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The police have in the large never been in favour of private handgun ownership and the Police Federation had voiced concerns for some time before the ban. Since self defense with a handgun has never been an option post 1903 the connection between crime against the person and carrying a handgun...

The 1988 and 1997 acts did not prevent the recent spree killings in Cumbria nor has it in most peoples opinion caused an increase in violent crime. Legal firearms ownership has actually increased though public opinion is now set against hand gun ownership though fairly ambivalent in regards to...

You first post was smorgasbord of conflicting opinions and pasted links and you even conferred your own opinion that both the US and UK have separate cultural identities. You may not have picked up on this as yet but I do not have an argument on gun control just a dislike of wild assumptions...

Its not in any shape or form an experiment and there are no results other than your own fallacious conjecture. Joyce Malcom is a history professor yet she is completely unaware that a state called England has not existed since 1707 and what she has roped together is a cut and paste conjecture...

Mav88 was trying to make a correlation between the handgun ban in 1997 and the crime spike thereafter but for reasons I have mentioned in previous posts and the simple fact that crime spiked before in 1992 there is no logical correlation. The comparisons between the US and other states gun...

Are you pursuing a political ideology or facts? You are on a fools errand if you seek comparisons between legal firearms and crime in the UK and transplanting that argument to the US. Due to the rarity of handguns in the UK they did not enter the conscious thought of criminals targeting non...

Some more regime reorganization in the Middle East and we can sell a little more. You know the Netherlands is just one place behind China :)

We have fallen to about 5th place which is pretty bad, I reckon there is opportunity in this field as our laws are more opaque than other states in this respect. The UK arms industry is essentially BAE Ltd and a few smaller companies.

Not really as you stated: If handguns were in minimal circulation and you could not CCW or legally use them as a defensive weapon why would their absence have an effect on armed crime. There also has been a rise in the number of legal firearms in the UK since 1997 and 2010 which seems to be...

Again its China so they could have a zombie Apocalypse and all would be well in the harmonious middle kingdom according the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

Cool whats your handle over there:cool:

Its China dude they usually are swift and severe.

We still have access to firearms but picking on the restriction of handguns which were not in wide circulation nor a legal means of defense at home or in public as a key indicator is not in any way valid. Handgun restrictions were introduced in 1997 rather than 1987 which may throw your...

Its crap chicken and usually drier than a nuns chuff.

There are cultural similarities but the UK population as a whole never had the same access to firearms the US had and the regulation of firearms started in 1903 so as a baseline we are a bad choice for both sides of the argument.

Iran is also surrounded by enemies :)

Why in the ever loving fvck can Americans not discuss the pros and cons of firearms without dragging some other country into it. Is introspection completely absent from the American psyche?

The NY Fed was getting emails regarding possible LIBOR fixing as early as 28 August 2007 so I imagine Timmy was not alone.

I know a lot of you guys think its near impossible to own a firearm in Europe but its not the case. The UK spree killings were carried out using legally held firearms and the rest of Europe including Scandinavia gun ownership while not enshrined as a right is not at all uncommon. A full auto in...

Its in the sandpit that is Politics & Religion.