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British Gun Crime up 242 Percent; Post Says 'Laws Seen As Curbing Attacks'
NewsBusters, Washingon Post ^
| 4/24/07
| Ken Shepherd
Posted on 04/24/2007 10:23:51 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
This morning, NewsBusters contributing editor Dan Gainor brought this Washington Post article to my attention:
"Britain's Gun Laws Seen as Curbing Attacks"
But the problem is that while anti-gun activists recited those talking points in Post foreign service correspondent Mary Jordan's April 24 story, the empirical evidence shows otherwise.
The number of crimes in which a handgun was used in England and Wales has risen from 299 in 1995 to 1,024 last year. Offenses committed with all types of firearms, including air guns, have also increased.
That's an increase of 725 gun crimes in 11 years, a 242 percent increase.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; britain; british; crime; gun; uk; washingtoncompost
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Once again we see the MO of the left: the end justifies the means. "Don't criticize what we say/do. Laud us for looking out for you."
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:24:03 AM PDT
by
AT7Saluki
To: AT7Saluki
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:25:45 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: AT7Saluki
So you mean the gun banners in GB lie just like the ones in the US? Who’da thunk?
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:25:59 AM PDT
by
jrp
To: massgopguy
Exactly. What guns? Who’s buying? Who’s selling? Where are the guns coming from? /s (kinda)
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:27:12 AM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: RhoTheta
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:27:19 AM PDT
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: AT7Saluki
Carl Rowan didn’t die. He just moved to the U.K.
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:27:48 AM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: AT7Saluki
The libs wanted that to happen.
To: AT7Saluki
But....but....but....handguns were outlawed there.....oh never mind......
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:43:43 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(Hillary sings like Granny Clampett auditioning for "American Idol")
To: AT7Saluki
I think you need to look into greater detail here.
The statistics for gun crime are widly distorted in the UK.
The biggest rise in gun crime is attributed to airguns, imitation guns and other weapons such as paintball of which there are few controls placed. The past two years have seen a fall in handgun crime.
To: AT7Saluki
The number of crimes in which a handgun was used in England and Wales has risen from 299 in 1995 to 1,024 last year. Offenses committed with all types of firearms, including air guns, have also increased. That's an increase of 725 gun crimes in 11 years, a 242 percent increase.Talk about an inconvenient truth.....
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:45:21 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(Hillary sings like Granny Clampett auditioning for "American Idol")
To: UKrepublican
An airgun pal of mine was trying to explain UK’s rules for airguns; he mentioned different pressures based on test taking...
To: AT7Saluki
We don’t need gun control. We need scum control. Ban the barbarians within who wage war against civilized people.
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:52:54 AM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: UKrepublican
There must be some awful powerful airguns, imitation guns and paintball guns in GB to have killed all those people. Your statements are inane and self serving!
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:54:13 AM PDT
by
JayAr36
(No Party, just a Conservative.)
To: AT7Saluki
Degenerate culture is a far greater problem than weapons.
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posted on
04/24/2007 10:58:56 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
To: JayAr36
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posted on
04/24/2007 11:00:16 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: AT7Saluki
“I enjoy feeling your pain. In fact I enjoy it so much I’m going to create more of it.”
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posted on
04/24/2007 11:02:17 AM PDT
by
Philistone
(Your existence as a non-believer offends the Prophet(MPBUH).)
To: AT7Saluki
Guess those Brit Twits failed to consider reality:
Unless the gun fairy can wave a magic wand and make all firearms manufactured since 1364 disappear...
Stupidity knows no national boundaries.
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posted on
04/24/2007 11:03:44 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: AT7Saluki
So what? Gun bans for the peasants make Liberals feel good about themselves...
To: JayAr36
There must be some awful powerful airguns, imitation guns and paintball guns in GB to have killed all those people.Where are the statistics on people killed? So far in these postings I have only seen "gun crime" numbers.
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posted on
04/24/2007 11:09:25 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: AT7Saluki
Cut me some slack - I am not pro gun control.
But “The gun-murder rate in America is more than 30 times that of England and Wales”
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posted on
04/24/2007 11:58:20 AM PDT
by
LM_Guy
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