Due to always having low gun ownership rates.
Wrong...culture.....their criminals do not choose to use their illegal guns to commit murder......ours do. Britain can't stop the flood of illegal guns into their country, yet their criminals don't commit murder as often...yet...but they are building up to it...
Police struggle to stop flood of firearms into UK
Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned.
Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised crime, said law enforcement had seen an increased supply of guns over the past year, and feared that it would continue in 2019
The Guardian has learned that the situation is so serious that the National Crime Agency has taken the rare step of using its legal powers to direct every single police force to step up the fight against illegal guns.
The NCA has used tasking powers to direct greater intelligence about firearms to be gathered by all 43 forces in England and Wales.
Another senior law enforcement official said that “new and clean” weapons were now being used in the majority of shootings, as opposed to guns once being so difficult to obtain that they would be “rented out” to be used in multiple crimes.
Cooke, the Merseyside chief constable, told the Guardian: “We in law enforcement expect the rise in new firearms to continue. We are doing all we can. We are not in a position to stop it anytime soon.
“Law enforcement is more joined up now than before, but the scale of the problem is such that despite a number of excellent firearms seizures, I expect the rise in supply to be a continuing issue.”
The increasing supply of guns belies problems with UK border security and innovations by organised crime gangs. Smugglers have increasingly found new ways and innovative routes to get guns past border defences.
Cooke said that the dynamics of the streets of British cities had changed and that criminals were more willing to use guns: “If they bring them in people will buy them. It’s a kudos thing for organised criminals.”
Simon Brough, head of firearms at the NCA, said: “The majority of guns being used are new, clean firearms ... which indicates a relatively fluid supply.”
He said shotguns were 40% of the total, with an increase in burglaries to try and steal them.
Handguns are the next biggest category, most often smuggled in from overseas, with ferry ports such as Dover being a popular entry point into the UK for organised crime groups:
“We’re doing a lot to fight back against it,” Brough said, adding that compared to other European countries, the availability in the UK was relatively lower.
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Crime will continue to rise until us bobbies are released from the shackles of the PC police
The national crime figures released this week confirmed what my colleagues and I have known for some time. Violent crime is out of control and criminals now see certain cities and towns across the country as places where they can act with impunity.
This is not just about gangland battles in the likes of Brixton or Tottenham. What we are facing is a national crisis, fast spreading across the provinces.
In the West Midlands, for example, we had a murder rate last year on a par with that of London. Gun crime in our region is running at similarly high levels and violent thugs in my area have developed a
Yes with strong gun control criminals choose not to. Good gun control argument.
You can't be this ignorant.
Well, unless you are.
The man broke the law when he drove across the border with the weapon he bought in Nevada.
He then broke the law every day he was in possession of that weapon in California.
Do you think he cared?
Weak gun laws made it so easy.
Our laws are weak only because they are not enforced
When they are enforced they actually work
and that's the point. we have a ton of laws and the problem continues to grow. you'd think that if passing laws was the answer, all the laws we have passed to date would have slowed this down. it hasn't really, has it? violent gun crime rises and falls through the decades without the laws having much of an impact at all.
this is why i don't understand why the anti-gun crowd screams MOAR LAWS!!!!
Why even gun laws that exist don't always get enforced - CNNPolitics
just one example and it says we have a lot of toothless laws put on the books for political reasons. a dog and pony show. they don't address the problem and to date i've yet to hear the gun control crowd suggest laws or actions that would have stopped any known shooting we've had in the last decade. instead we get colorado gov officials banning high capacity mags saying when used they get thrown away and soon all will be gone.
the level of ignorance in the people making these laws, while painful, doesn't hurt near as much as the damage they do shouting out their ignorance to people looking for something to hear that will make the pain go away. that's all the left, and the right, want and share. make the pain and shootings go away.
then we need to correlate laws to impact on what we've seen happen and stop pushing for laws that are again, that dog and pony show designed to help that person with their ears covered screaming MAKE THE PAIN GO AWAY feel better. til the next shooting and we rinse and repeat.
i'm open to change. but i'm not open to wholesale changes of our constitution nor removal of gun rights for the law abiding. we don't take alcohol away from everyone cause drunk drivers kill people. but that's what the anti-gun crowd wants in essence. but those changes must be logical, not emotional. removing things like the gun show loophole won't stop a thing except private sales at gun shows, which is very uncommon anyway. they will still sell privately and move on with their lives.
but the underlying question is WHY? why are people so angry? well have you watched TV lately? that's what we're told to be by our leadership. angry at trump. angry at obama. angry at the clintons. angry at sarah sanders and we must kick her kind out of our business. the anti-fa is out there beating people up and the left cheers it on and rushes to blame nameless "white supremacists" as violent. i've yet to see ANYONE who pulls this out of their ass name a specific group other than the KKK who no one supports anyway.
we give kids drugs cause they're energetic little shits and we have lazy parenting. no idea if that played a role in gilroy so we'll wait and see. but it has played a role in most major mass shootings in the last decade or more. that can't be ignored.
we need to address our anger issues and stop focusing on the tools people use to express that anger. take away one tool they'll move to another.
we got a lot of work to do here but will get nowhere with the leadership we have today. we'll get pyrrhic victories each side will hold up as a triumph and continue to drift apart with our useless, divisive "victories".
while we do need to stop screaming MAKE THE PAIN GO AWAY, the only way to do that is stop hating everything. from there we have a fighting chance. but as long as you "hate" you'll never see things from another point of view but rather in visions that support your hate. we don't need to pass more gun laws.
we need to grow up.
