The UK has a population of about 60 million and, according to the Telegraph story you quote, 1070 homicides per year.
The US has a population of about 290 million and 15900 homicides (2001 figure from the UCR).
That gives the US a homicide rate 3.3 times as high as the UK rate.
The UK rate is somewhat distorted by the ongoing civil war in Northern Ireland, which has a homicide rate about three times that of the rest of the UK.
If this is to be a forum for scholarly discussion, then it seems to me that it ought to be incumbent on posters to state all of the obviously relevant facts, including those that are not supportive of the points they wish to make.
At 10:31 AM 10/29/2003, you wrote:
Gun control works???
"... the "victimisation risk" - showing the risk of suffering a crime - in England and Wales is higher for overall crime than anywhere else in Europe, and higher than in America. The same is true of falling victim to "contact" - violent - crime."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F10%2F25%2Fncrim25.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=50048
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