maybe if they looked into people who bought $20k worth of guns over a couple months, including 6k rounds of ammo, this could have been averted.
no one needs an AR15 and 6,000 rounds of ammo for "self defense".
the logic of the gun nuts is simply backwards. let's talk about all the gun violence that happens in england.
Did Holmes spend $20K?
He had a shotgun, a rifle, and a handgun... total cost around $2,500.
6,000 rounds of ammo... around $3,000.
Total... around $5,500
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....gures.html
Gun crime 60pc higher than official figures
The true level of gun crime is far higher than the Government admits in official statistics, it can be revealed.
"""""Figures to be published by the Home Office this week will massively understate the scale of the problem.
Data provided to The Sunday Telegraph by nearly every police force in England and Wales, under freedom of information laws, show that the number of firearms incidents dealt with by officers annually is 60 per cent higher than figures stated by the Home Office.
Last year 5,600 firearms offences were excluded from the official figures. It means that, whereas the Home Office said there were only 9,800 offences in 2007/8, the real total was around 15,400. The latest quarterly figures, due to be released on Thursday, will again exclude a significant number of incidents."""""
A comment from Reason...
"Anybody who assigns significance or primacy to certain crimes because they're committed with a certain sort of tool is a fucking retard. Assault is assault, robbery is robbery, rape is rape, and thus forth. Who the fuck gives a shit whether it's done with a gun or a baseball bat?
You want statistics? Here's a few for your infantile mind to process, dipshit:
A small list of examples violent crime rates by country, per 100,000 people:
1) Britain: 2,034 (that's their freak, peak low, by the way, which has since risen again.
2) Austria: 1,677.
3) South Africa: 1,609.
4) Sweden: 1,123.
5) Belgium: 1,006.
6) Canada: 935.
7) Finland: 738.
United States: 466 (dropped even farther in 1.5 years since collection of data, note)."
http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/26/american-elites-obsession-with-gun-contr#comments