Should England have stricter gun laws?

[montgomery69]

Even though it has the lowest gun crime rate in the world, but we still got a big shootout 2 years ago by Paul Mott and someone got shot a few months ago and someone before for that got shot and left in a wheel chair for rest of her life.

Should it be like China what doesn't except no real, toy, blank, air, replica guns what so ever? Like England would ban all there shotguns, single shot rifles and black powder revolvers, so it be even less gun crime.

If you say birds eat are crops, you got machinery to do that what scares the birds and bird, rabbit traps etc...like snares.

And if you say cars kill more people, they are not designed to kill. Guns are to do damage and harm

Or you say criminals would get them, the armed police can be trusted and shoot them as they would have 2 year experience being a cop and having no criminal record to be a armed cop anyway, if you say if it is a shootout and the armed cops take a bit of time, the police will come in a quick 10 mins

[rolfe16]

The gun laws here are very strict, you try and get one legally. Most gun crime is commited by people who do not abide by the law to obtain one. Even airguns are considered as firearms and the consequenses of using one improperly comes under the full force of the law

[caffar]

UK can have stricter gun laws by banning criminals from using guns

[delton]

MORE strict?

If they make the gun laws any more stricter not even the armed police will be able to use guns.

In the US we have shootouts EVERYDAY, so you complaining about ONE shootout 2 years ago is hard to understand.

As for China, there are actually private gun owners (some legal, some illegal), and there are also gun related murders, but the numbers of guns and gun related murders, are very low compared to other countries like the USA.

[siuaghan]

England does NOT have the lowest gun crime rate in the world, and no future change in gun laws would lower it anyway. The people breaking the gun laws now are ALREADY criminals. They don't care what the law is because they are CRIMINALS - that is what that means!

Gun laws do not keep guns away from criminals, they only keep guns away from law-abiding citizens who obey the laws to begin with.

There's a reason why the burglary rate in England, and the rate of assaults and rapes during burglaries, is among the highest in the world - it's because burglars know that their victims will not be armed and therefore are not afraid to rob occupied houses. In the USA, by contrast, almost all burglaries occur during the day when the occupants are at work, and cases where a burglar rapes a resident are so rare that they make the headlines when they happen. That's because many US homes have guns, and burglars are afraid of getting shot.

Wait ten minutes for the police? That's idiotic. A burglar can have shot you, grabbed your valuables and be 5 miles away in that length of time.

Your local police.... "When seconds count.... We'll be there in minutes."

Richard

[karlitis]

WTF!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?! Your COPS can't even carry guns!!