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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
I always laugh when the lunatical left in the US target pro gun movements when politically posturing, stating countries with strict gun laws have lower murder rates per 100,000 people. Yet I've just proved that if those very countries had the same population as the US, the murder rates of those countries would exceed the US, especially the UK.
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Let us compare shall we?
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By Christine Jeavans
More than 70 teenagers were violently killed in the UK in 2008, BBC research has found.
The BBC News website has gathered information from police forces around the UK on every reported case of murder and manslaughter (homicide) in the 10-19 age group.
Figures include deaths resulting from apparent domestic incidents and straightforward assaults as well as gang-related violence.
In a year in which gangs and knife crime have featured regularly in headlines, collating and mapping the full information revealed that most police forces had not seen a case of teenage homicide.
The deaths were concentrated in a handful of locations with London suffering the highest number of young victims.
Other forces which reported multiple killings include Greater Manchester with five deaths; West Yorkshire, Merseyside and Strathclyde with four each and the West Midlands and South Yorkshire with three.
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THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!
This is Los Angeles County for the same year, 148 (840 total !!!) homicides under 19 years old
if you compare the LA TIMES homicide project data, map and statistics with the
BBC News similar project with teen killings in the UK the discrepancy speaks volumes...
THAT IS JUST ONE CITY IN THE US! ONE CITY HAS nearly 2-1 homicide rate as the ENTIRE UNITED KINGDOM! how many people live there, what 60-80 million people? How many in Los Angeles area, 10-11 million? Fuck that noise yr spitting, the murder rates in US are much much higher by any ratio or counting..
I pray to God day and night that only 70 kids get killed this year in this town. There were 10 teenage homicides in London thus far, LA this year has had nearly a hundred
