In March of 2015 American police killed more people, 111, than police killed in the entire United Ki

[tishaLA]

A total of 111 people were killed by police in the United States in March of 2015. Since 1900, in the entire United Kingdom, 52 people have been killed by police.

Don't bother adjusting for population differences, or poverty, or mental illness, or anything else. The sheer fact that American police kill TWICE as many people per month as police have killed in the modern history of the United Kingdom is sick, preposterous, and alarming. <...>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/01/1374908/-American-police-killed-more-people-in-March-111-than-in-the-entire-United-Kingdom-since-1900

[Agschmid]

1. We have very different cultures when it comes to guns.

I don't really see it as comparable...

I understand why people compare it but in my mind it's not valid.

[tishaLA]

3. even given cultural differences, the disparity is shociking

and frankly pretty alarming, especially "culture" is something we can alter should we choose to

[Agschmid]

4. I don't think everyone wants to alter it.

[gcomeau]

5. Which is kind of a big part of the point.

That "different culture" is a massive problem.

[Skittles]

6. it's not valid?

the fact that America is filled with NRA-worshiping paranoid assholes isn't a factor?

[Agschmid]

9. Like it or not its part of America.

England has it too but they also don't have pieces of their constitution which allow the laws we currently have in place.

Do you think all NRA members commit murder? I'd guess the answer is "no"...

[Skittles]

12. I lived many years in England

I never once met a gun humper - here, they are a dime a dozen - paranoid, stupid assholes

[Agschmid]

14. I've lived many years in Mass and have also never met a "gun humper"

Mass has many of the same laws as the rest of the nation, so what's the difference?

[Skittles]

15. you need to get out more

[Agschmid]

16. Haha I'm good here in my liberal paradise, thanks.

[Skittles]

18. wanna guess which state has the oldest active gun club?

[Agschmid]

19. Wanna guess which state has Plimouth Rock?

Seriously that's what you've got?

[Skittles]

21. it was just a trivia question!!

JAYSUS

[think]

2. America really needs to wake up and take a look at itself. We are suppose to be the great nation

that the world looks up to and admires.

Instead we are more and more looking like a declining empire that is in complete denial.....

[Skittles]

7. we have DUers more offended by penis analogies than by massacred children

it's a sick, SICK culture

[Doctor_J]

8. that's because all of the police and criminals here are armed

[Skittles]

10. everyone armed, everyone paranoid is the NRA wet dream

fuck them all

[nichomachus]

11. And yet so many victims of the police

Turn out to be unarmed.

[Skittles]

22. when everyone is armed and paranoid

there will be casualties

[tishaLA]

13. so the police only shoot and kill criminals?

and all those criminals are armed? ALL?

In March:

Police beat Phillip White to death in New Jersey. He was unarmed.

Police shot and killed Meagan Hockaday, a 26-year-old mother of three.

Police shot and killed Nicholas Thomas, an unarmed man on his job at Goodyear in metro Atlanta.

Police shot and killed Anthony Hill, an unarmed war veteran fighting through mental illness, in metro Atlanta.

[Doctor_J]

20. by and large yes. But with the NRA holding sway, ANYONE could be carrying

Do you deny that the proliferation of guns is a huge problem?

[tishaLA]

23. I don't deny froliferation is a huge problem, no. I do deny the assertion

that "all of the ... criminals here are armed." And I don't even know that the assertion is a response to the deaths because it's unclear to me how many of the people killed by police in March were actually criminals.

[Fred Sanders]

17. 300 million guns in the hands of 340 million citizens versus...what is it in UK again?

Not to mention a militarized police force, radicalized police forces, police forces that are really militias, Sheriffs that are really racist politicians, a 37% election turnout, a paranoid citizenry juiced up on Fox, ISIS, Muslims, Obama D.S., Iran, Putin and NRA propaganda.......I know I missed a few things.

[seveneyes]

24. Don't bother adjusting for population differences...or anything else?

Of course not, that would only make the numbers meaningful.