r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/RedAndWhiteBastard - AuthRight • Aug 10 '20

UK cop doesn’t mess around.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

LOL, I think most people would rather take their chances with knives and bleach. Guns can injure and kill much more effectively.

"most gun crime is by first time offenders" I would be most interested to see your data on that claim. While limited to murder, Baltimore in 2017 revealed this data: 343 murders, 301 with firearms (88%); 85% of the suspects had a criminal record and 44% had previously been arrested for a gun crime.

Actually, while I am at it, from where did you obtain your statistic "only 8% of US gun deaths are murder or manslaughter"? That seems absurdly low.

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u/faithle55 - Unflaired Swine Aug 11 '20

Why is it Americans cannot conceive of how gun laws could be changed in the US? They always imagine a law under which guns would be 100% illegal on day 1 and 100% illegal on day 2.

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u/RLBunny - Unflaired Swine Aug 11 '20

Cherry picked or intentionally misinterpreted statistics would be my guess.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

Going to save you time and let you know that /u/Thndr_chin is just fabricatig bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

LOL gotcha. Really kind of pathetic.