Gun Laws in Wales Compared to America

Wales Online ^ | 15 FEB 2018 | Tyler MearsMegan Griffiths

[Winniesboy]

“Off the charts” or “the charts”? There’s certainly been a recent increase, focussed particularly on certain metropolitan areas and teenage (mostly black) gang culture. That’s disturbing. But that increase is from a very low base, the totals are still low by the standards of most other advanced Western countries, and the risk of experiencing violent crime is still vanishingly small for most people. Using such vague expressions as “off the charts” really doesn’t help.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its not recent. Violent crime has been rampant in the UK for a long time.

[Winniesboy]

Again, a generalisation which has little substance in fact. And unfortunately for any attempt to link the recent increase with gun control, the dates simply don't correlate. There has been no change in firearms legislation since the 1997 Act, and for much of the intervening period crimes of violence, and crime levels generally, actually decreased.

The majority of violent crimes have always been associated, lamentably, with drunken street brawling at pub chucking-out time. Occasionally somebody gets badly hurt, but usually the participants are too drunk to do each other serious damage. The recent surge in knife crime among young Afro-Caribbeans is a different matter, of course.