UK somehow manages fifth successive year with no mass shootings

[T_i_B]

http://newsthump.com/2015/12/04/uk-somehow-manages-fifth-successive-year-with-no-mass-shootings/

A country with strict gun control laws has somehow managed to go the entirety of 2015 with no mass shootings.

The achievement, widely agreed to be impossible by self-proclaimed firearm experts on the Internet, is being met with surprise and outright disbelief in the United States.

Experts in Gunology, which includes anyone with an Internet connection and a short temper, insist that the only way to avoid regular massacres is for everyone to be armed and decry anyone who thinks differently as ‘fukcin stupid basterds I shoud waist yer gay ass’, whatever that may mean.

Internet experts often cite studies drawn from the voices in their heads which suggest that people being unarmed increases their chances of being shot by, oooh, a million-billion percenticles or something. Sadly, they then go on to ignore that people being armed increases their chances of being shot by their own children by a similar amount.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. It is because they have a queen.

Everyone knows that.

[mmonk]

2. Where can we get one?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. we screwed that up. Canada did it right. They still have a queen.

[ananda]

3. An object lesson in rational governing.

nt

[Buzz Clik]

5. I'm assuming they have lots and lots of guns with tens of thousands of rounds of ammo per person.

That's the only answer to gun violence, so it must be true.

[Yorktown]

6. For some reason, the comparison does not cover beheadings

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That was horrific, but just one victim, so, no, not 'mass' (nt)

[VMA131Marine]

7. Intentional homicide rate in the UK: 1 per 100,000 (653 total in 2011)

intentional homicide rate in the US: 3.8 per 100,000 (12,253 in 2013)

Indonesia, with a diverse population of 255 million had a murder rate of 0.6 per 100k (1456 in 2012) - gun registration, background check and mental evaluation, licenses must be renewed every 5 years

The safest places you'd want to live are
Singapore: 0.2 homicides per 100k (11 in 2012)
Iceland: 0.3 per 100k (1 homicide in 2012)
Japan: 0.3 per 100k (442 in 2011) with very strict controls on firearms ownership

Incidentally, suicide rates in the US and UK are comparable at between 11 and 12 per 100,000 population