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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
So, who is the first to disprove this? Let me guess, NONE OF YOU CAN!  |
Let's see. Your embassy over here says that the current violent crime rate in the US is 20 crimes per 1000 citizens.:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm
The police in the UK registered 1,158,957 violent crimes in 2007 .
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/por...lent_crime.pdf
1,158,957 divided by 60,578,000 people equals in a rate of: 0.0191316 cases per citizen or 19.1316 cases per 1000 citizens.
As the European police report indicates the UK numbers are outstandingly high in western Europe. In countries like Germany with strict weapon restrictions the crime rate is much lower. We have only 217,923 crimes for ca. 82,000,000 people equalling in a crime rate of 2,6 violent crimes per 1000 people.