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That's not working too well in England.

Property crime has fallen considerably since 1995. Overall household acquisitive crime, as measured by the BCS, has fallen by more than half (55%) between 1995 and 2005/06.

Just under half (49%) of all violent incidents reported to the BCS did not result in any injury to the victim. A similar proportion (47%) of all police recorded violence against the person in 2005/06 involved no injury.

Police recorded robbery increased by 8% between 2004/05 and 2005/06. This is still 19% below the 2001/02 peak in robbery.

There were 765 homicides in 2005/06, a decrease of 12% from the previous year. The homicide figure of 765 includes 52 homicide victims of the 7 July London bombings. The number of police recorded firearm offences increased by less than 1%.

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/statistics/statistics50.htm

The annual crime statistics released by the Home Office reveal an apparent 5% rise in violent crime, 10% rise in vandalism and a 3% increase in robbery in 2006/07. But the increases are matched by continuing falls in burglary, car crime and sex offences.


Home Office criminologists portrayed Britain as becoming a "less violent nation" with half a million fewer violent crime victims than in 1995 - a fall of 45%. They insisted yesterday that the 5% rise in violent crime recorded by the BCS was "not statistically significant".

Their claims are supported by a fall in the murder rate to its lowest level for eight years with 755 homicides, and a 13% fall in gun crime according to the police. Death by dangerous driving however is becoming an increasing problem with a record 462 killed this way last year.

The risk of becoming a victim of crime is 24% - one in four - compared with 40% in 1995. The most likely target of a violent attack is a young man under 21 living in one of the most deprived social areas, followed by students and the unemployed. Those who live in "up and coming" or "improving" areas also have a higher than average risk of being a crime victim if they live next to a high crime hotspot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2130768,00.html

The fall in gun crime, down from 11,371 incidents to 9,728 in the year to last September, was welcomed by the Home Office minister Tony McNulty. But he acknowledged the small increase in residential robberies involving firearms: "We have some of the toughest firearms legislation in Europe. Anyone convicted of having a prohibited firearm faces a minimum five-year sentence."

The number of people killed in gun attacks was unchanged at 57 - down from a peak of more than 70 two years ago.

The rise in armed residential robberies from 345 in 2003-04 to 645 last year is an alarming trend but it may partly be accounted for by a similar decline of 200 incidents recorded by the police as firearm burglaries. The long-term decline in the number of armed robberies on banks, post offices and building societies revealed in the figures spells the death of the elite "blag".

The number of armed bank robberies has fallen from 240 in 1995 to only 59 and those involving post offices are also down, from nearly 400 to 108 over the same period. The decline is not explained by branch closures but rather by much improved security measures which have made such premises a "hard target".

The total number of armed robberies rose by 10% to 4,120 from 3,674 over the last 12 months but it is still below the peak of nearly 5,500 such attacks five years ago.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1999201,00.html

Britain has one of the world's lowest gun homicide rates - 0.04 slayings per 100,000 people, according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey for 2004. That puts Britain on par with Japan, where the rate is 0.03 per 100,000.

By contrast, the United States has a rate roughly 100 times higher: 3.42 gun murders per 100,000 people, the survey said.

The U.S. ranked 13th highest out of 112 countries, according to a 2006 study by Wendy Cukier, a professor at Ryerson University in Canada who writes on violence prevention strategies. It appears in a book she co-wrote, "The Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s."

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Peter Squires, a criminologist at Britain's University of Brighton, said there are significant cultural differences between his country and the U.S. that would make it hard to disarm American citizens.

"We are very much a paternalistic, collective society," he said. American society is "more individual" and has a deeply ingrained sense of "a right and duty to self-defense," he said.

Jan Dizard, a professor of sociology at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and editor of "Guns in America," a collection of essays on America's gun culture, agrees. "Gun laws are not going to make us like Japan," he said.

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Most of you that have a negative view of guns have never fired a pistol and are uneducated about using a weapon, educate yourselves before you make judgements about people that own firearms and are responsible gun owners , FEAR ( false evidence appearing real)

History has time and again showed that an unarmed populace is ripe for genocide. Witness Nazi Germany, Stalin and Mao. 100's of millions dead.

Guess what? It'll never happen in America.