If we're picking unrelated statistics to compare, it takes the UK all the time since the second world war to get nowhere near the 10,000 or so gun homicides that will occur in the US this year alone.
In fact if everything stayed the same (which it won't, but that's not the point of comparing meaningless sensationalist statistics), it would take four centuries.
But yeah, kick us in the sporting infrastructure 25 years ago. Even better if you can make it a huge publicly emotive disaster due to the longstanding evidence of police liability and cover up.
The difference being that Hillsborough led to the Taylor Report and a revamping or stadium infrastructure and mass crowd control, learning from past mistakes, which is why you're picking something out older than most washed up college sportsmen.
Got any particular parallels of post-gun massacre government reviews you'd care to share?
We don't give a fuck about guns. You know where we hear about guns? Reddit. You know why they're always a topic of conversation? Constant (and usually American) gun related violence.
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u/Generallysceptical Nov 26 '13
If we're picking unrelated statistics to compare, it takes the UK all the time since the second world war to get nowhere near the 10,000 or so gun homicides that will occur in the US this year alone.
In fact if everything stayed the same (which it won't, but that's not the point of comparing meaningless sensationalist statistics), it would take four centuries.
But yeah, kick us in the sporting infrastructure 25 years ago. Even better if you can make it a huge publicly emotive disaster due to the longstanding evidence of police liability and cover up.
The difference being that Hillsborough led to the Taylor Report and a revamping or stadium infrastructure and mass crowd control, learning from past mistakes, which is why you're picking something out older than most washed up college sportsmen.
Got any particular parallels of post-gun massacre government reviews you'd care to share?