SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

No it's not;


http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-...r-term-trends-

For the purposes of this thread (skeet shooting!) check this out too;

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-...olent-crime-co

Evidently lots more people being thrown out of windows in the US compared to Europe.

did you actually read those links?

From the second one you provided

"The number of homicides has increased from around 300 per year in the early 1960s to over 800
per year in the early years of this century. More recently the number of homicides has fallen and
these provisional data show that homicide is at its lowest level since 1983 (when 550 were also
recorded). [which is a good sign maybe, but still more of periods when guns bans weren't in place].
To put the latest homicide figures in context, there were three times as many victims of road deaths
(1,715) reported to the police in England and Wales in 20113 (although levels of deaths on the roads
have also shown some marked decreases in recent years). [How about we adjust this number then? Getting a license nowadays is a JOKE, but we don't want to upset the automotive and oil market do we?!]
In addition, provisional data show that offences involving a firearm (other than air weapons)
recorded by the police fell by 16 per cent (to 5,911) in 2011/12 compared with the previous year.
This is consistent with a steady fall in offences involving a firearm since 2005/06, when more than
11,000 offences were recorded (annual trend tables D19 and D20). [so we're still having firearms incidents despite the ban... mmmmh what does that mean? Probably that criminals are still capable of getting hold of them and citizen were deprived of them because of the government political agenda?! Must be great to be a sheep... ]"