🇬🇧 UK mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2000 - 2023: 7 (total deaths, 24).
🇺🇸 US mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2023: 201
2022: 647
2021: 690
The US firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 22 times greater than the rate of the EU.
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died principally from gun-related injuries in the US.
That figure includes gun murders, gun suicides, accidental gun deaths, those that involved law enforcement & cases that couldn't be determined.
Suicides account for the majority of US gun deaths.
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958).
Other gun deaths were: accidental (549); involved law enforcement (537); or had undetermined circumstances (458).
By contrast, in the UK, between April 2022 – March 2023, there were a total of 39 recorded gun deaths, including 25 homicides.
The more guns there are in society, the more gun violence there is. In the US some two thirds of homicides involve a gun while in the UK, around 5% do.
🇬🇧 The total homicide rate in the UK remains very low - 1.17/100,000 population during the year ending March 2022.
🇺🇸 Among advanced developed countries, the US has by far the highest homicide rate: 7.8/100,000 population in 2020.
University & College Union (UCU) general Secretary, Jo Grady, has agreed - "without any admission of liability" - to pay “substantial damages” to Paul Embery over tweets he claims falsely portrayed him as “a misogynist, a pervert & a liar”.
The @Twitter row between anti-woke GB "News" regular Embery, & UCU General Secretary Grady was quite widely reported, including in this 2nd March article in the Mirror, which frames it as "a very modern row".
Anti-woke GB "News" regular, Paul Embery, launched a libel claim against Dr Jo Grady over her response to him highlighting the anti-social behaviour of a group of train passengers on @Twitter.
Despite years of divisive scapegoating rhetoric from the UK Govt, the right-wing press, Spiked, GB "News", shock jocks, & people like Braverman, Farage, Laurence Fox, & #30pLee, the UK public now have among the most positive attitudes to diversity & immigration on earth!
"The most dramatic shifts have come in the US, Canada and, in particular, Britain, where the share of people saying there should be strict limits — if not an outright ban — on immigration has more than halved from 66% on the eve of the EU referendum to 31% last year." 🇬🇧
The unexpected success of right-wing authoritarian populist anti-immigration politics may have shocked previously complacent moderates into vocalising their support for #diversity.
We see similar shifts in the public’s attitude towards members of other ethnic groups & faiths.
“We need some action in our legislatures at the federal and state level for better gun control,” he said in an interview with MSNBC a day after the mass killing outside Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas. “And I’m saying that as someone who loves guns.”
The state’s unhinged Republican governor, Greg Abbott, went on Fox News to insist that 'the dearth of adequate mental health services' was the true culprit for mass shootings - despite fewer than 5% of violent cases having mental health links.
The Public Order Bill, which has now been passed by the UK Parliament, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly & association.
“This new law imposes serious & undue restrictions on these rights that are neither necessary nor proportionate to achieve a legitimate purpose as defined under international law.”
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
The use of inoculation within the public relations industry is not novel. The current study shows that organizations, when able, should proactively respond to astroturf attacks rather than ignore the attack.
Responding proactively with an inoculation message significantly improved crisis outcomes such as attitudes & behavioral intentions compared to no response. This is important, as crisis literature doesn't explicitly recommend organizations respond to all paracrisis situations.