“There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the UK, making it the most violent place in Europe. Austria is second, with a rate of 1,677 per 100,000 people, followed by Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Holland. By comparison America has an estimated rate of 466 violent crimes per 100,000.” The Guardian
So hey, Europe, how ’bout you shut the fuck up about gun control?
@Steve_Key1 Good stats??? How many guns were convicted for those ‘murders’? How many lives were saved by ‘guns’?
fascist bastards
Comparing CRIME numbers with VIOLENT CRIME numbers is pretty stupid.
I’m a gun nut myself. If you want to argue against gun control, get your f*cking numbers right!
You should compare legal gun ownership rates and violent crime rates of switzerland, austria, great britain and the US. This will show that ‘more guns’ don’t lead to more crimes and ‘less guns’ don’t lead to less crimes. Greetings from Germany!
Did you see what they did there? They compared the total crime rate in various European countries with the violent crime rate in the US. I don’t where to find statistics on rape, robbery, and assault (other violent crimes) for Europe, but murder rates are easy to find: US: 4.5 per 100,000, England and Wales: 0.9, Austria: 1.0, Sweden: 0.7, Belgium 1.7, Finland 1.7, and Holland: 0.9. The overall crime rate in the US, including property crime is 3,100 per 100,000.
Sources FBI Crime in the United States, 2013 and Eurostat Crimes Recorded by the Police, 2012.