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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  3748 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police In England And Wales Went Two Years Without Fatally Shooting Someone

True, but fatal shootings occur MUCH more than at 6x the rate. Discharged in three situations. How many in the US?





user-inactivated  ·  3748 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Correct. I made a generalization when citing those statistics because I figured they were enough to show that people are jumping to conclusions based on facts. You can't just have a fact, cite it, and make a claim without having proper due diligence on the facts. The truth can be more misleading than lies, and unfortunately the mainstream media has conditioned us to believe that it's A-okay to do so.

Here are some more factors that should be considered. Crime levels between the two countries, cultural differences between the two countries, the fact that UK police do not carry even a pistol under normal circumstances (I agree US police should not be brandishing assault weapons, but I feel they should carry a pistol), population density (US has much larger cities and much more of them than the UK which can distort national averages), geography (because of more surface area, it requires more police officers to patrol the US and thus more likely for corruption or violence to occur), CCTV usage (higher in UK and easier due to smaller geography), race/hate related crimes and bigotry (UK tends to be more tolerant as a culture from what I understand)... I could go on but I'm a bit tired.