Originally Posted by
Ben Gash
On the firearms issue, gun crime in the UK last year was the lowest since 2000. Of all offences half were criminal damage with air rifles :rolleyes: Of the rest a quarter were threats with a replica. 59 people were killed by firearms in 2006-2007, that's one person in a million. I really don't think there's anything to sneer at there, and incidentally that figure has remained relatively static since the mid 70's, there has been no increase in gun related murders since either of the revisions of the gun laws as Mas Judt and the author imply.