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muriel_volestrangler

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3. Knife murders have been higher in the USA (per capita) than the UK for years

Reply to soandso (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 04:35 AM

Nov 11

Knife murders are also higher stateside: there were 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in the US for every million of population in 2016.

In Britain there were 3.26 homicides involving a sharp instrument per million people in the year from April 2016 to March 2017.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/05/trump-s-knife-crime-claim-how-do-the-us-and-uk-compare-

it's just that the American gun murder rate dwarfs them both.

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mass stabbing in Seattle [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 11 OP

Happy Monday morning in America Tickle Nov 11 #1

9 felony convictions in the past 10 years soandso Nov 11 #2

Knife murders have been higher in the USA (per capita) than the UK for years muriel_volestrangler Nov 11 #3

Certainly more gun crime soandso Nov 11 #5

I guess this is why I was thinking of stabbings in the UK soandso Nov 11 #7

Well, as I said, the US figures are worse for knife deaths. You need to find comparable figures muriel_volestrangler Nov 11 #9

I haven't looked at the stats on knife crime in the US soandso Nov 11 #12

Remember, the London figure is about 7,000 for assault with a knife muriel_volestrangler Nov 11 #15

$2 million dollars bail MichMan Nov 11 #14

Another case of someone who should have been in prison soandso Nov 11 #16

I was within two blocks of this, right around the same time. LisaM Nov 11 #4

Scary soandso Nov 11 #6

There are some - mild panhandling is pretty constant. LisaM Nov 11 #10

That's a shame soandso Nov 11 #11

Yes, a lot of cities are experiencing this. WFH doesn't help. LisaM Nov 12 #17

Welcome to the GQP world.... Lovie777 Nov 11 #8

It was a bad election but Seattle is not red. jimfields33 Nov 11 #13

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