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We do things differently here. As a result, we have only had one mass shooting incident in the last 20 years. Our per-capita murder rate is about 1/4 that of th
by jdietrich 10y ago
We do things differently here. As a result, we have only had one mass shooting incident in the last 20 years. Our per-capita murder rate is about 1/4 that of the US. We had three fatal police shootings last year, one in 2014 and none in 2013.
You might not like it, but we do. Our system of gun control is overwhelmingly popular.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5
http://www.inquest.org.uk/statistics/fatal-police-shootings http://www.inquest.org.uk/statistics/fatal-police-shootings
- cm2187 10y agoI don't want to make it another gun control debate, but I do not think it is the prohibition of weapons that make shooting rares. Drugs are equally prohibited and are by no mean rare. Everyone has an assault riffle at home in Switzerland and I have never heard of a mass shooting there. I think it's more a behavioral thing than a gun law thing.
- scholia 10y agoThis may well be true. However, it's better to have a behavioral problem without guns than a behavioral problem with guns widely and easily available.