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I can’t find any super up-to-date info on the UK murder rate, but extrapolating trends from the early 2010s, it seems to be about the same as the 70s [1]. Death
by rflrob 9y ago
I can’t find any super up-to-date info on the UK murder rate, but extrapolating trends from the early 2010s, it seems to be about the same as the 70s [1]. Deaths by Terrorism in the UK are way down [2], though if you care whether the people likely to kill you are Irish or Islamist, I suppose that’s you’re prerogative. No idea where to find data on adventure sports...
[1] https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-england-ireland-and-canada https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-engla...
[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/com...
- jwilk 9y agoNon-AMP link for [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terroris...
- icebraining 9y agoRe: terrorism, it's a trend over the whole Western Europe: http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terrorism-1970-2015final.png http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terro... The number of people killed in 2015 used to be normal.
- jwilk 9y agoThe two graphs merged: https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png