And wouldn’t you know it, England is a ‘gun free zone’.
Daily Mail:
By James Slack
UPDATED: 18:14 EST, 2 July 2009
Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.
Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.
Britain has an even worse violence rate than South Africa (file picture)
The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.
In the decade following the party’s election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million – or more than two every minute.
The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:
- The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
- It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
- The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
- It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.
But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.
In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.
The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.
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If the UK seriously wishes to lower their appallingly high violent crime rate, they will bring back responsible gun ownership, and allow for concealed carry by lawful citizens. Do I have any confidence in them doing so? Absolutely not. UK law enforcement and the political elites, media, etc. are craven, snivelling cowards, doing all possible for their hopeless policy of “community cohesion” and to facilitate the muslim takeover and Shariafication of their own nation.
Now what really is laughable is listening to that disgustingly stupid Brit, Piers Morgan from CNN trying to take 2nd Amendment Americans to task in the aftermath of the horrific school massacre in Connecticut. It was a sheer pleasure watching Morgan get his ass….oh, wait, he’s a Brit…arse handed to him by both Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, and also, none other than Ted Nugent. Piers Morgan’s histronics were full-blown for all and sundry to see, and now there is a petition drive campaign with over 20,000 signatures which seeks to have him deported. Now if only he would be forced to take Barack Obama and his entire administration too!
@randy63ism
The Americans have the right to deport any foreigner they wish, so they have the right to deport Obama too.
@ Randy, keep the bastard, we don’t want the cee u next tuesday back over here mate.
Buck I don’t think anyone wants him.
The MSM will not report the crimes per 100,000 and compare apples to apples, they will take the total number of crimes and use it to attack the US, ignoring our larger population.
And Austria #2. What’s up with that? The hills are alive with the sound of violence?
@EDL Buck: In that case, lets deport him to the bottom of the Atlantic and let the sharks sort ’em out!
Vlad it has to do with gun control, political correctness and Moslem immigrants.