I'm not sure what the recent shooting in West Cumbria in the UK has to do with the topic of gun control.
As far as I could tell from the articles I've read, the guns used were ones that could be obtained legally.
Also, if there was no gun ban and every other citizen could have been holding a firearm; how that would've stopped a guy who was driving around randomly shooting people.
Also, you won't be aware of this because you don't see the other news reports that question police statistics but in the UK, a gun-related crime counts all crimes where a gun may be involved. That includes cases where it was a deactivated weapon, a replica and even toy (i.e BB) guns. It also includes cases where it was threatened that a gun was present.
As for knife crime increase, this has nothing to do with gun control and more to do with a general increase in a knife culture in kid/youth gangs.
The big talking point is the apparent increase in knife injuries caused by youths on other youths; the point being that these guys couldn't afford a gun if it offered to them illegally anyway.
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Originally Posted by Muscletang
It's also easy to run somebody over but we're not talking about restricting driver's license are we now?
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I always hear this as an example but the simple question is, what is the designed function of a firearm?
Its purpose is to harm and to kill.
With that said, gun control is one of those things that is ok in principle if all things are equal except the reality is, it isn't.
Criminals will not comply with the control so what's the point?