Inter country comparisons are largely meaningless, because statistics with the same name, or near enough the same name, are gathered and compiled in such different ways.
for example, the united state, has a "homicide rate"; if it looks like a homicide, that's generally what it gets recorded as.
Britain has a "murder rate", which requires a perp to be picked up, and convicted of murder, then to appeal the conviction, and the appeal to fail... and after all of that has happened, if anyone is still paying attention, it gets booked down as a "murder" for the year that the process is completed.
I don't know what proportion of homicides, that process actually picks up. I'd be very surprised if it gets as high as 10%. But even assuming 10%, that would mean that Britain's "murder rate" of around 0.3 per 100,000 population per year, represents a homicide rate of around 3 per 100,000 per year - which is roughly the same as the united state's figure.
It also means that what tends to show up in analyses of "murders" are the tearful cuckolded spouses, who call the cops, and who are still clutching the bloody carving knife and are covered in blood when the cops arrive. The gangland hit, stands next to no chance of showing up, unless the perp boasts about it, or their partner finds a sick souvenir in the freezer.
Back in 96, there was a British libertarian, who was sick of people dismissing his claim that guns are not difficult to make, so he made a sub machine gun, test fired it, wrote it up, and got a photographer friend around to photograph it. His friend snitched and he got 5 years amongst the hard bastards in a max security prison. His story continued, and the bureaucrats treatment of him got worse after that...
Philip Luty, did not need a lathe or a milling machine, only Bubba's household DIY tools and standard sizes of steel pipe, yet the British bureautw@s explored the possibility of licensing home workshops. I think his first book is still available from Paladin, and that his others still circulate on the net and peer to peer.
It's a difficult concept to get across to people, that a SMG actually turns out to be the easiest of guns to make (as easy or easier than a zip gun), and requires only some household tools and standard size steel tubing, not an elaborate production line.
Actual professional looking machine pistols from an underground manufacturer have been found with intercepted drugs cargoes going into the Netherlands.
We know from seizures of hard drugs that they can arrive in consignments of 10 tons and over. we also know that despite a 30 year or so "war on" that drugs are more available, stronger and cheaper now than when the "war on" started. The same happened with alcohol prohibition, and the same will likely happen with "gun prohibition".
for example, the united state, has a "homicide rate"; if it looks like a homicide, that's generally what it gets recorded as.
Britain has a "murder rate", which requires a perp to be picked up, and convicted of murder, then to appeal the conviction, and the appeal to fail... and after all of that has happened, if anyone is still paying attention, it gets booked down as a "murder" for the year that the process is completed.
I don't know what proportion of homicides, that process actually picks up. I'd be very surprised if it gets as high as 10%. But even assuming 10%, that would mean that Britain's "murder rate" of around 0.3 per 100,000 population per year, represents a homicide rate of around 3 per 100,000 per year - which is roughly the same as the united state's figure.
It also means that what tends to show up in analyses of "murders" are the tearful cuckolded spouses, who call the cops, and who are still clutching the bloody carving knife and are covered in blood when the cops arrive. The gangland hit, stands next to no chance of showing up, unless the perp boasts about it, or their partner finds a sick souvenir in the freezer.
Back in 96, there was a British libertarian, who was sick of people dismissing his claim that guns are not difficult to make, so he made a sub machine gun, test fired it, wrote it up, and got a photographer friend around to photograph it. His friend snitched and he got 5 years amongst the hard bastards in a max security prison. His story continued, and the bureaucrats treatment of him got worse after that...
Philip Luty, did not need a lathe or a milling machine, only Bubba's household DIY tools and standard sizes of steel pipe, yet the British bureautw@s explored the possibility of licensing home workshops. I think his first book is still available from Paladin, and that his others still circulate on the net and peer to peer.
It's a difficult concept to get across to people, that a SMG actually turns out to be the easiest of guns to make (as easy or easier than a zip gun), and requires only some household tools and standard size steel tubing, not an elaborate production line.
Actual professional looking machine pistols from an underground manufacturer have been found with intercepted drugs cargoes going into the Netherlands.
We know from seizures of hard drugs that they can arrive in consignments of 10 tons and over. we also know that despite a 30 year or so "war on" that drugs are more available, stronger and cheaper now than when the "war on" started. The same happened with alcohol prohibition, and the same will likely happen with "gun prohibition".
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