Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic Isnt that strange. You are mentioning firearm OFFENCES NOT Homicides Try being a little intellectually honest, Because Homicide rates are down....I have the stats from the home office, but they are in PDF form but in 2003, there were 1047 homicides (total) not all gun deaths. In 2009 there were 664 homicides (total) and in 2015, there were 574 homicides total. Now that includes manslaughter, infanticide, corporate manslaughter and Murder(not simply gun deaths) Now you want to claim that firearms offences have shrunk by half you will have to show your method, or see the difference between homicides and firearm offences. Well I wasn't trying to be sly... just to say that even gun laws as strict as the UK's don't make the gun problem go away. But as you bring up the UK's homicide stats, you should know that as far as I'm aware they aren't homicide stats. Since 1967, homicide figures for England and Wales have been adjusted to exclude any cases which do not result in conviction ~Source The claim is made that this "adjustment" only reduces the numbers by 13-15%, but I don't see any reason to trust it. Mortality figures (for example from 2011, see here) list 1251 deaths resulting from "undetermined intent" plus another 488 from "assault; death from injury or poisoning, event awaiting determination of intent," which seems to me to leave a lot of potential homicides uncounted, on top of the ones that aren't counted because nobody was ever convicted. K.
< Message edited by Kirata -- 7/9/2016 5:52:06 AM >
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