UK vs US, violent crime meme

[DreWId]

14. Thanks for clarifying

What do you mean 'more lethal', can you explain, please? What is the firing rate of a .25 ACP? I have a difficult time picturing a butcher knife able to maim at the same rate as a gun (or for that matter, any bladed, close-combat weapon matching the firing rate and range of any gun, but I digress)

And with that paragraph what you're saying is that even with lesser gun laws the UK still had less homicide by gun?


As for the Japan statistics, I'm not quite understanding your analogies at the beginning. When you say "only count legal guns", I would assume that the U.S. numbers also only count legal guns. Even if that weren't the case, we are still looking at a lesser homicide by gun rate in Japan than the US, aren't we?
The last part of that paragraph is part of the overall picture of violence/homicide [subsection: guns] as it pertains to culture and cultural identity, right? I suppose we could look back to the 1950s US of gun ownership versus wealth inequality versus violence, as well. And if what you say is true about the Japanese judicial system, according to the statistics you presented, Japan still only has a punitivity ratio of .898 compared to the US's 1.471 (even moreso compared to the UK's punitivity ratio of .049).

But information like that doesn't quite fit a meme or bumper sticker, does it. lol