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UK is violent crime capital of Europe - Telegraph
The United Kingdom is the violent crime capital of Europe and has one of the highest rates of violence in the world, worse even than America, according to new research.
A breakdown of the statistics, which were compiled into league tables by the Conservatives, revealed that violent crime in the UK had increased from 652,974 offences in 1998 to more than 1.15 million crimes in 2007.
It means there are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the UK, making it the most violent place in Europe.
Austria is second, with a rate of 1,677 per 100,000 people, followed by Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Holland.
By comparison, America has an estimated rate of 466 violent crimes per 100,000 population.
What a load of utter bollocks!!
Lets get a few things straight:
1) Guns are not allowed in the UK unless you have a license and their are strict rules and regulations regarding this. Homeowners are not allowed guns. This alone reduces the amount of guns in the UK.
2) The US has many more prisons and majority of prisoners in there are there cos of gun related crime or the crime they committed involved a gun.
3) The UK is tiny, for it to have the figures you mentioned nearly everyone around us would be a criminal.
4) Very importantly it has to be noted those involved in the crimes in the UK are not RANDOM attacks on the public they are specifics i.e. 2 parties have a problem etc. Where as in the US people take a gun out on an afternoon and go on a rampage in a school or the town centre...
Dont try to defend the US with the fabricated figures pal.
Our country is not in the news every month for "X amount dead by gunman" or "xx children dead in school after gunman holds school hostage and kills himself".
It happens across the water in your "perfect" US.
What do people expect? The US is the biggest war monger, of course its people will get up and go on rampages. Dont think it will be peaceful. Its own people will do the dirty work and there will always be someone
Statistics are a load of bollocks. Anyone can make them up.
Just look at the way US is policed. All cops carry guns, the first thing they do is pull a gun at you then ask you a question like a retard. No wonder they get shot.
Our cops do not carry guns unless they are trained for it, not any new rookie. And even then they can only draw their guns upon the Inspectors permission! Not without it! And now Tasers have been introduced which are drawn before guns.
UK is civilised and humanitarian unlike the US. The crooks carry guns in US, so they can pull theirs out when the cops pull theirs out - I totally understand that. It only takes one slip of the fat donut finger for the gun to go off and there is NO GOING back!