Showing some real deep and to the bone ignorance here. UB quoted firearm related death rates for both countries. The rate is death count normalized to the size of the population. I mean, this kind of statistic has been used for about 500 years, maybe more. You haven't even caught up with people who thought the world was flat, drew blood as a curative and thought that mice spontaneously generated from straw. Too funny this.
The death rate due to fire arms is 45 times greater than in England. The rate factors in population size.
The gun lobby is losing ground on this position and you will see changes that you don't like soon. There is a much larger group of people who don't own guns in the US and there is a shift in that group away from protecting the rights of the much smaller group's almost unrestrained access to guns. Eventually, you will see changes that you don't like unless firearm death rates in the US that approach the one in England or Canada.
Yet you and other gun owners complain, drag feet and say nuh-uh. It would be in your own interest for gun owners to take ownership of reducing firearm related death rate to be in line with Canada or England.
Like I said before, most gun crimes happen in inner cities by criminals. If i take a figure from
Lewisboro Town, New York and from flint michigan will they have the same gun crime rate?
This is proof gun control does not work. Only after they hired more cops did the crimes go down.
MURDER AND HOMICIDE RATES BEFORE AND AFTER GUN BANS
1 DEC , 2013
UPDATE: An interview that John Lott had on this post on Cam & Company is
available here (
SiriusXM Channel 125).
Original post: Every place that has been banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it’s Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland.
For an example of homicide rates before and after a ban, take the case of the handgun ban in England and Wales in January 1997 (source
here see Table 1.01 and the column marked “Offences currently recorded as homicide per million population,” UPDATED numbers
available here). After the ban, clearly homicide rates bounce around over time, but there is only one year (2010) where the homicide rate is lower than it was in 1996. The immediate effect was about a 50 percent increase in homicide rates. Firearm homicide rate had almost
doubledbetween 1996 and 2002 (
see here p. 11). The homicide and firearm homicide rates only began falling when there was a large increase in the number of police officers during 2003 and 2004. Despite
the huge increase in the number of police, the murder rate still remained slightly higher than the immediate pre-ban rate.
