re gun control was re we re mad as hell at the tv news in article c b amf magpie linknet com manes magpie linknet com steve manes writes last year the us suffered almost wrongful or accidental deaths by handguns alone fbi statistics in the same year the uk suffered such deaths scotland yard statistics the population of the uk is about that of the us weighted for population the us has x as many handgun related deaths as the uk and no the brits don t make up for this by murdering x as many people with baseball bats if you examine the figures they do stabbing is favourite closely followed by striking punching kicking many more people are burnt to death in britain as are shot to death take at look and you ll see for yourself it means that very few people are shot to death in great britain and i m sure that is a great comfort to the widows and children of those stabbed beaten and burned to death the real question is did the crime rate in england go down after they enacted gun control laws if you look at the rates before and after their first such law in you will see no effect frank crary cu boulder
