[Epona]

Several points have been made here about tighter gun-control laws.

We have very tight laws here in the UK - it would be illegal for me to own a gun (or to carry a knife on the street with a blade longer than 3" for that matter). But I just found out a few days ago that my local hospital in Hackney treated more gunshot wounds last year than were seen in the most violent area of Soweto. (Sorry for repeating myself, I just said this on Milamber's thread too - but I think it proves a point).

OK, Hackney probably has the worst problem with this in the UK, but the people who actually want to go out and shoot someone still find it easy enough to illegally obtain guns - because they are criminals and know the right people.

And it doesn't prevent the kind of disasters we just saw happen in Germany - we had tight gun control laws before the incident at Dunblane - but it didn't stop 16 kids and a teacher getting shot by a psychopath.

[ 04-27-2002, 07:34 AM: Message edited by: Epona ]