Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Has a gun ban made England safer?


From the October 9th, 2012 edition of the Guardian News...
*551 homicides (includes murder, manslaughter and infanticide) were reported in 2011/12, a considerable drop on the previous year's total of 638. Homicides are now down to around half of the figure for 2001/2.
*Attempted murders also fell, but by a smaller proportion, dropping by 7.6% in comparison to a fall of 13.6% in homicides.
Interesting information given the current discussion of guns in America...
Read the whole article here...
Sources: 
http://m.guardiannews.com/news/datablog/2011/jul/14/crime-statistics-england-wales


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