2aguy
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They banned guns. Right? I am not making that up...right? They banned guns for normal people who don't use them for gun crime...now they are arming police and sending in patrols...for areas with heavy gun crime.....
Really?
Armed police to patrol shooting ‘hotspots’ in Newham, Hackney, Haringey, Brent, Lambeth and Southwark
Armed police patrols will target gun crime hotspots across the capital after a rise in the number of shootings, as Scotland Yard says there are more guns on the streets.
----Scotland Yard said the majority of shootings last year involved handguns. In 2015, 56% were handguns, 27% shotguns, 2% automatic weapons and 15% unknown or converted imitations.
Among victims 42% had links to gangs, and half of victims had links to drug dealing.
Sir Bernard said the rise in shootings nationally suggests that more weapons are getting on to the streets.
“The potential is that more guns have got through than we’ve known about and they’ve got in to the hands of criminals.
That’s the best explanation at the moment. “Clearly in some areas there is a gang element to it but that doesn’t account for all of it.
The fact that we’re seeing it across the country in the big cities probably indicates that we’re talking about more supply.” He warned that terrorists could go to criminal sources to buy guns.
“As we’ve seen in Europe, particularly looking at France and Belgium, if we allow easy access or allow any liberal approach to the possession of firearms for criminals, then it allows the possibility that terrorists get hold of it.Terrorists are generally going to go to a criminal source to supply them, there’s no way we want that to happen in Britain.”
Really?
Armed police to patrol shooting ‘hotspots’ in Newham, Hackney, Haringey, Brent, Lambeth and Southwark
Armed police patrols will target gun crime hotspots across the capital after a rise in the number of shootings, as Scotland Yard says there are more guns on the streets.
----Scotland Yard said the majority of shootings last year involved handguns. In 2015, 56% were handguns, 27% shotguns, 2% automatic weapons and 15% unknown or converted imitations.
Among victims 42% had links to gangs, and half of victims had links to drug dealing.
Sir Bernard said the rise in shootings nationally suggests that more weapons are getting on to the streets.
“The potential is that more guns have got through than we’ve known about and they’ve got in to the hands of criminals.
That’s the best explanation at the moment. “Clearly in some areas there is a gang element to it but that doesn’t account for all of it.
The fact that we’re seeing it across the country in the big cities probably indicates that we’re talking about more supply.” He warned that terrorists could go to criminal sources to buy guns.
“As we’ve seen in Europe, particularly looking at France and Belgium, if we allow easy access or allow any liberal approach to the possession of firearms for criminals, then it allows the possibility that terrorists get hold of it.Terrorists are generally going to go to a criminal source to supply them, there’s no way we want that to happen in Britain.”
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