Guy in Cumbria goes nuts,shoots a bunch

Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

Like I said, you can't predict every eventuality... if he was a legal owner with the relevant checks then perhaps there were mistakes made in the past? People die every day, I'm not trying to play down this tragedy... but how many people are stabbed to death every day?

Knife crime in this country is so rampant that people aren't so surprised by it when people are killed as its perhaps regarded as "the norm" by them. Yet as soon as someone is shot dead everyone is up in arms fearing for their lives from the loony gun owners. It feels to me that there is a big social stigma in the UK against people who own guns, you say to someone "Oh yeah I own a rifle and go shooting at the weekends with friends" and they look at you as if you've got a screw loose. However if I were to say "Oh did you know I recently started archery" they would be like oh wow that's interesting... arrows kill just the same as bullets.

I hope this post has some kind of structure to it, as I'm in a bit of a ranty mood this morning lol.

How exactly are firearm violence and knife violence mutually exclusive? If you look at high violent crime nations like, unfortunately, Finland, you'll see that high firearm violence tends to occure side by side with high knife violence. If by legislative and other means it is possible to reduce the amount of firearm violence, by what logic will this increase knife violence?

To say knifes = firearms only makes me think that somebody needs to visit the optician, pronto!