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Gun Crime Rises in Gun-Free England. Again.

Like a broken record. (Okay, a scratched CD for you younger folks...) From the Independent (UK):

The number of armed burglaries has risen to record levels, new crime figures show.

Latest statistics from the Home Office reveal 645 cases of burglars using a firearm in the year ending April 2006, a 46 per cent rise on the previous year.

The figures were published in the British Crime Survey, an annual assessment of households that is considered the most accurate indicator of crime as it includes incidents not reported to the police.

It showed overall, guns were used in 4,120 robberies in England and Wales in the year ending April 2006 - a 10 per cent increase on the previous 12 months.

The total number of crimes involving a firearm - 11,084 - had not risen significantly from the previous year. But in a fifth of the crimes the victim was injured and just under 3 per cent resulted in a serious injury or death.

The Home Office minister Tony McNulty stressed that the rise in residential armed robberies represented a "tiny proportion" - 0.4 per cent - of the 11 million crimes recorded during that period. He said that since the figures were collected the Government had toughened its stance on gun crime and now had "some of the toughest firearm legislation in Europe".

Anyway, it's good to see that total gun control has been a success in Great Britian and that criminals there are obeying the law... Liberal fools here in the U.S. idolize England for their gun ban and would like to see one in this country.

McNulty says that since those figures were collected, England now has "some of the toughest firearm legislation in Europe". Since the year before that, gun ownership was already prohibited, how did they make it "tougher?"