Downforce Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 (edited) During all the talk about the terrible events in Blackpool (the murders and the riots), Nazir Afzal was interviewed by the BBC and advocated knife control and in the process of doing so referred the gun control legislation to be introduced after Dunblane as an example of how effective legislation could be. D Edited January 25 by Downforce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Do you have a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 (edited) In the sense that nobody since has been murdered with a handgun lawfully held by a licensed UK gun owner on an FAC then yes it has. However the cost of achieving this was £95 Million according to the National Audit Office report into the compulsory surrender scheme's cost. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmpubacc/354/35403.htm If one is quite callous then £98 Million dived by the seventeen murdered by Hamilton in 1996 is £5.75 Million per life lost. Yet for but a fraction of that far more lives could be saved annually by government funded compulsory cycle road safety training in primary and junior schools. Yet the biggest number of people killed post Dunblane by ANY handguns has been by unlawfully owned and illegally imported handguns used by criminal individuals or criminal gangs. Either in robbery, drug disputes or rival gang feuds or gang executions all wholly unlicenced and likely affected not one instant by the Dunblane gun ban laws. Edited January 26 by enfieldspares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armsid Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Once tou introduce laws to ban a lethal item from being owned by lawful means that item becomes valuable to certain elements of society who care not for the law or others and the authorities have no idea who is carrying said item when called to disturbances and must go armed and mishaps occur better to know who has these items as checks can be made Cars are used in all crimes at some point but even with computors criminals still steal drive without licenses insurance etc but there is no type of law in force like sgc/fac law , if this was the case very few people would be elligable for a license ( good reason criminal record health check security access to the keys by unauthorised people) so you can legislate as much as you want if someone wants a banned item they will get it and you will not know who Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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