Quote Originally Posted by Logos View Post
Discojoe or whomever may be more informed on the subject than I, the UK has a gun ban law, does it not? I am not even sure if the police are armed (or regularly armed) with guns. Statistically how high are their gun-related crimes and accidents compare with the US?
Murders with firearms per 1,000 people:

The US: 0.0279271 per 1,000 people, ranked no. 8.

The UK: 0.00102579 per 1,000 people, ranked no. 32.

The problem is that most (almost all) US gun violence occurs in inner cities, (where you can't legally carry a gun) with illegal firearms.