fired with the number of people shot.
DeleteToday I posted a similar report comparing the UK with the US police shootings.
"The current issue of The Economist contains a striking factoid: “Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero.” By contrast, there are about 400 fatal shootings each year by local police in the United States."
I suppose you think that's total bs too?
Mike: "What could possibly account for that staggering difference?"
ReplyDeleteFewer criminals worth shooting at?