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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by _bxg1 on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:39AM (#23115987)
That's a fair point- such a change might have stricter gun control as a prerequisite (which for the record I think we also need).

I was struck recently, when I saw The Gentlemen (a film about marijuana empires in the UK). Even the crime lords were very averse to carrying guns because it was so illegal. People here always counter with "but the criminals will find ways to get them anyway", but I don't think that's a valid argument.

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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by _bxg1 on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#23116643)
Why would a detail like that be fictional?

Anyway, it lines up with the statistics: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44053904

> In England and Wales in 2016-17, there were 31 fatal shootings - or one for every 1.9 million people.

> In the US, in contrast, there were 11,000 murders or manslaughters involving a firearm or one death for every 30,000 people.

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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by radford-neal on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:41PM (#23117392)
That's a factor of 63 more fatal shootings in the US versus UK. I don't know whether it's correct or not, but it's certainly misleading. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... the homicide rate per 100000 people is 5.3 in the US versus 1.2 in the UK, a factor of 4.4 difference. Yes, more, but not 63 times more.

I think most people don't care whether they are going to be killed by a gun or by some other means.

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