2aguy
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Yep.......if you ban guns, the only ones who will have them are criminals....and only some of the British police.....
Banning guns in Britain for law abiding people has increased their violent crime rate and their gun crime rate....the only thing lagging....gun murder...but apparently the criminals in London are working their way up to this....
Top surgeon tells of devastation caused by handguns used by gangs
A leading trauma surgeon has told of the "devastating" injuries caused by low-velocity rounds fired from handguns preferred by London's street gangs.
Duncan Bew, 43, the clinical lead for trauma and emergency surgery at King’s College Hospital said victims are increasingly targeted with low velocity handguns and shotguns which cause horrendous injuries and are nearly always shot in the torso or limbs.
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We are seeing an increase in the use of low velocity weapons as whole, handguns, and we have seen a lot of shotgun injuries as well."
He told the Standard: “It used to be something we saw relatively infrequently but we have seen a 50 per cent increase in the number of gun injuries in the last 12 months, people of all ages, and not just at the times that you might expect to see them, Friday and Saturday nights, but throughout the week."
He said he was also dealing with more injuries caused by “improvised” weapons, such as screwdrivers or acids and alkaline substances.
“People who have died from their injuries – the ones that make the headlines – are just the tip of the iceberg.”
Banning guns in Britain for law abiding people has increased their violent crime rate and their gun crime rate....the only thing lagging....gun murder...but apparently the criminals in London are working their way up to this....
Top surgeon tells of devastation caused by handguns used by gangs
A leading trauma surgeon has told of the "devastating" injuries caused by low-velocity rounds fired from handguns preferred by London's street gangs.
Duncan Bew, 43, the clinical lead for trauma and emergency surgery at King’s College Hospital said victims are increasingly targeted with low velocity handguns and shotguns which cause horrendous injuries and are nearly always shot in the torso or limbs.
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We are seeing an increase in the use of low velocity weapons as whole, handguns, and we have seen a lot of shotgun injuries as well."
He told the Standard: “It used to be something we saw relatively infrequently but we have seen a 50 per cent increase in the number of gun injuries in the last 12 months, people of all ages, and not just at the times that you might expect to see them, Friday and Saturday nights, but throughout the week."
He said he was also dealing with more injuries caused by “improvised” weapons, such as screwdrivers or acids and alkaline substances.
“People who have died from their injuries – the ones that make the headlines – are just the tip of the iceberg.”
