A small boy shoots his teacher in US

It should make no difference in a case like this, But does anyone know if the child was black or white?

Why on earth would you ask that?

It should make no difference in a case like this

After the Dunblane massacre in 1996 there was a crackdown on gun ownership here and an amnesty to hand in firearms. I discovered that DfiL otherwise harmless owned a gun without a licence which he reluctantly had to part with.
Fewer guns in circulation. Fewer shootings. Simple.
To my mind the manufacturers are also implicated too.

Grammaretto

After the Dunblane massacre in 1996 there was a crackdown on gun ownership here and an amnesty to hand in firearms. I discovered that DfiL otherwise harmless owned a gun without a licence which he reluctantly had to part with.
Fewer guns in circulation. Fewer shootings. Simple.
To my mind the manufacturers are also implicated too.

I do hope no-one is forgetting the shootings in Plymouth not long ago.

An unstable young man had his gun licence renewed, against advice, for some unfathomable reason.

He killed five people including a little girl and injured two others before killing himself.

The killings happened just weeks after Jake Davison's shotgun and licence were returned to him by Devon and Cornwall Police.

So dreadful Callistemon but who knows how many more lives could have been lost in the intervening years had we in Britain not introduced tighter gun laws.

Vigilance is important too. Regular training for the inspectors and checking which applies in all areas of our lives. Complacency is dangerous.

I work in a food store and cafe. Every day the temperature of the fridges and freezers are checked and kept inspection ready. We have to. Sometimes I wonder why it has to be so often and then remember the poor souls who died from Ecoli food poisoning. (20 in Wishaw 1996)

It seems that Americans bear guns because they are afraid to be without them. Could it be that in countries which have stricter gun control, citizens are not so afraid? Where would you rather be?

Callistemon21

It should make no difference in a case like this

Because America!

It should make no difference, but I am very sure it does.

There are far too many guns in the UK
West Mercia police, a large rural area report 30,000 Firearms plus 70,000 Shotguns in their area, all licensed, that’s an awful lot of guns to be supervised.

Grammaretto

Boogaloo if your legally owned gun is kept in a gun safe well away from ammunition (which is the law here for legal firearms)
How could it possibly be available to "protect" you from a would be assassin?

What is the actual Law in the UK. Are you allowed to keep loaded guns not locked up in gun case/locker?

One good thing our then PM, John Howard,did was to tighten up our gun laws here after the Port Arthur massacre. Before that loads of our road signs had bullet holes from people taking pot shots. Every man and his dog seemed to be able to get a gun ( but not those hideous things Americans get of course).

No you are not.

I thought even an unloaded gun has to be kept locked up.

That’s correct, it does - and ammo kept separately.

As far as I know. My gamekeeper friend has to keep guns locked in the locker. Ammunition must not be with it

Thank you, that is what I thought.

Locked up in a proper gun safe separate from ammunition, your spouse must not know where the keys are kept.