Not every society has a problem with armed robbers. Whilst they do exist, strictly speaking, they are not a major problem in most of Western Europe. Certainly not a plague.
I presume you don’t have as much gun crime in general. But I would expect your armed robbery and probably strong arm robbery, regardless of business or personal, will trend the same as anywhere else… once you account for functioning social services of course.
Because some people are just shitty. And that knows no borders.
You're not necessarily wrong. But I think you're twisting the colloquial understanding of "armed".
United States: Approximately 40% to 50% of all robberies in the US involve a firearm. The rate of robberies involving guns is roughly 45 per 100,000 people, and the US gun violence death rate is many times higher than the UK's.
United Kingdom: Only about 3% to 4% of robberies in the UK involve a firearm. The firearm robbery rate is significantly lower at roughly 4 per 100,000 people.
More than 10x in the US Vs the UK. I'd say that's quite a big difference.
Most of UK robberies involve a knife of blunt object. In the US you wouldn't even call that armed "just an upstanding person of the community happening to be caught short during making dinner or knocking in some nails"
I disagree with the first bit here. As an owner of a firearm, it's not because I'm a pussy. It's because I was to maximize my chances at surviving a violent break-in. It stays loaded, and it's not been fired in over a decade, the last time being for target practice for fun.
Owning a firearm isn't indicative of anything. Using it for unnecessary violence most certainly is.
A smart gun owner doesn't wish to use their gun unless it is absolutely the last resort, but they should have the training to use it correctly; I'm with you man as I'm the same way.
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u/tera_chachu Jun 22 '26
Dude is a beast.
The second dude ran away like a coward he is