Adjusted to the U.S. population that’s about 1500 deaths per year as opposed to around the 50,000 gun deaths the US sees in a year.
Adjusted to the U.S. population that’s about 1500 deaths per year as opposed to around the 50,000 gun deaths the US sees in a year.
The rate dropped 38% in the US and 27% in the UK, which banned handguns in 1996.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/mur...
*I would've used the most recent US number (2020), but I couldn't find that data for the UK to compare apples to apples.
UK homicide rate: 1.1, Black population: 3.15%, homicide rate/Black %: 0.35 (0.65x that of the US)
So gun control seems to have helped, but not as much as 1500 vs 50,000. It would be interesting to see the homicide rate for UK Blacks specifically, but I could only find data about homicide victims by race, not perpetrators. Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...