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Violent crime has been climbing ever since.



No it hasn't, Bob.

Not according to UK Government (Home Office) stats , anyway


The comments after this article make interesting reading too but don’t (as I do!) only read the comments which support your own views

What has happened is that the influence of various media (notably films/TV/the press and in particularly the Daily Mail...) has greatly heightened and distorted people's fear of violent crime.

The 'perception gap' between this fear and reality is well documented.

You have a far, far greater chance of getting hit by a motorised vehicle while walking along the pavement, but you can’t sell many tabloids with those kind of stories.

For the vast majority of people, situations in which guns may have a useful defensive purpose do not occur often enough to justify bearing arms. And when they do, the likelihood of the weapon being in the right place at the right time and in the hands of the potential victim and not the assailant is so remote as to justify my original comment on law-abiding citizens’ wishing to own lethal weapons. Insane.

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