A local Fox affiliate news anchor not only debunks Piers Morgan's false statistics he keeps spewing but then goes on to utterly destroy Morgan's whole assertion about the violence in the UK.
Below is the video of Cincinnati Fox affiliate WXIX's Ben Swann as he systematically proves Morgan as the liar he is, and beneath that are some highlights about the statistics from the UK and the U.S.
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Highlights from the video above, via NewsBusters:
“The U.S. has the highest gun ownership rate in the world, an average of 88 guns per 100 people,” Swann stated. “That puts it first in the world for gun ownership.”
If there was a significant correlation between gun ownership and homicide, America should therefore be one of the highest nations in the world in terms of gun-related murders per fixed number of people.
Not so said Swann. “Honduras, El Salvador, and Jamaica have higher rates. So do 24 other countries. The U.S., despite being number one in gun ownership is number 28 in gun homicide with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people.”
But here’s where it really gets interesting.
“The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU,” Swann said. “The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate, the fourth highest burglary rate. But more importantly, the EU named Britain as the most violent country in the EU.”
Swann noted that in the UK, there are 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people. By contrast, there are 466 violent crimes per 100,000 here in America.
“We’re not even in the top ten,” Swann said.
This means that Britain’s violent crime rate is over five times that of the U.S.
Game. Set. Match.
