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Britain is most violent country in Europe. Worse than South Africa and U.S.
- argimenes 14y agoBritain is not a country, it is an island that contains three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales.
- theevocater 14y agoHow did the daily mail get this simple fact wrong you ask? Well its the daily mail!
- jalanco 14y agoI'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they they use "Britain" as a casual term for the UK, in the same way that people refer to the USA as "America". And yes, the word "country" is not properly used. I was very surprised by the thrust of the article however; I had assumed that the US was much more violent. Especially given the dearth of firearms in the UK. If this is accurate, it is extraordinarily puzzling, at least to me.