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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Yes because the Brits culture and our culture are exactly alike.
That's fine for them but it won't work for us over here. You might also want to check out the stats for their murder rates with knives.
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I'd really love to go statistical here, and point out comparison figures and whathaveyou (For example, your gun crime rates being 90 times ours, per capita), but I'm having a very difficult time getting statistics on how many knife crimes ACTUALLY HAPPEN in the USA. I've googled for 20 minutes and can't find the US equivalents of the following data:
Total Non-Homicidal Knife Crime in UK: 29,320 incidents 2012
Total Knife Crime In UK (Including Homicide): 29,513 Incidents 2012.
UK Population 2012 - 63.7 Million
Knife Crime Per Capita UK 2012 - 0.0004633124
If you have any idea where I could look for the US figures regards the above, that'd be great, but I can only actually find numbers for total violent crime, and those numbers come with disclaimers like this:
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Data from law enforcement agencies whose resident population falls below 100,000 are published in this table for 2 consecutive years. After which, if the population remains below 100,000, the agency’s data are no longer published in this table.
When the FBI determines that an agency’s data collection methodology does not comply with the national UCR Program’s guidelines, the figure(s) for that agency’s offense(s) is not included in the table, and the discrepancy is explained in a footnote.
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