Gun Crime in England
Like me you will remember vividly the horror we all felt back in 1996 when 16 children and a teacher were shot dead at a school in Dunblane by a deranged man with a gun. Politicians reacted in haste to the call for ‘something to be done’. A partial ban on hand guns was implemented immediately, followed by a total ban as one of the first measures taken by the new Labour Government in 1997.
advertisementAs I am sure your officials will tell you, there was absolutely no evidence to suggest that by banning legally-licensed cartridge pistols and closing legally-operating shooting clubs, we would all sleep safer in our beds. Yet today there are more hand guns on our streets than 10 years ago.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:45 am
England is descending into barbarism. A criminal kills defenseless, unarmed victims, so the government reacts by enforcing virtually total defenselessness on the people. And how is that enforced? Oh, by guns of course. Yet another example of criminals working together–the leglized version with the undocumetned version. And we have many who want to do that here!
February 9th, 2007 at 10:46 am
WTF?
The pleading seems to be a request to re-import their firearms, sans ammo, so the talent can do their daily dry firing to get ready for their “sporting purposes” Olympic games in 2012
Excuse me while I go throw up.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:49 am
it’s england. baby steps.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’m impressed by the comments. The folks actually have sense!
Free Human beings are armed. Children and slaves…not.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Stupid is as stupid does… Nanny knows best.
February 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Wow…it’s *almost* as though gun control doesn’t affect criminals.
Fascinating.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Disarming the populace does help people “sleep safer in our beds” – if you admit that oppressive officials are people, too. It sure doesn’t help the rest of us.
February 9th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
That’s right, markm, the ruling elites are people too, and they figure we shoud be disarmed so they can FEEL safer. Becuae guns in the hands of the people are only a threat to tyrants and criminals.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
According to the US ranks 8th in the world for murders with firearms per capita with 0.0279271 murders per 1,000 people (8259 murders total). The UK ranks 32nd with 0.00102579 murders per 1,000 people (62 murders total). Those numbers don’t seem insignificant to me. More liberal gun laws allow conscientious citizens to defend themselves, but they also make it much easier for criminals to obtain guns.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Sorry, I don’t know what happened to the link, but here it is: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita&int=-1