In GFWland (the United Kingdom) there were 18,489 firearms offences reported in 2006-7 & that in a country where politicians of every shade take pride in bragging about how ‘tough’ our gun laws are. However, despite all the bans, the erosion of rights & seizures of private property, as the chart below shows

at least 46% of all gun crime is perpetrated by illegally owned weapons. Yet hardly a week goes by with there be calls for more bans, more seizures of private property from what is statistically the most law abiding (& I would add, responsible) portion of the population.

I could write reams of badly punctuated invective about how unfair it all is, but instead, I would like to compare and contrast the treatment of two different minorities by our self-styled political class. We are repeatedly assured that it is only a tiny minority of Mohammedans that have or want to commit terrorist offences in this country & that it does not behove us to hold the wider Muslim community to account, for the actions of the few.

This same level of (ahem) understanding does not extend to the UK’s shooters. In stark contrast, the Government is only too ready to hold anyone that owns a firearm guilty by association for the actions of 2 individuals. This is music to the ears of the legion of gun-grabbers that live here. However, as regular readers of this topic know, reason & firearms legislation are mutually exclusive.