Doesn't the lack of thinking skills by some in Speakers Corner just astound you?
Ya
But I have had my turns at it too
This is an emotional event
Some want to make is stop
They see guns as the issue
Remove the guns this will stop
Thats what happened here in the UK... It didn't work.
Skyrad, maybe I'm reading this out of context, if so I'll apologise, but... if you're on about the UK ban on gun possession, when was the last time an individual massacred an amount of innocent people with a firearm here? Would it have been Hungerford with Michael Ryan and an AK-47, and then Dunblane, *before* the weapon ban? With nothing on such a scale afterwards??
Despite the UK having a completely different attitude towards gun ownership than America...the ban did work.
Gun laws won't ever completely eradicate gun crime; but a huge reduction in their proliferation through banning them will certainly make a very significant difference.
Other than Hungerford and Dunblane there wasn't any massacres involving guns in the UK (not including terrorist events) so to say that they stopped because of the ban is simply not correct. In the last couple of years we've had Derrick Bird and Raoul Moat not to mention the crimes involving illegal handguns which the ban has not stopped.
Its still legal to own rim fire semi automatic rifles which are lethal at the ranges typically discussed in these cases, still legal to own 5.56 straight pulls, section 1 shotguns etc. Yet we still haven't had a school shooting like Dunblane if guns were the problem we would have.
Like you said culture is the problem, until the USA sorts out its cultural and social issues these school attacks will keep happening.
I think you're missing a very important point. Bird and Moat used twin barrelled shotguns which aren't banned.
Imagine the death toll if they'd used semi-automatic weapon systems that *are* banned?
'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'
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I think you're missing a very important point. Bird and Moat used twin barrelled shotguns which aren't banned.
Imagine the death toll if they'd used semi-automatic weapon systems that *are* banned?
'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'
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