Sentences with phrase «many gun crimes»

One of the most useful things to do when thinking about gun control and its controversial place in American society is to consider other countries and their relationship to guns and gun crime.

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

There are very tough anti-gun laws in some cities and jurisdictions, and those cities and jurisdictions also have high gun crime rates.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

In the broadest of strokes, rural gun owners resented it, while urbanites who feared gun crime approved.

President Bush sits down to sign the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shielded the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes.

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Chicago has total gun bans and the highest gun crime rates in the country.

Banning «assault rifles» to try and combat gun crimes is like banning sports cars to try and prevent drunk driving.

An increasing percentage of gun crimes are committed by people with no previous police record and / or by the mentally deranged or the ideological fanatics.

Heavy - handed enforcement and severe penalties for gun crimes and the like are a good start.

And don't tell me that I'd change my tune if I were a victim of gun crime, just google the horrible situation of Suzanna Hupp at a Luby's in the early 90s.

The assault weapon ban was SOOOO successful in stopping gun crimes the LAST time, liberals want to do it again... What is the definition of insanity?

I preached about the proliferation of violence which is at the root of more than just gun crimes.

A Home Office spokesperson said: «The government wholly supports the powers of stop and search and believes it to be a vital tool for police officers in preventing, detecting and reducing crime, whether it be street robbery, gun crime, drug - dealing or terrorism.

Commenting on the chief constable's claims, shadow home secretary David Davis accused the government of failing «to get a grip» on gun crime.

«Generally I feel the judiciary are supportive about what we are trying to do about gun crime and we have seen some excellent sentences which send out the right message.

«My chief officer colleagues and I have been invited by the home secretary Jacqui Smith to undertake some urgent work building on recent successes to identify what additional progress we can make to work more effectively across all government agencies and with both statutory and non-statutory organisations, around tackling gang related gun crime and the supply of guns.»

Ms Smith said: «One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police [and] to be willing to come forward.

Earlier this week, the prime minister said ministers were already examining measures to reduce gun crime, including greater powers for the police.

Ministers must change the law to guarantee witnesses of gun crime anonymity, senior police officers have said.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said violent, and in particular gun crime, is «still far higher» than ten years ago.

Inspector Derek Carroll, who leads the armed unit, said: «Historically, CO19 was only called out when someone rang up to report a gun crime.

The full gun crime statistics for 2007 will be published at the end of the month and will include some of the 27 teenagers murdered by guns or knives in London last year.

Liddle: - The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African - Caribbean community.

Tenney in a statement suggested her comment was being taken out of context, insisting she was talking about the issues surrounding urban gun crimes.

«The gun industry and its allies often attempt to block research and data - gathering on gun violence, but analysis like this can both demonstrate the life - saving effectiveness of sensible gun laws, and also help us prevent gun crimes and solve them when they occur.

Britain's youngest victim of gun crime went into cardiac arrest twice before being rushed to hospital after the incident in 2011.

This suggests that the link between gun crime and gun ownership is more tenuous than knee - jerk reactions take for granted.

I understand that Canada also has widespread gun ownership and much more liberal gun laws than we have with proportionately fewer incidents of gun crime than the US.

But since targeting the spike in gun crime, it has been cut by 13 % in a year, and we have to do the same with knife crime.

Isn't a justified liberal response to this that if you have evidence that gun liberalisation in your society would lead to more not less gun crime, than gun control is a legitimate liberal response?

Local officials and community activists celebrated Dr. King's birthday with calls to end gun crime.

Knife crime and gun crime are serious problems.

Sheriff Howard advocates that legislators focus their attention on the people who commit gun crimes rather than on guns — a test that the SAFE law fails miserably.

Jon Murphy, head of the gun crime task force at the Home Office, described the scenario as a «classic no - win situation».

«That is why we set up the Tackling Gangs Action Programme last year to focus on gun and gang violence in the four cities where over half of gun crime occurs.»

The Home Office maintains the overall chances of being a victim of gun crime are low, with firearms offences making up 0.3 per cent of all recorded crime in England and Wales in 2006/07.

Andrew Cuomo doesn't want to answer tough questions but the fact remains gun crime has increased in the major cities since his overnight passing of this ill thought law.

This afternoon's event was supposed to focus on gun crimes in low - income communities, and to push for more city funding for summer jobs intiatives, but activist Tamika Mallory took it as an opportunity to blast the commissioner for his «disparaging» remarks.

During that show, the host mentioned gun crimes in inner cities.

[21] The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that the planned arrest was part of Operation Trident, which at that time investigated gun crime within the black community.

The government maintains gun crime is rare but concedes it is a problem for some areas, such as London, Liverpool and Nottingham.

We already have the tightest controls in Europe but there is more we can do to remove the threat of gun crime.»

Following the recent focus on gun crime, Mr Blair defended the government's record on knife crime, stating that it would be introducing tougher sentences for the possession of knives.

Asked whether a repeal of the ban would cause gun crime in the city to go back to levels seen in the nineties he replied: «Of course not.

The prime minister has promised that the government will respond to police calls for a tougher stance on gun crime.

Farage claimed the ban on handguns, brought in after the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, is «ludicrous» and believes there is «no link» between legalised guns and gun crime in the UK.

Today's research was released at the start of the Police Federation's annual conference, and chairwoman Jan Berry said they revealed the need for more firearms officers to deal with the increasing number of gun crimes reported each year.

The government's claim that gun crime is a localised problem has been contradicted by new research showing one in eight men know someone who has acquired an illegal firearm.