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fandomsecrets2012-12-28 07:00 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2187 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2187 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)The gun laws in the UK are extremely strict. And the rates of death by gun violence are extremely low. (See below for numbers.) In the BBC Sherlock show, Watson having a gun is an anomaly, he makes a point of keeping it hidden because he's really not supposed to have it. The cabbie's gun in the very first episode is in fact a lighter. Almost all the guns we see on the show are held by criminals, held by heroes who have just stolen them from criminals, brandished by the morally dubious CIA agents who are definitely antagonists if not outright villains, and held by the soldiers in John's war flashback dreams.
Even the police are seldom seen carry guns, the only time I can think of is when Lestrade is "off the grid" hunting the Hound, and he presumably has a license to carry it.
Deaths in the UK from firearms in 2009: 138
Deaths in the USA from firearms in 2009: 11,493
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-kingdom
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Should have picked a more appropriate picture, Mr/Ms Troll, that one wasn't the best choice at all.
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 03:40 am (UTC)(link)Estimated Population UK in 2009: 61,126,832
Estimated POpulation US 2009: 305,529,237
Thus, what you actually want is the ratio of deaths by firearms per person, or percentage of population dead because of firearms, essentially.
Those numbers would be:
UK: 0.0002258%
US: 0.003762%
It's a figure that makes more sense. Ideally, you'd want an estimate of the number of deaths in each country for 2009 and then the ratio of fire-arm related deaths to all deaths, but I am too lazy to try and hunt down that information.
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)