They were told that if they handed in their guns that gun crime and violent crime would go down.
I believe they were told the rate of mass shootings would reduce. It has. Whereas in the US the rate of mass shootings has increased. But if you ignore it for long enough you'll be able to pretend you're not a raving loony.
Wrong....they were averaging one mass shooting every ten years. In the last few years they almost had three, two were stopped by dumb luck, the other one was stopped because the 15 year old called the police on himself ...
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Teenage boys planned to 'kill everyone' at Yorkshire school in Columbine-style gun and bomb massacre, court hears
Two teenage boys planned to “kill everyone” at their
Yorkshireschool in a
Columbine-style massacre using bombs and guns, a court has heard.
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The document said the boy would “lay low” in Catterick before murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents and stealing her father’s guns, the court heard.
“I’ll make some explosives then well find a way back to Northallerton and well begin our assault on that f****** school,” it continued
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"This was no teenage fantasy; it was real,” he added. “They intended a re-enactment of the Columbine High School Massacre although fortunately, in the result, they were stopped before their plans were put into action.”
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British teen sentenced to life for planned school attack
Despite some of the tightest gun control on the planet, a British man was able to acquire a handgun, extended mags and explosives as part of a plot to attack his former school.
Liam Lyburd, 19, of Newcastle upon Tyne, was sentenced to life imprisonment this week on eight charges of possessing weapons with intent to endanger life.
As noted by the
BBC, Lyburd gathered a cache that included a Glock 19, three 33-round magazines, 94 hollow-point bullets, CS gas, five pipe bombs and two other improvised explosive devices despite the country’s long history of civilian arms control.
According to court documents, Lyburd planned to use the weapons in an attack on Newcastle College, from which he had been expelled two years prior for poor attendance. He was arrested
last November after two Northumbria Police constables visited him at his home on a
tip from an individual who encountered threats and disturbing pictures posted by Lyburd online.
Despite a defense that portrayed the reclusive man as living in a fantasy world, Lyburd was found guilty in July.
The internet-savvy teen obtained the Glock and other items through Evolution Marketplace, a successor to the
Silk Road, a long-time “dark web” site in which users could buy and sell everything from illegal narcotics to munitions using Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
In court, Lyburd
testified that buying the Glock was so easy it was “like buying a bar of chocolate.”
He obtained funds for his purchases through a complex extortion scheme in which he used online malware to infect computers, which he in turn held for ransom from their owners.
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Teenage boy 'took shotgun to school after being bullied for being fat'
15-year-old boy arrested for taking shotgun and ammunition into school did it because he was being bullied for being too fat, fellow pupils said.
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