CD, just cursory looking at a search on The Guardian website on Gun crime + UK news brings up 1467 articles at least 121 of them produced in the last year with probably 30 odd articles related to that shooting of British citizens in France -an incident that's probably an intel agency op, a terror group cleaning house or something else- most of the other articles for the year cover organized crime/gangs with guns, targeted shootings, the murders of three police officers, the murder of an Indian student, gun smuggling, a black gansta murdering two Brits on a US jolly, the sentencing of a gang that shot up a store last year severely wounding a kid, some pieces on gun ownership stats and a murder-suicide performed by a mentally unstable individual who'd got their guns back after appealing a removal order the police imposed on them a number or years previously.
As for the statistics, I think trying the Home Office http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-re ... ics/crime/ might be a start. Which it is for Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2010/11: Supplementary Volume 2 to Crime in England and Wales 2010/11. It's interesting reading the stats, like for incidents involving handguns almost 80% of them never resulted in a discharge.
And Rob take the recorded numbers of that population demographic subtract from that the members of the US Armed Forces (including cadet & reservists), law enforcement, gun owners, the Amish, Montana Militiamen and prisoners and you'll get the rough numbers of just who's not in the militia. Plus from that you can get an idea of just how much the Armed Forces could be boosted by if a draft occurred - or more likely hindered due to the requirements of training and equipping all of them.
As for the statistics, I think trying the Home Office http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-re ... ics/crime/ might be a start. Which it is for Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2010/11: Supplementary Volume 2 to Crime in England and Wales 2010/11. It's interesting reading the stats, like for incidents involving handguns almost 80% of them never resulted in a discharge.
And Rob take the recorded numbers of that population demographic subtract from that the members of the US Armed Forces (including cadet & reservists), law enforcement, gun owners, the Amish, Montana Militiamen and prisoners and you'll get the rough numbers of just who's not in the militia. Plus from that you can get an idea of just how much the Armed Forces could be boosted by if a draft occurred - or more likely hindered due to the requirements of training and equipping all of them.