Which group has killed 900 in Britain in 6 years?

[Litotes]

Unless you're claiming she wasn't female, it was quite clearly violence against a women.

 

This is descending into absurdity...

 

So I will contribute...

 

Yes, but it was a woman's fault - if his mother hadn't given birth then the lunatic wouldn't have been around to kill her...

[Cyclone]

You're right, that is pretty absurd.

[999tigger]

Quite possibly the silliest premise of any thread ever.

 

Explain why its silly?

[Ridgewalk]

It would be also interesting to see if there is any kind of specific cultural/religious background which is more accepting towards abusive behavior of men towards women But I guess such a statistic would not be politically correct...

 

I suspect alcohol is a more relevant "cultural" factor than religion which sort of scuppers your dog whistle inference

[Margarita Ma]

400 people committed suicide after being released from arrest in the last seven years.

[Guest]

Explain why its silly?

 

Its silly to downplay ISIS etc just because men kill 900 women in 6 years. They're two completely separate things. And by the way, men also kill men.

[Cyclone]

400 people committed suicide after being released from arrest in the last seven years.

 

And men are more likely to commit suicide than women.

 

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Its silly to downplay ISIS etc just because men kill 900 women in 6 years. They're two completely separate things. And by the way, men also kill men.

 

Helps to put it in perspective though doesn't it. People are really bad at assessing risk, they think they're in danger from terrorism, but every day take a greater risk by crossing the road.

[blake]

The biggest risk group for murder is babies under one year of age.

 

The next biggest risk group is young men between the ages of 16 and 29.

 

Overall, two-thirds of murder victims are male and only a third are female.

 

In addition, the overall murder rate is GOING DOWN. Somebody, be they male or female, is LESS LIKELY to be murdered than they were 20-30 years ago. Just like the road traffic related fatality rate is going down too and somebody is much less likely to die that way.

 

Terrorism-related mishaps remain a very low risk. But they're not going down like murders in general and road traffic accidents are. They're going up.. Somebody today has a greater chance of getting mixed up in some terrorism-related incident than they did 20-30 years ago.

[SkylinePhoto]

Murder is bad

Edited December 11, 2016 by SkylinePhoto

[blake]

Nobody is saying that when a male murders a female, often because they are just physically stronger than they are, then that isn't totally reprehensible

 

But men are likely to be murdered, and therefore more at risk, than women are.

 

Also, there is less murders overall now, than there was in the past. The situation is improving, and looks like it will continue to improve.

 

But terrorist incidents aren't getting less at all. Although the risk is very low, the likelihood of somebody being killed because of terrorist-related violence is getting more, not less.

 

So why is Bob Arctor drawing attention to a problem that is getting better, as if it is really important, but trying to say that a problem that is getting worse, is not important at all?

Edited December 11, 2016 by blake