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Crime Rises in Gun-Free UK

I should have added "again". From the Evening Standard (UK):

Teenage gunmen are responsible for a huge surge in shootings across London.

Police say they are arresting teenagers with loaded guns as young as 16, while one community leader told the Standard there were now 14-year-olds carrying guns.

The teenage gunmen are suspected of being behind a rise of as much as 146 per cent in gun crime in some London boroughs in the months since April, during which Met Police figures show a 10 per cent rise capital-wide.

One senior detective on Operation Trident, combating armed black drug gangs, said: "The gunmen are getting younger and younger. These kids are less disciplined than older gunmen and more volatile. The terrifying thing is they are getting hold of these guns and they are more willing to use them than older criminals."

No word yet from the law-abiding victims. See, folks, when the mutants KNOW that their victims are unarmed, even with a kitchen-knife, that just gives them the green light to run rampant. Maybe, just maybe -- and I'm not saying it would -- if these punks KNEW they could be killed by their intended victims, they might think twice. And if the courts in England would put the fear of life in prison or the death penalty in them, that couldn't hurt either.

Instead, we have the peculiar situation where the public can't defend itself and if they try, then THEY face worse penalties than the thug.

And for those simplistic anti-gun types who think that simple bans on all guns will solve the problem here in the US -- that if we outlaw all guns the criminals will mysteriously not have them anymore, I would first point to England, and secondly, I would point to drug laws. Heroin and cocaine are illegal here in the US; a total ban on them. So how's THAT going?... Bans don't eliminate anything where criminals are concerned. In the case of guns, though, at least the average citizen should have the right to fight back with their own.