UK: gun crimes on the rise, selling for cheap to younger individuals
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Britain, crime, death, GBP, guns, Ireland, Liverpool, London, Manchester, police state, politics, UK, United KingdomSenior police officers have been warning for several months that a growing number of teenagers in big cities are becoming involved in gun crime.
The age of victims and suspects has fallen over the past three years as the availability of firearms in some cities has risen. Liverpool and Manchester are the cities where illegal guns are most readily available, with criminals claiming that some weapons are being smuggled from Ireland. Sawn-off shotguns are now being sold for as little as £50, and handguns for £150.
Despite a ban on handguns introduced in 1997 after 16 children and their teacher were shot dead in the Dunblane massacre the previous year, their use in crimes has almost doubled to reach 4,671 in 2005-06. Official figures show that although Britain has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world, firearm use in crime has risen steadily. This year eight young people have been killed in gun attacks: six in London and one each in Manchester and Liverpool.
Who are these kids and what are the purposes of their gangs? Are they participating in the black market of prohibited items? Or are they just punk kids with nothing better to do? This article doesn’t provide enough information to really comment. In the least: banning guns does not change the demand for an efficient means of personal defense and offense nor stops people who really want them from getting them. When you criminalize X only criminals will have X.
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August 28th, 2007 at 11:42 am
When I was in London I was amazed by the amount of pick-pockets there were. They would bump into people and aggressively try to take their wallet. You would have to be retarded not to notice. I kept thinking to myself, “I wonder if anyone would try that at Penn Station Newark?”
In that particular situation, a gun isn’t really going to help you much, but being ready to throw down at the drop of a hat might. I kept wondering if people from the UK were just less violent than people from the US or if they simply had more apathy.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Theft and vandalism is big throughout western Europe. I don’t think it has to do with apathy or violent tendencies but belief in property rights. Our country was founded on that idea… they may have birthed those who championed the ideas originally but they didn’t take hold. I surely wouldn’t say they are less violent. They have riots over sports games and far left and far right political groups causing trouble relatively often.