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> I think this might be more of a difference between the legality of guns in the US and UK. I don't think so; UK gun restrictions are relatively recent (~20 ye
by kps 9y ago
> I think this might be more of a difference between the legality of guns in the US and UK.
I don't think so; UK gun restrictions are relatively recent (~20 years). I would attribute it to the Peelian Principles¹, which post-date US disconnection from Britain.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
- tomxor 9y agoInteresting, I didn't know about the peelian principles, and no doubt a substantial amount of differences can be attributed to it... however I still suspect gun ownership differences play a significant role, 20 years law or not, guns are and have been prevalent in the US like they have never been in the UK.
- alimw 9y ago> UK gun restrictions are relatively recent (~20 years). This statement is misleading. Yes there were gun laws made twenty years ago, as there were ten years before that, twenty years before that, thirty years before that ... right back to 1594. Source Wikipedia.