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There were 0.15 gun deaths in England and Wales per 100,000 population in the past year, compared with 3.6 per 100,000 in the US.
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I don't see how this helps your case. That's 24 times fewer gun deaths in England.
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Why the higher rates in the U.S.?
That's something that Moore claimed to be trying to answer in BFC, but never really did.
100 years ago, when the U.S. had virtually no restrictions on private firearms ownership, the homocide rate was 1.2 per 100,000 persons...just like currently in most western European nations. In the past century, we have gone from being primarily a homogeneous agraraian society to becoming urbanized. Most crime occurrs in Urban settings, with some of our large metropolitan areas being home to more people than many countries. Combine that with the rise of the illegal narcotics trade over the past thrity years and you have a crime cauldron in our inner cities.
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I'm not convinced of your reasons for the US' high statistics here considering; hey guess what, there are immigrants in England, there are drugs in England and there are inner cities in England. Heck, the English have even had liberal sentencing laws too. The population of Los Angeles County is about 9 million. The population of Greater London is about 7 million.
I'm not convinced by ALL of the anti-gun arguments myself but in this case I don't think you have the answers either.