A British subject speaks out.
This was originally posted by a guy called “Western Shinma” on www.nationstates.net

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That said, when I was living in Leicester, UK – (which has ‘no guns’) I can easily recall at least three “shootings” with handguns and one shotgun “shooting”. Three of the four events were fatal, and all happened within a one mile circumference of my front door.

So, no legal guns definitely does not mean no gun crime.

Also, for those who would argue that guns kill people (rather than facing the much more ugly fact that people kill people, and guns are merely a tool) – a further “shooting” took place outside a nightclub in the same area, in which the victim was “shot” while on a public payphone, by an assailant with a nailgun.

A close friend of mine had his eyeball gouged out with a broken bottle. A group of youths kicked a tramp to death. A citizen was pushed onto railway lines infront of an inter-city train.

People do not need guns to hurt each other. Maybe my friend would still have two eyes, the tramp wouldn’t have been brutally beaten, and the railway incident could have been avoided if the criminal elements had thought, even for a second, that the victim, or a passer-by, might have been armed.

And Leicester isn’t conventionally considered a particularly bad neighbourhood. I just live in reality