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Here in the UK, there are very strong gun controls - and guess what, there has not been a single mass shooting incident since these gun controls were introduced

by SeanDav 11y ago

Here in the UK, there are very strong gun controls - and guess what, there has not been a single mass shooting incident since these gun controls were introduced - whereas in the USA there seems to be mass shooting incidents every other month. EDIT I should have said mass shootings incidents in the UK are extremely rare, but of course not impossible because people can still legally keep shotguns and rifles.

buffportion 11y ago
France also has very strong gun controls. It is of course, more complicated than that. And, by the way, a man shot and killed 12 people in the UK in 2010 with legally held rifles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
- mike_hearn 11y ago
  France's gun controls are looser than the UK's, but more importantly they don't have a defensible border. Laws are one thing: successful implementation of them is something quite different. The EU has a very weak border in general and especially once former eastern bloc countries joined Schengen, stockpiles of former Soviet weapons overnight went from one side of the border to the other.
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