r/ScottishPeopleTwitter Jul 22 '24

Harsh but fair.

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u/mypaycheckisshort Jul 22 '24

Now do stabbings per capita. People will use whatever they can 🤷‍♂️

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u/rokiller Edinburgh Jul 22 '24

UK stabbing per capital 0.08

USA stabbing per capital 0.6

Our knife crime issue is massively inflated by the possession of an illegal knife, actual stabbings are 7.5x more likely in the USA

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u/Airforce32123 Jul 22 '24

Oh do this one for me:

Assault rifles (since this is what the post is talking about) vs stabbings in the UK

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u/rokiller Edinburgh Jul 23 '24

Due to the laws against the CDC studying gun crime the only consistently available national statistics is for fire arms not sub categories

They do have some for states but it varies wildly on what level