Once again music gets the blame

[Andy Ball]

I'd rather live here in London/UK where gun crime is still lower per year
than any week in a major US city.
And that's not counting "accidental" shootings or people just "losing it".
I'm all for the current ban on handguns in the UK.
Letting the public carry firearms is not going to lower gun crime in the UK.
Yes, I agree that polititians have some silly knee jerk reactions , but
also people over react and scaremonger.

Andy,

London UK, and not living in fear of being shot on my door step.





At 07:50 08/01/03 EDT, you wrote:
>On 6 Jan 2003 at 17:37, M Holmes wrote:
>
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2631401.stm
>>
>> Summary: every time in the past 100 years that gun laws in the UK have
>> been tightened, gun crime has increased. Politicians need someone to
>> blame other than themselves and so...
>>
>You'd think the rest of the world would have the sense to learn from the
multiple
>mistakes we Americans have made regarding firearms.  Gun crime increases
>because the criminals know that there is a smaller likelihood that an
honest citizen
>will now have a gun to defend his house.  And, making guns illegal doesn't
stop
>criminals from getting them, as outlaws already have criminal records and
can't buy
>them legally anyway!  So the law doesn't change the procurement means for
>criminals, just honest folks!
>
>theo
>