Handgun purchased in Chicago Same Day as St. Valentine's Day Massacre

[tmate3]

Tough place for gun enthusiasts to live. It would be interesting to compare murder rates (by any method) in the UK vs US. I wonder whether if people don't have access to guns they merely use a knife or club instead.

[NeiljohnUK]

Tough place for gun enthusiasts to live. It would be interesting to compare murder rates (by any method) in the UK vs US. I wonder whether if people don't have access to guns they merely use a knife or club instead.

The raw stats are UK 1.2 per 100,000 v US 5 per 100,000, and whilst the law abiding public in the UK have limited legal access to 'weapons' of all kinds the criminals have little difficulty in obtaining whatever they can afford to buy or hire, Scorpion SMG's, AK47's (we're not allowed any kind of centre fire semi-auto rifle) and lots of former Eastern Bloc handguns have been seized by the Police in raids on criminals, though more recently 'sanitised' (no serial number) Sig's and Glock's have been turning up in increasing numbers too https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/w...reats/firearms. Along with illegal manufacturing of handguns, https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/n...rearms-factory

Londonistan is in many areas a 3rd world sh'ite hole (you can read that BOTH ways) with not just drug crime related stabbings and killings, but inter-religious, even inter sect, fighting and killing on the streets on occasions, with the M4 taxi 'war' now reaching out as far as Reading and down the M3 to Basingstoke as one religious group attempts to control ALL the taxi trade (the Rotherham industrial scale sexual abuse of children relied in part on the same taxi trade take over, something our Government has kept mostly hidden for years from the general public, but as ever some Police officers do speak out, usually losing their jobs as a result), taxi's being the ideal transport system for drugs/weapons/sexual exploitation, especially where the drivers communicate in a language none of the indigenous people speak.

So in raw terms the UK is 'safer' for the criminally inclined and rich isolated from the public classes, less so for the law abiding general public (working classes), especially in the bigger depressed cities, home invasion aka 'hot' burglary with violence being much more commonplace now, and with many of the illegal immigrants (mainly males of fighting age) coming from war-zones the rates of violence have been increasing year on year.