[TC Rider]

This must be a fantasy article because we all know that the UK is a paradise with no evil guns.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

"We have some of the toughest firearm legislation in Europe."

Well, criminals aren't at risk from legally armed citizens, anyway...

[Vigilanteman]

Simple solutions:

1. Encourage law abiding citizens to arm and pay them bounty for every perp bagged.
   
2. Revive the death penalty under Scottish law for hamesucken.

[Red Badger]

Morons, absolute morons...........

[Mr. Jeeves]

Labour has been accused of losing control of gun crime...

That implies that government had control of it in the first place.

[Myrddin]

It must be a failing in the educational system. Nobody in a position of power can comprehend the simple results of gun control. A common bumper sticker sums it up nicely, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". The socialist solution will be more anti-gun laws, more government, more armed agents of the government. The correct solution is freedom. Freedom of individuals to keep and bear arms. Prosecute and incarcerate the minority of persons who would employ a firearm for other than self defense from life threatening physical assault.

[oyez]

There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminal.>Well, gezzz, Louise! OK, Brit liberals, here in the USA there is a Internet group called Free Republic and every member can explain the hows and whys to you guys.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity . - Sigmund Freud

Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.) - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;
they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.
- Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.

[SamuraiScot]

There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminals.

I can explain it. It's because the crooks know the householders probably aren't armed.

[vetsvette]

Criminals don't comply with gun laws?? Can't be.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This is what happens when a regime seizes guns from law-abiding citizens. Only the crooks have guns. The law-abiding people can't defend themselves.
Rule #1 of survival, that all animals and humans must obey: protect your own existence. Since the liberal regime is preventing humans from saving their own existence, the liberal regime is violating a fundamental law of animal and human nature.
And I don't expect them to understand what I just said.

[Disambiguator]

"Gun crime is mainly fuelled by gang warfare and drug addiction, which is a consequence of Labour's failing drugs policy. It is exacerbated by our porous borders, which allow illegal weapons to flow into the country."

Here's a fun exercise. How many false statements can you find in this quote?

[clamper1797]

So how's that banning gun thingy working out ??? Really helped reduce crime didn't it ... you bunch of friggin idiots

[The KG9 Kid]

No offense to our British participants intended, but this is one of those news stories that they swear aren't true.

This story also goes to show that the UK's Conservative party that some Freepers like to think of as the closest relative to the Republican party is no friend of liberty at all. They're essentially saying 'Labor has failed on the issue of gun control. We can do far better!'. Don't think for a minute that this means the Conservatives are going to repeal gun control legislation or allow law abiding UK citizens to defend themselves. It means that the Conservatives intend to redouble their efforts on gun control.

The party of Margaret Thatcher is long gone.

[calex59]

There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminals./I>

Unexplained only to left wing idiots, conservatives know why there was an increase in home invasions in the UK since they effectively made it against the law for home owners to defend themselves.

[DMZFrank]

Maybe they can make private gun ownership extra special illegal.

[BnBlFlag]

"Gun Crime"
The guns must have criminal minds in England.

[No.6]

"The figures come a day after two men armed with a replica gun robbed a Home Office worker on his way home after sharing a curry with Home Secretary John Reid. The 29-year-old civil servant was making his way home in Beckenham, Kent, shortly before midnight when he was attacked. "

in other news...

"And the fact that you've got "Replica" written down the side of your guns, and the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point five O" written on the side of mine..."
(/snatch)