Mr.V.
Member
Well, now you can officially say (as if you couldn't before) that even when a strict gun ban exists, the only way to enforce it is with random searches...
Oh yeah you can also say that banning guns does nothing...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18022007/397/gun-crime-measures-reviewed-0.html
Oh yeah you can also say that banning guns does nothing...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18022007/397/gun-crime-measures-reviewed-0.html
Tony Blair has insisted the wave of gun crime sweeping Britain's cities is "a specific problem within a specific criminal culture".
Announcing a major review of firearms laws in the wake of five fatal shootings in London, the Prime Minister argued gun violence is not a "general state of British society".
One man was shot dead in east London on Saturday and three others were wounded in shootings in Manchester as armed gangs continued to show their contempt for the law.
The latest attacks came after a spate of gun murders in south London in less than a fortnight, including the deaths of three teenage boys.
Mr Blair has ordered a review of gun laws to help police deal with Britain's inner-city gang culture.
He is considering proposals including lowering the age at which the mandatory five-year sentence for carrying a gun can be imposed from 21 to 17.
Police could also be given new powers, similar to those of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency, to mount surveillance of the homes of people suspected of possessing and using firearms.
A summit this week will bring together ministers, police and community leaders to discuss how best to tackle the problem.
Mr Blair acknowledged there was a "real problem" but said gun crime, and violent crime in general, fell in London over the past year.
He said: "We have got to analyse what is going wrong here. Is it a general state of British society, British young people? And I think it isn't.
"It is about a specific problem within a specific criminal culture to do with guns and gangs, which doesn't make it any less serious, incidentally, but I think it's important therefore that we address that actual issue.
"How do we make sure that these groups of young people within these specific criminal cultures, who are getting into gangs at an early age and using guns, how do we clamp down on them very hard and provide solutions for that?"
Mr Blair earlier described the shooting of three teenagers in south London as "horrific, shocking and tragic beyond belief".
On Friday Conservative leader David Cameron argued British society was "badly broken" in the wake of the murders of the schoolboys.