in 1250146 20051120 170155 Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:48:58 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Bob
Martin quickly quoth:

in 1249912 20051119 170107 "Morris Dovey" wrote:
Mark & Juanita (in ) said:

| BTW, how are those restrictions on law abiding citizens working
| out over there? Has it kept the criminal element from being any
| more dangerous?

Last night the BBC reported that one female police "probationer"
(trainee?) had been shot to death and another wounded in the shoulder
by not-law-abiding persons. I'd assume that the answer to your
questions are "questionably" and "no".

That was an ordinary armed robbery, something which happens
a thousand times more in the US than in Britain.
You're getting desperate!

There are "a thousand times" more people here, Bob. UK crime rates
are actually higher than the US.

Google it. The facts are there. We just went through this a couple
months ago either here on on rec.crafts.metalworking. DAGS on that.

http://www.jointogether.org/gv/issues/problem/global/

This says that gun-related deaths in the USA were 300 times the number in Britain,
but the US population is only 4-5 times that of the UK. I admit these are pretty old
figures, but a gun killing still makes national headlines here.
Another poster here talked about Britain being "disarmed" - sorry but that is nonsense.
Hand guns were banned in a knee-jerk reaction to the Dunblane school killings,
but the only people affected were legitimate members of pistol-shooting clubs.
The general populace have never owned guns for protection - only criminals have
guns.