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It's not like we don't have violence in the UK. We don't have active shooters but we have more than a few active stabbers and active bombers.
by gadders 5y ago
It's not like we don't have violence in the UK. We don't have active shooters but we have more than a few active stabbers and active bombers.
- maxehmookau 5y agoLet's crunch the numbers: - In the year ending March 2021 there were 41,000 instances of recorded knife crime in the UK. - 224 deaths as a result of a stabbing in the same period. - Since 1970 there have been 3,395 deaths (total) from any form of terrorism in the UK. Source: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04... In the US: - 19,384 deaths as a result of a shooting. (2020) Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm Sure, we have violence, but it's on a whole different level.
- gadders 5y agoWhere did I say it was the same level? I just said the nature of the threat is different.
- iso1210 5y agoI went to school when Irish bombers will blowing up my home town and killing kids. I remember having a fire drill once at school which might have doubled as a bomb-threat drill. Far more danger from the car drivers outside the front gates.