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While the rate of crimes committed with a gun may be lower in the UK, violent crime as a whole is much higher. Five times higher than my home of NYC. You can ea
by maratd 14y ago
While the rate of crimes committed with a gun may be lower in the UK, violent crime as a whole is much higher. Five times higher than my home of NYC. You can easily attribute this to a lack of guns. If there's less of a chance being shot, you have a higher incentive to commit crime.
http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2007/01/crime-in-uk-versus-crime-in-us.html http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2007/01/crime-in-uk-versus-crim...
- JabavuAdams 14y agoAnd yet the same is not true of Toronto, Canada. There are complex cultural issues at work -- it's not just about prevalence of gun ownership.
- maratd 14y agoCrime in Toronto is fairly low. Gun control laws in Canada are similar to those in the US. I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
- JabavuAdams 14y ago> Gun control laws in Canada are similar to those in the US Not true. It is illegal to use a firearm for self-defence in Canada -- pointing a firearm at another person is an offence under the Criminal Code. Except in the sketchiest of gang-infested neighbourhoods, one would not assume that urban home-owners would have guns, so there's no psychological deterrent there. Even the idea of using possibly lethal force to defend property is not really mainstream here.