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| Originally Posted by phillc As you so rightly pointed out, it depends on who you ask. Whether or not the hand gun ban has addressed the root cause of the problem, latest Home Office figures show that for the year ending March, 31 2005, hand gun crime was down by 16% - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-v...ime/gun-crime/ Other sources site a small overall increase (6%) in gun crime since 1997, but levels remain low and much of the increase can be accounted for by use of imitation weapons. http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/servlet/...ory=factsheets I don't think your presumption that there is now "considerably more" handgun crime than prior to the ban holds true. |
Ask the coppers.
Statistics are great.
So banning all legal ownership didn't see the drastic decline that you'd hope for given that a large number of law abiding people were deprived of a perfectly legitimate pastime when the ban came about? A massive cost in compensating them for the guns that were destroyed was loaded onto the general public.
If legal ownership had been the root cause wouldn't the ban have reduced the figures to a very low number ?
Ironically the government is now chasing its tail trying to work out how we can legally run the pistol shooting events at the Olympics when they come here.
Funny old world innit.