I think the fact that gun crime has risen dramatically in the UK is testamount that the gun laws are absurd. As LIL said getting you hands on a weapon if you want one is easy enough and the only people stopped are law abiding citizens. The Dunblane appeal was simply a knee jerk reaction to appease the outcry at the time.
In the Sun today theres a small article on a new website set up by a South London Gang :
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005380697,00.html Posing in pictures with weapons far more dangerous than the regulated few we could legally get in the past. Indeed all over the UK gun crime is rocketing.
I grew up with guns and started shooting when I was about 6 years old and it was always a great social event where I lived...friends come round we would go out hunt ducks, pheasants, deer or just even target/clay pigeon shoot and have a great night afterwards in the bar (not that I joined in the drinking when I was 6
). While we can still do that as rifles/shotguns have not been banned it was a nice change when a friend brought his handguns round for us to try, he is in the RAF and had a huge collection, colt python everyones favorite.
More indications that banning guns is useless:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2640817.stm
(Handgun use rose by 45 per cent since they were banned)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...24/nguns24.xml
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GUN crime has almost trebled in London during the past year and is soaring in other British cities, according to Home Office figures obtained by The Telegraph.)
Those articles from 2002, and its only gotten worse since then.
That guy who Tony Martin shot in the back...this is may seem cold but, atleast he wont be terrorizing anyone else again...live by the sword, die by the sword. Right now criminals go about knowing most people wont touch them.