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MrRodgers -> RE: Trouble in paradise or.... (5/18/2017 4:59:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
Things aint perfect in ol' Britain.
Yup, thats right folks.
While one particular individual is so quick to point out how terrible things are in "Americashire" he seems oblivious to some interesting developments in the UK...
For instance, for a country with restrictive gun laws, gun crime is up 42%!
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Cressida Dick, who formally began work last week as the first female commissioner of the Metropolitan police, pledged to “bear down across the wide spectrum of violent crime”.
Latest figures for London showed gun crime was up 42% and knife crime rose 24%. “The figures worry me,” Dick told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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Of course, 11 Londoners attacked with knives in 16 days does prove the argument that if one does not have a gun, one will find a way to do violent harm to someone else.
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Now, I have to admit that I do get concerned when an American student takes a gun to school, but I have to ask a simple question....
How in the hell do British school kids smuggle axes into those schools?
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Now the Brits did pass a two strike law concerning knife related crimes, but evidently did not think to figure out how to add more cops to enforce it.
But, back to my initial point, which begs the question:
How in the hell does a city in a country with very restrictive gun laws have a 42% increase in gun related crimes?
Its not like the US where there is a sporting goods shop in every town that carries guns, so where are they coming from?
Perhaps they are hopping across the pond, going to a walmart and buying them in the states and then hopping back across the pond to use them on fellow Brits?
There are growing concerns about how they could acquire instructions online on how to build a home-made gun, or even 3D-print a functioning pistol.
But what other alternative sources are criminals accessing in order to bypass strict laws ?
Deactivated firearms (real firearms that have been altered so they can no longer fire projectiles) and replica firearms (anything that has the appearance of a real firearm, but isn’t) can be bought legally without a firearms license. With minimal tools, space and skills, criminals can convert or reactivate these types of weapons to enable them to fire live ammunition.
An alarming example is the conversions carried out by Grant Wilkinson, who changed legally-bought replica MAC-10 machine guns in a garden shed using only a lathe, metal cutters and drill bits purchased on eBay. His conversions have been linked to nine killings including the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, who was killed during an armed robbery in Bradford in 2005.
In 2013, Thomas Keatley was convicted of a number of firearm offences, including the manufacture of a fully improvised handgun in his garage workshop. Keatley had bought the majority of the items required online from the US and the UK, and had downloaded guides from the internet on how to make handguns and even automatic machine guns.
Also problematic are the many antique weapons, such as muskets or flintlock pistols from previous centuries, or even more recent early 20th-century weapons, which can be purchased without a firearms license.
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