Posted: Oct 06, 2017 3:18 pm
laklak wrote:We focus on mass shootings because they're newsworthy,
They're newsworthy but, they are also an event that is distinct from routine homicide. The changes in UK gun law were made to mitigate against the chances of another mass shooting occurring, rather than simply to reduce homicides overall.
In terms of the US, if changes in gun control law reduce the frequency of mass shootings from what they are now and indeed if they can make it so its at least twenty years until the next one, then those changes in the law would have done their job, even if the homicide rate itself didn't change very much.
laklak wrote:I've said this before, the only place I've ever been a victim of personal, violent crime is the UK. This despite living in places like the USA, Johannesburg, and Lagos.
Which only goes to show.............actually I'm not sure what it goes to show.