Grumblenuts
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Likely you already knew the closest source fit appeared to be the Daily Fail. Despite the blaring headlines and bar charts they couldn't help admitting:Sure, what laws? How do they correlate to the statistics put up? How do they stack up against the rates in the US and why pick only the stats for a city and not for England? Oh and what's the source of these statistics. See one can prove anything by sufficiently cherry picking statistics, or for that matter lie about them by not sourcing.Hmms, so before last year England didn't have strict gun control? Your stats, which you didn't source btw all speak about an increase this year. How does that help your argument?Look no further than London, England, where civilian firearm ownership is de facto banned. Heck, their dear leader had good common sense to ban not only firearms, but sharp, pointy objects as well.
Sorry, you just can't argue the good results, right?
Through March of 2018:
- The murder rate is up 44 percent over the last twelve months
- Violent crime is up 33% over the preceding twelve months
- Home robbery is also up, by a third
- Rape is up 18 percent
Guess those 100lb English ladies are finding the notion of fighting off a 250lb rapist with their fists to be a bit of a sticky wicket???
But hey, but at least there's no gun or knife crime, right?
- Knife crime up 21 percent
- Shootings up 23 percent from the previous year
- More
Hmm...
Well, we all know the only reason London sees this crime is because of all the lax gun laws in nearly Indiana...
Oh, wait. Crap. Never mind.
They added new laws, try to keep up.
Whenever crime slows to a crawl the media is going to blow a gasket the minute a new trend might be indicated. Any OP who withholds their source(s) is simply trolling anyway.According to the crime survey, which the ONS says is the most reliable indicator of long-term trends in the most common types of offending experienced by the general population, there were an estimated 10.6 million incidents of crime, a fall of 7% on the previous 12 months.