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i had heard that in england the police officers don't carry guns but billy club things.. i thought that was odd.. but different countries do differen things.. but to not be allowed to own a single gun at all.. that's just no right imho.. i at one time owned a few guns.. and i love to shoot. but i'm responsable. and i take very precaution that i possable can think of.
can you tell me why that you're not allowed guns? and is it just the military that can own, use guns/weapons?
It's because someone invaded a elementary school in Scotland, and killed a load of little kids.
You can have a gun with a permit, but you cannot possess it. It has to
stay at a "gun club" where you can go visit it and target shoot with it.
Farmers can possess shotguns for wildlife control. The police
traditionally don't have guns, because they traditionally haven't needed
them. (There are police marksmen with guns, but your average cop doesn't
have one.)
The murder rate here is tiny compared with the United States. More people
are murdered every year in Phoenix Arizona than here. And this place as
60 million people, as opposed to >2 million in Phoenix.
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