Is The Uk Gun Crime Higher Than USA?

Question

I Read Somewere It Is And A Few Progams Say it aswell...

Answer 1

Killing is killing but it is crime related and not related to the weapon used. How about the laws enacted in the UK that deal with knives? There has been a surge in the amount of killing with knives in the UK. I believe I read where they were going to or did enact laws determining what length and kind of knife a person could have. I understood that Chef knives were only going to be allowed to be possesed by licensed Chef's.

Heck before you know it, knives will be outlawed and then only outlaws will have knives. Besides, noone really NEEDS a Chef knife, do they?

Answer 2

Ummm, I'm not sure what weekly birdcage liner you were reading that says that, but the UK's strict gun control laws make that an impossibility.  According to a recent FBI statistic the U.S. kills more of its citizens, due to gun related acts, every two and half years than the entire Vietnam War did.  Does anyone else see something wrong with that?!

Answer 3

That would be virtually impossible when you take a look at the two nations side by side. The US is just so much larger.

The issue here has nothing to do with gun control, it has to do with crime.

Answer 4

Oh my god, yes! It's got to be because of social services and the welfare system. The government needs to give more money to people who dropped out of high school, started using and selling drugs, had 3 kids before they could drink legally and blew every opportunity that every other American had to make life better for themselves. This way gun crimes would go down. Oh, and Global Warming has a lot to do with it too. Cuz that's another "Government Phenomenon" that affects us today.

Or...we could legalize drugs, put rapists, pedophiles and murderers in jail forever and these "drug & gang" related shootings would drop. Just like the prohibition era gang crimes did.