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US have taken the bizarre step of banning costumes and fake guns from cinemas. Real guns are allowed.
It's a terrible tragedy RIP to all
We need to stop looking at this as if it happened here, don't forget what mite seem normal in our culture here mite be slightly different elsewhere, ok we share lots with the USA but there are differences!
Yes TB, the americans seem to put the the right to bear arms by individuals above the safety of the population as a whole. Unfortunately these things will continue to happen while guns are so readily available.
Did the survivors get to see the film in the end that they had paid to see?
Drastic™;1415665 said:Infact I'd think they'd never want to see a batman film ever again.
Sweeping generalisation much? Just because the NRA shouts loudest doesn't mean all americans think that way (much like the tea-baggers). The NRA has 4.3m members, us population 313.9m.
According to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, US citizens owned around 290 million guns between them.
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp this website estimates 70 - 80m americans own guns.
To me that seems a lot of people and a lot of guns.
Just to clarify UK figures show that homocide rates (which includes manslaughter and infanticide) have steadily decreased from 1047 in 202/03 to 550 in 2011/12 and attempted murder has decreased from 882 to 483 in the same period.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/14/crime-statistics-england-wales
See the UK is a safer place. Perhaps the more immigrants we let in the safer the UK will become :net:
On a more positive note murder and violent crimes are on a steady decrease in the US. Murder is apparently reaching historic lows.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...es-in-the-us-drop-approach-historic-lows?lite
We have our lowest murder rate since 1983
http://www.channel4.com/news/uk-murder-rate-falls-to-its-lowest-for-almost-30-years
record lows in canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/26/homicides-statscan.html
Here's a really in depth report of global murder rates for anyone who's is really bored
http://www.unodc.org/documents/data...Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf
The pure murder figures, due to the changing manslaughter/murder distinction, need to be considered with caution. However there does seem to be a genuine trend toward declining violent crime generally across the developed world in particular.
In the aftermath of horrendous crimes like this it's too easy to fall into the mindset of the average daily mail reader and think that the western world is falling into a moral abyss when actually in terms of violent crime the world is actually getting a lot better.
One of the theories about this is that the declines are being driven by the historical decline in domestic violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/19/falling-murder-rate-domestic-violence?newsfeed=true
So cheer up everyone the world is getting safer year by year. Perhaps we should all stop being so easily daily mailed into be being scared of strangers, ethnic minorities, young people, etc etc.
Could it be less murders though due to better treatments for gun shots?
Good shout apple although not everyone agrees.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102895/Immigrant-crimewave-warning-Foreign-nationals-accused-QUARTER-crimes-London.html
Mind you if they get on with killing each other I don't suppose many people will care.
Sometimes I think that one day the owners of the mail will announce that the newspaper has been one big joke and that really its a peice of genius satire which has taken the art of irony to a new level. Then I wake up and accept the fact that it has always been a far right vehicle to manipulate the minds of simple people, like steveo (no offense).
Didn't take you long to bite on a Daily Mail quote did it?
Oh, and why would do you assume I might take offense? I've never taken offense at an opinion of a lefty loser who I care nothing about, and I certainly won't start with you.
Yet another murderous gun attack in the US. Denver this time. Intersting the gunman was wearing a gas mask as one of the somewhat odd murals at Denver Airport may be depicting this attack:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18921492
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Denver Airport mural