@clipperride You know what kills more kids than almost anything else? Swimming pools. How many stories do you hear about that?
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@clipperride I think Britons fail to realize there are huge parts of north America where guns are essential protection against bears etc.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@clipperride wait ppl are carrying guns to protect against black & griz bears? Nobody does that here.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@clipperride Up N they shoot polar bears if they get aggro but that's a different beast altogether. Here - bear spray/avoidance.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@simplic10@St_Rev Just looked up figures of gun murder per 100,000 people. USA 3.2. Canada (also lots of guns) 0.5 England (very few)0.12 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@clipperride@simplic10 UK has like 6x the robbery rate of US IIRC.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@simplic10 I can believe that. On other hand 25% of the world wide prison population are in American prisons.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @clipperride
@clipperride@simplic10 Correct statistic is overall homicides. US homicide rate is 4.8 per 100,000 in 2010, UK is 1 per 100,000.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 I still puzzle over why Canada, with wide gun ownership, has less gun crime per capita than USA? Less gang activity?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@clipperride @simplic10 US whites and US blacks are two different countries, pretty much. US white violent crime rate on par with Europe.
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@St_Rev@simplic10 Never heard it stated quite that bleakly, but I guess the statistics point to that conclusion.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @clipperride
@clipperride@simplic10 The statistics are very clear, freely available through FBI and CDC websites, and nobody looks at them.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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