It is pointless having the tightest restrictions on guns without the willingness to enforce them. BBC Wales recently reported that illegal replica guns were still on sale in Wales. See the video here.
Earlier this year, Chris Huhne commented on government figures which showed that the rate of murder by guns and knives had gone up.
“The increase in gun and knife killings is deeply alarming. Violent crime is still far higher than a decade ago and must be tackled much more vigorously.
“Police should devote more time to stop and searches for knives and guns, and there must be a major new effort from the Government to clamp down on gun and knife smuggling.
“Nine times more officials are allocated to tackling cigarette smuggling than gun smuggling, which is a crazy set of priorities."
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Gun control
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These controls are pointless anyway. Typical knee-jerk controlling reactions from government.
The bad guys will always find ways to get weapons. Gun crime has increased even with the ridiculous gun controls we have.
We should liberalise gun laws and repeal all legal impediment against owning firearms for sport or defense (returning the provisions of the Bill of Rights into law, after removal to protect the state from the citizens).
We took about a hundred years to achieve the control of weapons we had until recently. Why should we throw it all away, to turn Britain into the equivalent of the Wild West, or latter-day Iraq?
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