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I accept that this is a reduction from the high of around 20,000 per year a few years ago,
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Which reduction coincides with a period of increasing firearms sales, radically-liberalized CCW laws, increasing CCW licensure, etc.
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it would still be many times more dangerous to be in the US than the UK.
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If you'll review my sources above, you'll find that the UK is currently quite a lot -more- dangerous than the US. You are more than 2x as likely to be a victim of violent crime in Scotland than in the United States. "Most violent nation in the developed world" and all that.
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Sadly, you and I will never see eye to eye on this - we should both realise that by now.
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This is true. However, debate with an educated opponent keeps me sharp ;-).