03-18-2008, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Grace  Already did Gary, read the article  | I wonder if you did read the article Grace?
Here are some extracts:
-Sometimes, listening to politicians, police and the media, it can sound as if there is a gun-toting criminal on every street corner. The truth is far more nuanced. Serious gun crime is concentrated in particular parts of England and Wales; internationally, the country has a low death rate from guns compared with EU states such as France and Finland.
-Firearms murders have never gone over the 100 figure in the past eight years, although they did reach a peak of 95 in 2001-02 before starting to decline.
-The latest figures show that there was a 13 per cent fall in firearms offences, excluding air weapons, from 11,084 in 2005-06 to 9,608 in 2006-07.
-Not all firearms offences involve a real weapon. Imitations were used in 2,493 of the 9,608 crimes last year.
-The figure for last year was the lowest recorded since 2000-01.
-Provisional statistics show that firearms murders rose by 18 per cent, from 49 to 58, between 2005-06 and 2006-07. They represent a small proportion of the overall number of homicides in England and Wales, which was 766 in 2005-06.
58 firearms murders in an entire year in the UK - and Grace is complaining!!!
There are more firearms murders in Los Angeles alone some weekends - ditto many other US cities.
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