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Showing Original Post only (View all)British gangs use flare guns now because they can’t find real ones [View all]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/01/british-gangs-use-flare-guns-now-because-they-cant-find-real-ones/After the U.K. endured a series of mass shootings, including one that targeted children, it passed some very tough gun control legislation in 1997. The effect, reported on today by The Washington Posts Anthony Faiola, has been staggering. Here are eight of the big takeaways, possible learning opportunities as the U.S. considers its own gun law changes:
1) Bad guys have a hard time getting guns: Criminals have resorted to using archaic flintlock pistols and retrofitted flare guns. Theres been one mass shooting in 15 years. This despite the adage, When guns are illegal, only criminals will possess them.
2) Fewer illegal guns: Faiola reports that, according to ballistics studies, Most gun crime in Britain can be traced back to less than 1,000 illegal weapons still in circulation.
3) Fewer gun deaths: Someone in England or Wales is about 3 percent as likely to be killed by a gun as an American. There were 59 gun deaths there last year. The U.S. annual gun death rate has hovered around 10,000 for years.
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"This despite the adage, 'When guns are illegal, only criminals will possess them.'"
ZombieHorde
Feb 2013
#3
Ummmm.... there's an OP today posted about how criminals in the UK are using flare guns
krispos42
Feb 2013
#13
It's embarrassing that DU has this person as a host: you should see the immature "Ibid" thread
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#14
I personally feel the host has been doing an excellent job and has been extremely fair ...
spin
Feb 2013
#16
Perhaps they should make you Host - I'd trust that arrangement. I have always found your posts
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#22
And the person that was responding, of course, wasn't being childish or immature.
krispos42
Feb 2013
#19
"this poster engaged in, like a childish little baby, all so he could get the precious "last word""
krispos42
Feb 2013
#35
I noticed that your #84 & #87 responses to Krispos' rebuttal are -- what was it? -- "ibids?" nt
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#41
With 41 replies (now 42) in this entire OP, that's quite a hat trick I pulled. Math:
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#42
The host is doing an excellent job in the face of the hateful language of controllers...
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#40
That's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and reminds me of something my Ex-BIL did...
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#23