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The New DU. Reply #57: In the very long term, US homicide rate has always been about 3X that of UK
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Sat Jan-13-07 11:08 AM
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| 57. In the very long term, US homicide rate has always been about 3X that of UK |
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I'm too lazy to look it up on a holiday weekend especially after working until midnight last night, but statistics are available from about 1900 to present for both countries. Before 1920 neither had any real gun control laws. The US had none until 1934. Over the long haul, the murder rate of the UK has consistently been about 1/3 that of the US, sometimes a little more or a little less than that. The murder rates of both countries are correlated rather well with the unemployment rate.
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