How safe do you feel in Ireland?

freshpopcorn

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I generally feel very safe in Ireland!

How safe do you feel in Ireland?

readyletsgo

Ugh, Facebook. Ireland is one of the safest places in the world, give or take a few psychos, but they are in every country.

Kimbot

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I generally feel very safe in Ireland!

How safe do you feel in Ireland?

Murder happens everywhere including china.

mzungu

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I generally feel very safe in Ireland!

How safe do you feel in Ireland?

Very safe. As countries go, Ireland is pretty much one of the most safe and open countries you could hope to live in. Sure, there is a few arseholes about the place, but you get that everywhere.

Regarding China, if your friend was living there she wouldn't have been able to post that to Facebook Anyways, there most certainly are murders in China, lots of them in fact. Once you move out of the glitz of the big cities, you will find some parts rural China would not far off from the third world. Thankfully we don't have that kind of poverty here either.

Collie D

Tell her to shut it or you'll kill her

ohnonotgmail

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I generally feel very safe in Ireland!

How safe do you feel in Ireland?

is that why china has a higher murder rate than ireland?

me_irl

Of course when you're reading such a myopic view of things, that's when the unnecessary panic and paranoia sets in.

*looks out window, hears birds chirping*

Cina

Incredibly safe.

I think that woman needs to go to Tibet so she can see how safe parts of China really are.

freshpopcorn

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

is that why china has a higher murder rate than ireland?

No idea. The woman says it's a safer place tough!

Kintarō Hattori

I'd really be taking what you read on Facebook with a pinch of salt OP. As entertaining, practical and useful as it is, it does attract a lot of people who believe and promote the most god awful crap. If you read into it too much you'll believe the world is falling apart, there are global conspiracies etc.

Get off of Facebook, read more reputable sources of news, watch some news channels, read some papers etc and you'll find that while Ireland does have many varying issues, it is for the most part really rather safe and not having a death penalty is rather a good thing. Look at countries that do have the death penalty and I think you'll find that those places are in fact a lot more dangerous.

whisky_galore

jonnycivic wrote: »

Murder happens everywhere including china.

They have government-sanctioned murder...

seamus

This is why you fact check every claim you hear on facebook

Ireland is one of the safest countries on the planet.

greencap

Target is looking out the window at a bird.

Take the shot.

ohnonotgmail

freshpopcorn wrote: »

No idea. The woman says it's a safer place tough!

so basically your OP is nonsense. you need to listen to smarter people.

draiochtanois

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Atlantic Dawn

Outside gangland the rate of murder in this country between people who don't know each other already is tiny.

Yourself isit

Dublin had more shootings per capita than London. That said it's pretty confined.

Dublin seems more hostile than some more dangerous cultures because of the visible drug issues though.

ohnonotgmail

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Outside gangland the rate of murder in this country between people who don't know each other already is tiny.

even gangland murders are vastly overstated. there were approximately 11 gangland murders last year. even the overall murder rate is tiny. we have as many murders in a year as new york does in a month.

The Backwards Man

I've been living here a long time and I haven't been murdered yet

Yourself isit

It is however going loco down in Acapulco

freshpopcorn

Just to clarify. I'm the OP and I don't take things such on Facebook seriously. I was just wondering does any Boards member have similar view as this woman.

ohnonotgmail

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Just to clarify. I'm the OP and I don't take things such as this seriously. I was just wondering does any Boards member have similar view as this woman.

i would hope that there is nobody posting here that is dumb enough to agree with her.

Grayson

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've been living here a long time and I haven't been murdered yet

Yet......

Grayson

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i would hope that there is nobody posting here that is dumb enough to agree with her.

There will be someone.There's always someone.

ohnonotgmail

Grayson wrote: »

There will be someone.There's always someone.

my post was more in hope than expectation.

The Backwards Man

Grayson wrote: »

Yet......

Ah well. .

If you live long enough you'll die of something

Alun

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Just to clarify. I'm the OP and I don't take things such on Facebook seriously. I was just wondering does any Boards member have similar view as this woman.

How can you have a "view" on something that is easily confirmed one way or another, it's either true or it isn't and a random person on the Internet's opinions is neither here or there.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

China 10,083 or 0.74 per 100,000 inhabitants (2014)
Ireland 30, or 0.64 per 100,1000 inhabitants (2015)

freshpopcorn

Alun wrote: »

How can you have a "view" on something that is easily confirmed one way or another, it's either true or it isn't and a random person on the Internet's opinions is neither here or there.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

China 10,083 or 0.74 per 100,000 inhabitants (2014)
Ireland 30, or 0.64 per 100,1000 inhabitants (2015)

I all ready researched these.
I just wanted to know did Boards user feel the same as this woman.

Yourself isit

Alun wrote: »

How can you have a "view" on something that is easily confirmed one way or another, it's either true or it isn't and a random person on the Internet's opinions is neither here or there.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

China 10,083 or 0.74 per 100,000 inhabitants (2014)
Ireland 30, or 0.64 per 100,1000 inhabitants (2015)

Both very low by world standards. Maybe she meant Singapore (0.25)

Bushmanpm

America has the death penalty in some states and its done wonders for their homicide rates

freshpopcorn

Yourself isit wrote: »

Both very low by world standards. Maybe she meant Singapore (0.25)

She said China.
People were agreeing with her tough. I honestly feel some people need a reality check sometimes.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I generally feel very safe in Ireland!

How safe do you feel in Ireland?

China? Just over 10000 homicides in 2014 (0.74 per 100k) compared to Ireland with 30 (0.6). Yes obviously much safer due to the death penalty. :rolleyes:

Widdershins

I feel safe enough in Ireland. I feel safer in Ireland than I did in England.
I could confidently leave my front door and car unlocked at night, if I wanted to.

gitzy16v

Widdershins wrote: »

I feel safe enough in Ireland. I feel safer in Ireland than I did in England.
I could confidently leave my front door and car unlocked at night, if I wanted to.

I could do the same but not confidently.
I'm not in Dublin but not in the countryside either.

But your right there is tons of places in this country where you can leave things unlocked without fear and a good few are less than 30 miles from Dublin or less from other large cities in Ireland.

Best country in the world(bit of wilderness would be nice though)

Glenster

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I recently read a post Facebook page in which a woman was saying the death penalty should be reintroduced because Ireland is such a dangerous place compared to China because they have the death penalty and murder doesn't happen in China because of it. She also went on to claim that we murder lots of out elderly and Ireland is far more dangerous than New York to live.

I was walking down the street yesterday and some kids drove by in a car, rolled down the window and said I was gay.

They said people in China were a lot less gay because they didn't wear stupid brown shoes like me.

They went onto claim that I'm gay because I love the penis, and that I'm even gayer than people in gay clubs in San Francisco.

ohnonotgmail

Glenster wrote: »

I was walking down the street yesterday and some kids drove by in a car, rolled down the window and said I was gay.

They said people in China were a lot less gay because they didn't wear stupid brown shoes like me.

They went onto claim that I'm gay because I love the penis, and that I'm even gayer than people in gay clubs in San Francisco.

do you?

Yourself isit

Glenster wrote: »

I was walking down the street yesterday and some kids drove by in a car, rolled down the window and said I was gay.

They said people in China were a lot less gay because they didn't wear stupid brown shoes like me.

They went onto claim that I'm gay because I love the penis, and that I'm even gayer than people in gay clubs in San Francisco.

They were oddly specific about china and brown shoes.

biko

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I all ready researched these.
I just wanted to know did Boards user feel the same as this woman.

People are emotional and therefore stats are a better way to know how thing really are.

Asking how safe one feels in Ireland is pretty useless as Ireland will encompass Letrim, Dublin and Limerick. Leitrim is very safe indeed whereas Dublin and Limerick have crime gangs which means more violent crimes and less safe citizens

But let's compare country by country.
The 2017 Global Peace Index finds that the world became more peaceful in the last year, however, over the last decade it has become significantly less peaceful.
http://visionofhumanity.org/indexes/global-peace-index/

DEFTLEFTHAND

Glenster wrote: »

I was walking down the street yesterday and some kids drove by in a car, rolled down the window and said I was gay.

They said people in China were a lot less gay because they didn't wear stupid brown shoes like me.

They went onto claim that I'm gay because I love the penis, and that I'm even gayer than people in gay clubs in San Francisco.

"Hey Mister you dropped your Gay card."

Got that one morning while walking past a group of feral tenement teens on a Dublin street corner

I was kind of flattered.

Permabear

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Billy86

Ireland has the 18th lowest homicide rate in the world, and a good chunk of the countries below us are micro states like Andorra, Monaco, French Polynesia, Lichtenstein and San Marino - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Billy86

Bushmanpm wrote: »

America has the death penalty in some states and its done wonders for their homicide rates

States with the death penalty consistently have higher murder rates than those without it - https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-death-penalty-have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates

Bushmanpm

Billy86 wrote:

States with the death penalty consistently have higher murder rates than those without it -

Humble apologies, it was sarcasm at the OP's friend for paying too much attention to FaceBorg

Wheeliebin30

Doesn't Ireland have the highest gun murder rate in Europe?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Doesn't Ireland have the highest gun murder rate in Europe?

No, 9th by gun deaths per 100000 people. 5th on % of homicides by gun.

CrabRevolution

If I had a €1 for every bullsh*t "We're all soft. Murder/rape/robbery doesn't happen in Russia/China/Japan because they decapitate/castrate/deport etc." post I've seen on facebook I'd be pretty rich.

I remember the best one, roughly along the lines of "You never hear about Russians being held hostage because (blatantly made up story about a Soviet politician being held for ransom in the middle east 80s and him being released unharmed all because of some Spetznaz brutally slaughtering and dismembering various Lebanese). We should take the same approach."

What makes it more ridiculous is that when I think of hostage taking the first thing that comes to my mind is Beslan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege

Valmont

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Doesn't Ireland have the highest gun murder rate in Europe?

And most of those shot are in the game surely?

corner of hells

greencap wrote: »

Target is looking out the window at a bird.

Take the shot.

Target acquired, wait a sec , is it the bird or the window I've to shoot ?

fizzypish

corner of hells wrote: »

Target acquired, wait a sec , is it the bird or the window I've to shoot ?

Is it a magpie? Don't shoot, It'll only lead to more of the ****ers. More intel required.

wes

We have one of the safest place on the planet to live on. I don't get all these people who keep putting the country down. I get that we have our problems, but there are other places (including other developed countries), that are far, far worse than us.

LordSutch

...very safe, mind you I don't go to night clubs or pubs anymore, not since the kids arrived.