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......America doesn’t lead the world in mass public shootings. We’re not even close. Just last month, a school shooting in Crimea, Russia, claimed 20 lives and wounded 65 others. But Americans usually don’t hear about such events.
Over the course of 18 years, from 1998 to 2015, our list contains 2,354 attacks and at least 4,880 shooters outside the United States and 53 attacks and 57 shooters within this country. By our count, the U.S. makes up 1.49 percent of the murders worldwide, 2.20 percent of the attacks, and less than 1.15 percent of the mass public shooters. All these are much less than America’s 4.6 percent share of the world population.
“This doesn’t happen anywhere else on the planet,” said California’s Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom. “We stand alone in the world in the number of mass shootings," echoed U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. These were typical comments after an alleged shooter murdered 12 people in Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
People have been acting for a long time like the United States is the world’s hotbed of mass public shootings. Following a 2015 mass shooting during his administration, President Barack Obama declared: “The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”
One other thing too, The House of Commons do not count deaths in the way the Unites States do.
ReplyDeleteWhen our Police find a body with a knife protruding from it riddled with bullets and a cable around it's neck they call it a murder.
In England, they can come upon a body with a knife sticking from its chest, apparent suicide or a natural death, until they have a conviction for that crime or the coroner says otherwise, they classified those deaths as UNDETERMINED...
Though we are 6 times their population, they have 10 times the amount of crimes than the United States and this is because they refuse to determine a a case a murder until they have a conviction. It's so bad in fact, that many families are petitioning the courts because their loved ones who were murdered are being classified as either suicides or undetermined leaving families unable to claim death insurances.
In the UK, got a body, not natural causes, not a suicide, No Conviction? Not a HOMICIDE> Huge Difference...
In other words....There were 663 deaths by homicide in the UK 2013 giving us a 1.15 per 100.000 homicide deaths...
But what THEY failed to report was that the House of Commons do not list any deaths as homicide though they clearly are unless there is a conviction and the UK in 2013 there were 7% of the Verdicts still open for Males and 14% yet unclassified Verdicts for Males...7% Open Verdicts for Females and 20% yet classified Verdicts for Females...
Now that's a total of 51% of possible Homicides that are yet unclassified or open Verdicts that here in the United States would be counted as HOMICIDES!
Simply amazing and thanks for the info.
DeleteThis was from research I did back in 2015. When I attempted to update my findings from the U.K. Home Office reports I was redirected and told this information was no longer available to the public.
DeleteI contacted a friend of mine in London, Nigel, and he told me they have shut down all vital records to the public. He suspects that if the public knew their gun/knife/ crimes were higher than the United States which was the premises of surrendering their firearms, then there would be an outcry.
You now have to request a contact form and fill out what information you're requesting and what you plan on using that information for. He tells me it's nearly impossible for reporter's to get their hands on the UK crime stats much less a citizen.
I wanted to know because I was tiring of our crime stats being compared to England knowing they were being manipulated. And it didn't take long to find out how.
Write a short book. Thanks.
DeletePeople forget that,on the very same day as the Newtown shooting, a man in China went in to a school and stabbed twenty something school children.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember that was reported the next day. Thanks.
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