r/memes • u/Total_Volume_1096 • 6h ago

....and justice for all.

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u/kingweeb6667 5h ago

How you guys doing with that event at arndale manchester mall abt a month ago?

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u/jimbobsqrpants 5h ago

There is still less homicides in the UK every year from guns, than a single month in Chicago.

With 65 million more people in the UK than Chicago.

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u/kingweeb6667 5h ago

And chicago is the most violent city in america, that's the exception, not the rule.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 4h ago edited 48m ago

There are 12 large cities in the US with a population of approx. 1 million residents or more.

These cities have an average homicide rate of ~7x that of London, with the highest at ~13x.

Smaller cities like St Louis have a rate ~60x higher than London's (and no that's not a typo, that's sixty times higher).

The most shocking statistic? Even the US major city with the lowest homicide rate is still almost double that of London's.

London's homicide rate would rank in the bottom 1st percentile compared to large (>250k population) US cities. Now that's a comparison that speaks volumes.

EDIT: Dnu who's downvoting, you can Google this yourself. It's all true, the statistics don't lie.