Quote Originally Posted by Brightlight View Post
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In the UK, we had a school shooting back in the 90's at Dunblane, where a nutter went into a school and killed 16 kids and 1 adult before killing himself. I believe these guns were legally owned. Subsequent legislation to control gun ownership was put in place. This may or may not be the reason we have not had a repeat of this occurrence. Yes we do have a minor problem with illegal guns in some of our inner cities, and the shooting of teenagers, but this is largely a certain section of the community (it would be politically incorrect for me to identify them) involved in teenage gang warfare, and the killings are largely confined to this group.

Fact being there, was that the Chief of Police decision for the area where this nutter lived was about to have his licence revoked but the costs involved of dragging it through the courts was going to be costly, the Firearms Licensing department were fully aware of this man and his mental state and were pressing for the revocation of his licence, well the Chief of Police soon resigned after Dunblane happened. Gun crime in the UK has risen by 42% since all legally owned handguns were banned.