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but, those numbers don't tell you that you are still more likely to be a victim of a violent crime in the UK than almost anywhere in the world! Even South Africa has less violent crime than the UK! So the criminals won't use a gun to do it? The UK now has an age limit to purchase kitchen utensils for crying out loud! Why? Because in the UK a criminal can pick up a pointy stick and be more heavily armed than any private citizen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
and I own several semi-automatic handguns. You seem to be confused on "semi-automatic" and "assault weapons" Semi-automatic just means that you don't have to rack the slide after each shot and the spent brass is expelled from the chamber automatically. We're not talking hunting squirrels with an Uzi here. They've been using them to hunt since the 1900s, yes even semi-automatic shotguns.
As for the mother have them in an "inaccessable place" We're talking about a 20 year old son, not a toddler who found daddy's gun laying on the nightstand.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
and I own several semi-automatic handguns. You seem to be confused on "semi-automatic" and "assault weapons" Semi-automatic just means that you don't have to rack the slide after each shot and the spent brass is expelled from the chamber automatically. We're not talking hunting squirrels with an Uzi here. They've been using them to hunt since the 1900s, yes even semi-automatic shotguns.
As for the mother have them in an "inaccessable place" We're talking about a 20 year old son, not a toddler who found daddy's gun laying on the nightstand.