How's that Gun Control Working Out for You

How's that Gun Control Working Out for You?

The Daily Mail reports:

The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

"Loutish behavior"?? Would that be the kind of behavior that leads British police to give victims "spit kits" so they can collect DNA evidence from their attackers?

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party's election in 1997,

Remember: all legally-owned handguns were banned after the 1996 Dunblane massacre

the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158 million - or more than two every minute.

The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

* The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
* It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

And this is DESPITE THE FACT that the UK has "the toughest gun laws in the world" - laws that the government promised would "protect the public."

* The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
* It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.



The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.

No, instead they kept pursuing "gun control" and civilian victim disarmament. As Say Uncle puts it: "Gun control - what you do instead of something."