Communities around the U.S. have seen shootings carried out with weapons converted to fully automatic in recent years, fueled by a staggering increase in small pieces of metal or plastic made with a 3D printer or ordered online. Laws against machine guns date back to the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters. But the proliferation of devices known by nicknames such as Glock switches, auto sears and chips has allowed people to transform legal semi-automatic weapons into even more dangerous guns, helping fuel gun violence, police and federal authorities said.
The (ATF) reported a 570% increase in the number of conversion devices collected by police departments between 2017 and 2021, the most recent data available.
The devices that can convert legal semi-automatic weapons can be made on a 3D printer in about 35 minutes or ordered from overseas online for less than $30. They’re also quick to install.
“It takes two or three seconds to put in some of these devices into a firearm to make that firearm into a machine gun instantly,” Dettelbach said.
UK knife crime per capita is lower than that of US knife crime and US has gun crime on top of that.
There is no evidence that overall rates stay the same if gun violence gets reduced, but there is evidence that reductions in gun crime also reduce other types of violence. Meaning you’re talking the opposite of truth.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
It’s just silly NRA propaganda without a shred of evidence for it. Just like all rhetoric against gun control.
Depends who you ask and comparisons like these are almost definitely flawed by how different countries do reporting.
e.g. this site says the UK has slightly more knife deaths than the US https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/stabbing-deaths-by-country/#united-states-of-america
Then you’ve also got to consider differences in treatment. Are there more stabbings but less deaths because they’re treated better in the US? Conversely, maybe the problem is even worse in the UK but because of their health care system they’re treated better resulting in fewer deaths.
Then we also need to consider repeat offenders and rehabilitation. Is the knife crime higher in the UK but repeat offenders are lower because of treatment?
Anyways, point being, this is the exact kind of statement that requires pointing out correlation does not equate to causation. In fact, this could be further evidence that guns are not the problem.
As for your source… These are the primary conclusions of the authors (direct quote):
I didn’t read the whole thing but … If you’ve got a specific page, paragraph, etc on the whole correlation thing, I’d be willing to hear you out.
And even if he were right, when was the last time you heard of someone in the UK stabbing a hundred people at a concert, or thirty kids in an elementary school?
There’s been at least one organized mass stabbing in China, I don’t think everyone died but over a hundred people were stabbed by a half dozen or so attackers.
Cool. There are over 600 mass shootings in the U.S. every year.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874
So a “half-dozen” people organized to do with knives what one American could do with a gun?
Something that in the us is called a “Tuesday”, we might add.
Exactly.
A knife is nowhere near as dangerous as a semi-automatic weapon.
The main point is that he’s completely wrong, though.
Yeah no it’s not. You’re try to compare a place with social safety nets to a country that doesn’t have any.
Trying to compare the EU to the USA for anything gun wise is pointless.
Here’s the company America is in, worldwide, for the right to own guns.
Only 3 countries in the world protect the right to bear arms in their constitutions: the US, Mexico, and Guatemala
The Czech Republic does as well. Mexico doesn’t really count, it’s basically impossible to get a firearm as a civ and the cartels have basically all the weapons
Actually, to that point, EU v US is a better comparison than “a country the size of Michigan” v US.
Excuses and bullshit. Zero evidence for anything you’re saying. Stop perpetuating shitty NRA propaganda.
https://infogram.com/us-vs-uk-on-knife-crime-1hmr6gyrxmlo6nl
It’s the guns.
Gun control works as surely as antibiotics do.
Lol no it’s not. The UK has no where near what we have when it comes to civ gun ownership. There are more guns in civ hands than all armies combined basically. When Australia did their forced buyback they had a 60% turn in rate…they had 1mil in civ hands at that time. Do you know what 40% is of 450 million firearms? Still more than all other nations that allow their citizens to even look at a firearm.
We have a very small sub set of people who commit gun violence. Do you think they’ll be the ones to turn them in? No. Because most legally cannot own them now.
Gun control works great if you have safety nets already in place so people don’t turn to crime to survive.
Also the NRA can fuck off… it’s always hilarious when you think you’re arguing with some Republican NRA dipshit.
Never any evidence, just regurgitating bullshit propaganda, ZzZZzzZzZzzzz
Come back when you have actual science instead of this childish garbage.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/policy-evaluation/
What bullshit did I spew? The NRA just says mental health and gun control doesn’t work. You listed a link to fucking Harvard which is known to directly make studies to say what they want. This isn’t news.
I’ve stated that safety nets in countries with less crime in general isn’t because they have less guns. It’s because their citizens are taken care of. Are you really going to sit there and say this isn’t true?
Suicides…guns do not magically make people more prone to suicide, this is and has always been false. Japan is one of the strictest countries on the planet for access to firearms. Yet they have a suicide rate that is far greater than ours. Are you suggesting their miniscule amount of suicides is related to their access to firearms?
Ah yes, the NRA doesn’t bullshit while having no science, but Harvard is “known to directly make studies say what they want”
Thanks for saving me time in not having a conversation with a science denying brainwashed hillbilly.
You keep saying things, but unfortunately we sane people live in the real world and here we back things up with data.
All of which shows you’re wrong, which makes you cry, so you think you’re gonna “argue” the matter, again repeating the same childish NRA talking points.
Which this time is literally “nahh dem Haarvaard boyss are making their stoodies saying what they is thinking they are need to say”. It’s not like peer-reviewed science has established practices to require proof and verification right? //s
Roflmao
If there’s one thing the last four years have taught us, it’s that there’s an overwhelming number of Americans who disagree with both sides of that analogy.
Antibiotics? You mean vaccines. Two very different things. If anything, those Americans are into antibiotics too much to the point that they thought taking them would stop COVID.
If Trump told them to never take antibiotics, they’d throw them all out that day.