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Originally Posted by PornoMonster
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In fact, they did... So let's look at the stats shall we?
From your article...
The number of people injured or killed by guns, excluding air weapons, has increased from 864 in 1998/99 to a provisional figure of 1,760 in 2008/09, an increase of 104 per cent .
That's it?
In the UK you have 51 gun deaths in in 2007,
compared to thirty thousand on average in the US?
In the UK, only 6% of homicides involve firearms. In the US, it's 60%.
Yes, gun violence has increased over a two year period which not surprisingly took place during a world wide recession, yet even during this increase gun violence is still a lot less than in the US.