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Quote by: lindsay If so few criminals have guns in the UK now, why has gun crime been rising? |
The truth is, Lindsay, I really don't know. If I were to take a wild guess it would be a combination of globilization and easier access to foreign goods, pressures from an exploding world population and the general Rambo/Americanization of the world's cultures over the last 50 years.
What it absolutely isn't, Lindsay, is the idea that Britain hasn't had enough guns, and this applies to countries all over the world that are experiencing increased violence and gun crime.
It was maybe ten years ago that this wonderful chart was circulating the web... it showed the annual number of firearm murders committed in various countries around the world. It was like twenty modern, first world countries and
went something like...
Japan -- 16,
England -- 53,
Norway -- 168,
Australia -- 325,
France -- 412,
etc.
etc.
etc.
United States -- 21,683
So the point is... whatever the factors at work in the last few decades, it wasn't because people around the world didn't have enough guns to fight crime in the streets, and having more guns simply makes it worse.
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