Gun crime

[fizzyboot]

Following the recent murders in London, our tough Prime Minister, Tony "tough on crime" Blair has launched a tough new initiative1, to show how tough he is on gun crime: he's increasing the sentence for gun possession.

Comments

[zotz]

It's not actually a big change. In general it restates existing law.

[fizzyboot]

It isn't a big change, since it only affects people aged 18-21. However, since it is a change, it cannot by definition merely be restating existing law.

[zotz]

Parliament already passed a law saying that, but it was deemed too unclear to be enforceable. Clarifying it is therefore restating parliament's intentions.

This was all in today's paper, incidentally.

[princealbert]

ooooh a domestic!

[luckylove]

In my current state of mind I'm all for shooting all people, who aren't cops or army people or farmers etc, who have illegal guns. That'll stop them from doing any harm with them.

Of course you'd have to arrest them first and make sure it was a proper gun rather than a blank firing replica. If it was a replica and they were using it as a real gun just to intimidate people then they can be shot too.

[fizzyboot]

I don't think the problem is so much guns as that some people want to do nasty things to other people.