Maybe if they banned guns...MORE...
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That was *exactly* their “abject lack of pattern recognition” logic:
“Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said the figures must prompt “a new, tougher approach” towards people who carry guns.”
It is, however, reassuring to note that when confronted with bad statistics, the British government has never hesitated for a moment to revise the standards of the statistics so that they no longer look bad.
For example, since the 1970’s, they revised their unemployment statistics about 30 times, every which revision making it look lower than it actually was.
As far as crime statistics go, they went so far as to order the police to stop making arrests for a slew of crimes, such as burglary, and to just not report if guns were used in crimes.