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Since the UK's gun ban in 1997, gun crime has gone up 89% in a decade: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-violence-Gun-crime-goes-89-decade

by edyang 14y ago

Since the UK's gun ban in 1997, gun crime has gone up 89% in a decade: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-violence-Gun-crime-goes-89-decade.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-viol... "The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year - a rise of 89 per cent. In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold."

summerdown2 14y ago
Unfortunately the Daily Mail isnt really a news source. Try: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb0212/hosb0212snr?view=Binary http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-s... > In 2010/11, firearms were involved in 11,227 recorded offences in England and Wales, the seventh consecutive annual fall and a decrease of 13 per cent compared with the previous year (when 12,976 offences were recorded). Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI