Trump brings British knife attacks into U.S. gunfight - and upsets Londoners again

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/05/trump-brings-british-knife-attacks-into-u-s-gunfight-and-upsets-londoners-again/

Trump brings British knife attacks into U.S. gunfight — and upsets Londoners again
by Adam Taylor | May 5 at 11:38 AM

President Trump is scheduled to visit London on July 13. This trip has been long delayed: in part a result of his frosty relationship with British Prime Minister Theresa May, but also due to the threat of widespread protests from Britons, who hold overwhelmingly negative views of the American leader.

One would think the president would attempt to mend bridges ahead of the trip, but on Friday, as he addressed the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Trump said that a knife crime epidemic in London had caused a hospital in the center of the city to become “like a war zone.”

“I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital — right in the middle — is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds,” Trump said about halfway through his 50-minute speech. “Yes, that’s right, they don’t have guns. They have knives, and instead there’s blood all over the floors of this hospital. They say it’s as bad as a military war zone hospital.”

The president used the rising number of knife attacks in Britain while speaking in support of gun rights in the United States.

[dameatball]

1. Asshat clown.....always using terms like "they say".....BS

[sunonmars]

2. He thought he was gonna get protests before, wait til you see them now. UK Govt furious

[John Fante]

3. London's homicide rate: 1.2 per 100k

The safest US city with a minimum population of 500k is El Paso, at 2.5. Not bad, but still more than double London's figure.

Not that matters though - El Paso is 82% Hispanic, so good luck getting this racist POS administration to acknowledge that our safest large city is right at the US/Mexico border and is almost exclusively Latino.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. So do gunshot wounds produce *less* blood than "horrible stabbing wounds"?

His premise is that people in London use knives to kill people because they don't have guns. So, Spanky, answer me this: If the people in London did have guns, wouldn't they be killing people with guns instead of knives?

[struggle4progress]

5. The 2016 population of NYC was around 8.55 million; that of London, around 8.79 million

NYC had 334 homicides in 2016 (a low number for the city); London had 110

Because it's easier to kill with a gun, the gun homicide rate in around one in a million in the UK (where guns are less common), compared to the US rate, which is about forty per million

[Kirk Lover]

6. Tis a pity all those knives in GB aren't guns...ain't that right NRA Donny Dotard? nt

[sunonmars]

7. in 2017 there 613 murders in the UK (Pop 65.5M)...Chicago had more than that on its own

Some cheek Trump has......

[uppityperson]

8. Unnamed sources combined wIth an vivid imagination, unhinged grasp on reality and no empathy

[MFM008]

9. Cant wait

To see the greeting protesters give him....
It will be YUGE!!!

[smirkymonkey]

10. I would take my chances with a knife wielding population over a gun wielding

population any day. Trump is such a stupid fuck. I hope he gets his ass handed to him over there. He's protected from his haters here, but it's going to be hard to find an adoring crowd in the UK.

[Cha]

11. KICK

[Cha]

12. Yeah, keep talkin', trump.. you stupid fuck

[Exotica]

13. as a London girl who will be back there in July, I fully endorse this campaign:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Just like all those grizzly bears outside of schools.