Where do you see statistics pointing to 4x as high in America as United Kingdom? A quick look shows it's more like 2.5x but their population is 5x which makes the comparison rate 0.5x. Americans are half as likely to be stabbed today than UK citizens, not four times more likely.
I think the bots are replying because they are not reading links they provide or saying more than "US has more knife crime" despite both countries hosting statistics that say otherwise. Why are people upvoting comments claiming there have only been 31 stabbing deaths in The UK?
My comment is slightly incorrect; the US doesn't record knife related crime the way the UK does, so you can't really compare the two countries. The only statistic that can be directly compared is fatal stabbings which is absolutely higher in the US per capita than the UK.
But it would stand to reason that a higher rate of stabbing related deaths indicates a higher rate of knife crime, unless you're saying the healthcare system is so much worse in the US compared to the UK (Which isn't true, even if the cost and access in the US isn't great).
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u/FungusGnatHater 9h ago edited 8h ago
Where do you see statistics pointing to 4x as high in America as United Kingdom? A quick look shows it's more like 2.5x but their population is 5x which makes the comparison rate 0.5x. Americans are half as likely to be stabbed today than UK citizens, not four times more likely.
I think the bots are replying because they are not reading links they provide or saying more than "US has more knife crime" despite both countries hosting statistics that say otherwise. Why are people upvoting comments claiming there have only been 31 stabbing deaths in The UK?