gun crime news from across the pond

[Harry Tuttle]

Guardian Unlimited, Mon, 11 Oct 2004 7:36 PM PDT
School leads mourning for gun victim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,2763,1325148,00.html
A 14-year-old girl who was shot dead as she returned from an evening out with a group of friends at Nottingham's medieval Goose Fair was yesterday described by her headteacher as "beautiful, vivacious and popular".

Guardian Unlimited, Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:00 AM PDT
Police chief: I'll catch killer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-4543621,00.html
The head of a police force plagued by gun crime has vowed to catch the killers of a schoolgirl tragically shot dead on her way home from a fairground.

The New Zealand Herald, Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:05 AM PDT
Girl, 14, latest victim in Britain's gun capital
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3599650&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
The Friday evening of Nottingham's 700-year-old Goose Fair was always one of Danielle Beccan's eagerly awaited events of the year.

The Scotsman, Mon, 11 Oct 2004 5:02 PM PDT
Courts must support police on guns
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1183902004
STEPHEN SMITH WHICH is more dangerous, the car or the gun? The former certainly kills more each year, but then again, we wouldn't want everyone to own the latter.

Press Association via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News, Tue, 12 Oct 2004 9:14 AM PDT
Gun crime must be 'nipped in bud'
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041012/344/f4f2k.html
Britain must crack down on gun crime to prevent it snowballing out of control, a senior Home Office civil servant has said.

BBC News, Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:45 PM PDT
US expert warns UK over gun crime
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/2/hi/uk_news/3737662.stm
A former American police chief who helped reduce violent crime urges immediate action to combat Britain's gun culture

Guardian Unlimited, Tue, 12 Oct 2004 7:04 PM PDT
Police identify 'impact players'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,2763,1326016,00.html
Britain has a "very, very small" gun-crime problem but it needs to be "nipped in the bud before it snowballs out of control", a former top US police officer told MPs yesterday.

Independent, Tue, 12 Oct 2004 4:51 PM PDT
Toddler joins the growing list of gun crime victims as attacker sprays car with bullets
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=571587
An 18-month-old girl became the youngest victim of Britain's gun epidemic yesterday after being caught in a barrage of bullets apparently aimed at her father.

Guardian Unlimited, Tue, 12 Oct 2004 7:05 PM PDT
Five arrests made in Danielle case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,2763,1325869,00.html
Five men were arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Danielle Beccan, the 14-year-old girl shot in Nottingham last weekend. The police said the five were stopped in central London on Monday evening, held and then taken to Nottingham, where they arrived last night.

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

They definitely need stronger gun control laws in the UK. It's an approach thats been proven to work time and again in such places as...

 

[fedlaw]

They definitely need stronger gun control laws in the UK. It's an approach thats been proven to work time and again in such places as...

Welcome to Chicago.

 

[Ivy Mike]

"They clearly have no idea of the escalating gun culture in Nottingham and other cities, which is fuelled by drugs and needs urgent attention before more innocent lives are lost."

This is really funny. They get advice on how to help their problems from true experts and they turn their noses up at it.
Go ahead, ban more guns...its working really well isn't it? Oh wait, your gun violence rates have effectively doubled in recent years...haven't they?

 

[carebear]

Oh, I didn't get that the former US guy was against double-secret banning guns more, just that they should profile as well.

 

[Standing Wolf]

It's an approach thats been proven to work time and again in such places as...

The suspense is killing me!