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Thats where the "if guns are illegal then only criminals..
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:28 AM EDT
But in England criminals having guns are very rare.

Using that well know factual source - Wikipedia - homicides per year with
firearms per 100000 population in USA is 4.14 and in England 0.07.

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Cornered by a gunman
Authored by: The Cornishman on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:54 AM EDT

That scenario is so incredibly rare that I'd be better off equipping myself with a wiremesh jumpsuit to avoid being killed by lightning than equipping myself with a weapon to counter a gunman.

In England and Wales, in 2009/2010 there were 3,748 handgun offences, of which only 507 involved "injury by being fired, used as a blunt instrument or in a threat". [Source, which has a POV but seems reliable]. This in a population of fifty-odd million people.

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Thats where the "if guns are illegal then only criminals..
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 07:29 AM EDT
However, many of the problems come from DRUGS. And, there is
a problem where the system does not keep them (or the users)
away from society.

First problem is the system needs to look at drugs as a long
term cancer, and remove it, otherwise, the patient will not
get back to full health (anywhere).

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