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Pupils found with handguns in school (in UK)
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12:01AM BST 23 Apr 2014 | David Barrett

Posted on 04/23/2014 4:04:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Nearly 40 children have been found with guns on school premises over the last three years, a shocking new national survey has disclosed.

Figures obtained from police forces across Britain showed guns and air weapons had been confiscated on 37 occasions by officers—including two hand guns. The other guns included 27 ball bearing guns and seven other air weapons.

The figures showed almost 1,000 pupils in total were caught by police with weapons in schools, including a Taser stun gun, a meat cleaver, three axes and a cut-throat razor.

The total is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg because only 31 of the country’s 52 police responded to a freedom of information request by Sky News. …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; schoolwarzone; students

1 posted on 04/23/2014 4:04:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Appears to be only two “real” guns out of the 1,000 weapons.


2 posted on 04/23/2014 4:31:10 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Olog-hai

“a meat cleaver, three axes and a cut-throat razor.”

Sounds like chicago.


3 posted on 04/23/2014 4:34:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: PeteB570

“27 ball bearing guns”

Sling shots?


4 posted on 04/23/2014 4:34:45 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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I wonder how many of them were muslims?


5 posted on 04/23/2014 4:37:19 AM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: Olog-hai

Lets not be misleading or anything like that.


6 posted on 04/23/2014 4:42:47 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Olog-hai

So the pic at the article says it all.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01971/handgun_1971210b.jpg
jee wiz go to chicago on any given weekend.


7 posted on 04/23/2014 4:46:07 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Olog-hai

I like the meat cleaver.


8 posted on 04/23/2014 4:55:20 AM PDT by SIDENET
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To: ltc8k6
Probably BB guns. Those Brits never have mastered the language
9 posted on 04/23/2014 4:59:10 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: Olog-hai

they need them to protect against muzzies that chop off heads in the street


10 posted on 04/23/2014 5:19:44 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: CrazyIvan

Assault BB guns!


11 posted on 04/23/2014 5:37:28 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ltc8k6
Sling shots?

BB Guns (BB - Ball Bearing).

12 posted on 04/23/2014 6:07:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: ltc8k6

Ball Bearing (BB) guns.


13 posted on 04/23/2014 7:52:55 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Oh yeah, I just thought it was funny to think of the British kids carrying sling shots to school.

They’d get arrested, I suppose.


14 posted on 04/23/2014 9:09:08 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: V_TWIN

Hell, sounds like roll call at the White Hut.


15 posted on 04/24/2014 1:21:12 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: escapefromboston

Most will be white and black British underclass.


16 posted on 04/27/2014 4:14:01 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: CrazyIvan

Lol, yeah, it’s like we invented it or somefink.


17 posted on 04/27/2014 4:15:48 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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