Britain to use £150,000 sensors in drive to cut gun crime

[t20]

Full Report:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/0 ... -gun-crime

[xl_target]

There are still guns on the street? ....but... but... they already banned guns. How can this be?

"The technology will tell us how many firearms have been discharged prior to officers arriving, which enables us to maximise the safety of our officers and [the] public," he said.

..and just how will knowing how many firearms have been discharged maximize safety?

[Subal das]

There are still guns on the street? ....but... but... they already banned guns. How can this be?

"The technology will tell us how many firearms have been discharged prior to officers arriving, which enables us to maximise the safety of our officers and [the] public," he said.

..and just how will knowing how many firearms have been discharged maximize safety?

it can in fact maximize safety of officers a lot, if you see count of shots very high, then sit tight and wait till it stops ... no one alive, officers can do their work .... great ... perfectly safe.

I bet that any idiotic project to maximize safety in India too, can be a good business start up.

[goodboy_mentor]

There are still guns on the street? ....but... but... they already banned guns. How can this be?

It is just the way it happened in Germany. We have forgotten Mr. Hitler. Something in disguise is probably going on in U.K. which is beyond the capacity of sheeple to perceive.

“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!” Adolf Hitler

“All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately...The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every responsible opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above-named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon...must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.” — SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA — ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the state.” - Heinrich Himmler.

[boatme99]

295 gun incidents?
150,000 pounds?
How's that gun ban working for you, Birmingham?

[goodboy_mentor]

Gun ban is not working, but the art of fooling the people is working perfect.

[mundaire]

United Kingdom has banned handgun ownership by individuals and does not recognize self-defence as a reason for owning arms.

In UK violent attacks are estimated to be 44 per cent higher than they were in 1998 after research on the way police record them allowed comparisons for the first time.

The study, by the independent House of Commons Library, shows violence against the person increased from 618,417 to 887,942 in 2008.

It is in stark contrast with the British Crime Survey (BCS), which questions more than 40,000 people, which reports violent crime has dropped from 3.5 million to 2.1 million over the same period.
The BCS also does not include certain offence, including murder and other homicides and offences committed by under 16-year-olds.

This shows that the simplistic approach of IANSA and its sister organizations that banning guns will lead to an automatic drop in violence is not true. In fact gun violence has gone up by 89% in a decade in UK.

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 in 2008 - a rise of 89 %

In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.

In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled. The number of people injured or killed by guns, excluding air weapons, has increased from 864 in 1998/99 to a provisional figure of 1,760 in 2008/09, an increase of 104 %

Source: http://www.davekopel.org

[MoA]

Waste of money

[striker]

Stupid British ruined our arms poilicy by framing them and still in same nature . Reducing the vehicle population will never cuts the accidents down similarly ban on guns never cuts the crime down