Err, I think we've already got the toughest gun laws of any democratic country on Earth, thank you very much.
"The police are doing all they can -- they've set up Operation Trident and everything -- but the law is no deterrent."
But didn't the Police recently suggest that any Briton who is accosted by a knife or gun wielding villain should just do as they're told? They've basically set themselves up as the only people allowed to tackle criminals, thus shouldn't they be sued for failing to prevent all these murders?
She said the 10-year maximum sentence for gun possession should be changed to a 10-year minimum sentence.
Oh, that will stop them! Unfortunately, most Yardies are psychopathic crack-heads so I doubt they'd be deterred by this suggestion.
Yet more evidence of the stupidity of the left/liberals. There's a problem with armed gangsters so they reckon we should bring in even tougher gun laws. Even though history has shown us that psychopathic drug-dealers/gangsters are in the business of terrorising and killing people and so are unlikely to be concerned by longer custodial sentences for possession of the tools of their trade. Meanwhile, the law-abiding British public can't even legally carry a penknife to protect themselves with and are being prosecuted for using 'unreasonable force' while they're in fear of their lives.
No doubt next they'll be saying that because gangsters often use shotguns that means shotgun ownership should be more strictly controlled too. I suppose the fact that it doesn't matter what gun laws are in place because professional criminals can just buy their firearms on the back market escapes the left/liberals and the British government. If they want to prevent gangsters from committing murder they should execute murderers, not try to put up more barriers/penalties to the possession of firearms.
But no, its all the fault of those nasty guns isn't it? The fact that after the "good friday settlement" the IRA started to beat people to death with sledge-hammers, since it didn't violate the agreement, just doesn't occur to these people I suppose.
By gosh, that will do it. Of course, sending the savages back whence they came might also have some effect.
I guess the days when Sherlock Holmes would tell Dr. Watson to bring his Webley along will never return. If Sherlock were to fire his boxer pistol indoors nowadays making a V R outline with the bullets he would get a mandatory 10 years in prison.
10 years or a 100 years...it doesn't matter. These people don't imagine for a second that they'll be caught. I doesn't matter what you set the jail time to, because even the most illogical of criminals wouldn't commit the crime if they thought they'd get caught. Yet they still commit them, which speaks volumes of their faith in the law enforcement agencies to catch them.
ROFL. She says that the laws do nothing, then suggests changing the laws. I love it when Socialists reveal themselves so quickly and easily. This woman has no interest in safety, justice or good lawmaking. She is merely interested in controlling people's lives and taking away their rights.
As always, and everywhere, more gun control is directly proportional to more crime. The smart leftists know this and don't care, because gov't controlling peoples' lives - the abolition of individual rights - is far more important than public safety. The dumb socialists (like the mothers in the article) still believe the myth, and no amount of evidence will change their minds.
Here's an article about British gun control from American Rifleman magazine that may interest you, if you haven't seen it already.
And the majority of Brits are oblivious to this disturbing equation?
What you need matey is a politician who advocates gun racks on the back of your vehicles which "advertise" a willingness to defend yourself. Though I don't live there, I hear it seems to work well in Texas...
22-year-old "children"?!
As the old saying goes, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
Here are "grieving Mums" complaining that thier offspring where viciously mowed down by "drug dealers" and "gangs." Look who the innocent offspring are hanging out with...I guess this minor point is worth overlooking when it comes to heartless, self-shooting, maniacle "GUNS."