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In article <df4ghj$rap$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Uno Hoo!
<kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> writes
>
>"Marshall Rice" <Marshall@marshallricebin.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:wr00CsicxvEDFwDr@marshallricebin.co.uk...
>> In article <deukmg$p7v$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Uno Hoo!
>> <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> writes
>>>
>>>"Marshall Rice" <Marshall@marshallricebin.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>news:T8JMXfGpehEDFwHG@marshallricebin.co.uk...
>>>> In article <desurr$b52$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, Uno Hoo!
>>>> <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> writes
>>>>
>>>>>No indeed you can't - but that is no reason not to take *some* steps to
>>>>>make
>>>>>life safer. Many people (including me) feel safer now that public
>>>>>ownership
>>>>>of handguns has been banned.
>>>>
>>>> You feel safer now that gun crime has more than doubled, following on
>>>> from
>>>> the ban?
>>>
>>>You still keep making this stupid implied suggestion that gun crime has
>>>doubled *because* of the ban. That is tosh and you know it.
>>
>> Do you think it's just coincidence then?
>
>Yes of course it is.
>The UK is increasingly becoming a violent and
>anti-social society. That would have occurred whether or not hand-guns were
>banned. You are not seriously suggesting that criminals refrained from
>buying and using hand-guns because a few gun-club members had hand-guns
>locked away in their safes at home? The suggestion is laughable .

No, I am suggesting that the ban turned firearms, in the eyes of many,
from things that were largely the preserve of farmers, collectors,
target shooters and similarly 'un-cool' people into must-have fashion
accessories and resulted in their being acquired, and inevitably then
used, by people who would not have done so otherwise.

How else do you explain the sudden and dramatic rise in gun crime
following the ban, when all other forms of crime rose much more slowly,
or not at all?

Doesn't the decline in cannabis use following reclassification, the
vanishing of the lunchtime drunk following the introduction of all-day
opening, or even the virtual death of CB radio following legalisation,
suggest to you what the solution might be?
--
Marshall Rice

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