I seem to remember a cop managed to book out a gun from a gun club and shoot his mother in law. Even in Switzerland there is a problem with legally held guns. Much of the UK increase in gun problems is probably to do with racial factors and it does seem from the GMP experience that actually doing some policing works. In those exercises about being stranded in deserts or on the moon I always choose the gun first even though it is practically useless. Always better that I get it and do nothing with it, rather than letting someone likely to go loony have it and start forcing decisions through that. Ian is right. And yes, I'm mad enough to think others will go mad before me! I'd bring back a very different National Service, but leave the guns locked up in police stations.
On 31 Jan, 08:22, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > Gun control laws designed to ensure that only decent "responsible" > individuals can possess guns don't ever work. Michael Ryan's guns were all > legally bought and licensed, and yet he murdered 16 people and injured 15 in > the Hungerford massacre. He was also a member of a gun club. Apparently > filling in forms and acting normal for 5 minutes whilst you buy a gun isn't > too difficult, even for a very disturbed character intent on serious harm. > Is there a better solution for these controls? > > Although I hate to question the journalistic integrity of that clip from > RedneckTV, the idea that the rise in UK gun crime is because of the handgun > ban is way wide of the mark. Overwhelmingly, the new gun crime we're seeing > in the UK in gang-related (gang on gang); suggesting that we open up some > shops where they can buy more guns for their little turf or race wars is an > epic failure of logic. More guns isn't the answer to a gun problem, and the > liberal American legislation, given their gun crime figures, should be seen > as a serious warning to all countries, not something to copy. Remember, in > the UK, gun crime in robberies (for example) continues to fall (Home > Office). And UK gun crime only accounts for 1% of all violent crime (Home > Office). > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
