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flipper1966 · M
@Jahosijhs In America, we're free!!
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Sharon Some criminals do that's true. But they know if they're caught they go to jail for life.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Sharon Gun control is not a panacea against gun crime, and there is never such a thing as perfect safety. But one of the effects that's seen over and over in countries with gun control is that black market prices skyrocket. Economics of gun running are not like things work with drugs - and high prices literally put guns out of reach of [i]most[/i] criminals.
End result is that very few criminals have guns, and they tend to be part of organized crime - and while of course that's not a comfortable thought, by and large they do not target regular folks.
As things stand, there are around 1000 illegal guns in circulation in the UK, and most gun crime is actually committed with non-functioning replicas. Criminals are down to the bare dregs.
[quote]When police on a weapons raid swarmed a housing project after London’s 2011 riots, they seized a cache of arms that in the United States might be better suited to “Antiques Roadshow” than inner-city ganglands. Inside plastic bags hidden in a trash collection room, officers uncovered two archaic flintlock pistols, retrofitted flare guns and a Jesse James-style revolver.[/quote]
They've only had one mass shooting since the ban went into the effect, and casualties were limited by the perpetrator's shitty weapon. England and Wales average, like, 50-60 gun deaths a year, around one per million of the population. We have about six times their population, but 160 times more firearm deaths.
So yeah - "Criminals still have them" needs one hell of a qualifier.
End result is that very few criminals have guns, and they tend to be part of organized crime - and while of course that's not a comfortable thought, by and large they do not target regular folks.
As things stand, there are around 1000 illegal guns in circulation in the UK, and most gun crime is actually committed with non-functioning replicas. Criminals are down to the bare dregs.
[quote]When police on a weapons raid swarmed a housing project after London’s 2011 riots, they seized a cache of arms that in the United States might be better suited to “Antiques Roadshow” than inner-city ganglands. Inside plastic bags hidden in a trash collection room, officers uncovered two archaic flintlock pistols, retrofitted flare guns and a Jesse James-style revolver.[/quote]
They've only had one mass shooting since the ban went into the effect, and casualties were limited by the perpetrator's shitty weapon. England and Wales average, like, 50-60 gun deaths a year, around one per million of the population. We have about six times their population, but 160 times more firearm deaths.
So yeah - "Criminals still have them" needs one hell of a qualifier.