Three Toes to Brit reporter (guns): "Go back to your own country" with "mass stabbings"

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.. "Well, I understand we don't have guns in the UK, that is true, but we don't have mass shootings either. Children aren't scared to go to school," said the British reporter, who has not been identified.

Greene shot back, claiming that the UK has "mass stabbings" and "all kinds of murder."

"Nothing like the same rates here," the reporter said in response.

"Well, you can go back to your country and worry about your no guns," Greene said. "We like ours here."...

https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-british-reporter-go-back-own-country-2022-6

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Inevitably, the stabbing homicide rate is higher in the US than the UK

and also inevitably, Taylor Greene is regurgitating a lie by Trump:

"They don't have guns. They have knives and instead there's blood all over the floors of this hospital," he said. "They say it's as bad as a military war zone hospital. Knives, knives, knives, knives.”
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There were 34 firearm homicides in the US per million of population in 2016, compared with 0.48 shooting-related murders in the UK.

Knife murders are also higher stateside: there were 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in the US for every million of population in 2016.

In Britain there were 3.26 homicides involving a sharp instrument per million people in the year from April 2016 to March 2017.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/05/trump-s-knife-crime-claim-how-do-the-us-and-uk-compare-

Every year over 5 years, the stabbing rate was higher in the USA.