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Those violent crimes in the UK don't tend to involve guns and/or becoming dead. UK homicide rate: 1.2 per 100,000 persons US homicide rate: 4.7 per 100,000 per
by robotresearcher 13y ago
Those violent crimes in the UK don't tend to involve guns and/or becoming dead.
UK homicide rate: 1.2 per 100,000 persons
US homicide rate: 4.7 per 100,000 persons
You are more than twice as likely to get beaten up in the UK than the US. You are around 4 times as likely to be murdered in the US than the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
The UK has a violence problem, probably at least in part due to the drinking. I feel less safe in London than LA. But it is crazy to deny that US gun violence isn't a thing.
- ry0ohki 13y agoThose statistics mean little outside of cohorts. I would wager to guess the murder rate for the class of people who visit HackerNews is 1 per 10,000,000. Being randomly murdered is not a rational fear in America.
- robotresearcher 13y agoI'd prefer not to sweep problems under the rug because they are not suffered much by my "class".
- ry0ohki 13y agoWho's sweeping problems under the rug? I'm simply saying it's not something you need to fear, unless you plan to enter the drug trade instead of coding.
- soperj 13y agoOr go to School, university or a movie?
- ry0ohki 13y agoBecause random mass shootings never occur in Europe or outside of the US... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsdetten_school_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsdetten_school_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre
- declan 13y agoNobody is saying that gun violence doesn't exist (though I wonder how much is limited to inner cities in areas none of us want to live in if we have a choice). But we're talking at cross purposes. The first post talked about violence. The second talked about violence. The third in the sequence, yours, switched the discussion to talk about homicides. Not all violent crimes are homicides.
- robotresearcher 13y agoQuoting the first post "*2nd reason would be gun violence." The frequency of violence in the US is lower, but the death rate due to violence is much higher. Violence seems to be much more lethal in the US, for some reason.
- soperj 13y agoGun violence vs gun homicide is really just two sides of the same coin. Either way I don't want to be somewhere that chances of being shot go up appreciably, let alone just having a gun pulled on me w/ no shots fired.
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