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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Paging, Piers Morgan: Gun Violence Explodes In England
by John Nolte 20 Dec 2012, 6:14 AM PDT 80 post a comment
Paging Piers Morgan... Piers Morgan to the white courtesy phone....
Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of
extreme gang violence has taken hold.
The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm
offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865
last year - a rise of 89 per cent.
In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more
than five-fold.
In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled.
The statistic will fuel fears that the police are struggling to contain
gang-related violence, in which the carrying of a firearm has become
increasingly common place.
Last week, police in London revealed they had begun carrying out armed
patrols on some streets.
The move means officers armed with sub-machine guns are engaged in
routine policing for the first time.
Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, said last night: 'In areas
dominated by gang culture, we're now seeing guns used to settle scores
between rivals as well as turf wars between rival drug dealers.
Piers Morgan can't stop talking about how England's extreme gun control laws
make his case for what we should do in America, except, uhm... you know,
the facts.
What's happening in our media now is not about stopping mass-shootings or
protecting children. It's about gun control and winning a political debate
against the Right.
To the media ad Democrats, it simply doesn't mater that gun control isn't
working in England or Chicago or anywhere else. And it sure doesn't matter
if gun control might be emboldening criminals to commit gun crime because
they know the public isn't armed.
All that matters is defeating the NRA and handing Obama another win.
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发帖数: 5682 | 2 这篇文章的数据来源在哪里？
The United Kingdom has one of the lowest rates of gun homicides in the
world with 0.07 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per
100,000 inhabitants in 2009 compared to the United States' 3.0 (over 40
times higher) and to Germany's 0.21 (3 times higher).
来源: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Homicides by firearm
statistics 2011. This reference lists total intentional homicides and
percentage committed by firearm. For the US there were 5.0 homicides per 100
,000, with 60% committed by firearm for a total of 3.0 homicides by firearm;
for Germany the figures were 0.8 and 26.3%, giving 0.21. Figures for
Scotland were not listed, but for England and Wales 1.1/100,000 and 6.6% (0.
073), with 1.5/100,000 and 4.5% (0.0675) for Northern Ireland, both giving a
result which rounds to 0.07 homicides by firearm per 100,000. The missing
information for Scotland, with less than 10% of the population of the UK, is
unlikely to affect this figure. See also List of countries by firearm-
related death rate |
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