Weapons sell for just £50 as suspects and victims grow ever younger — Times Online

Despite a ban on handguns introduced in 1997 after 16 children and their teacher were shot dead in the Dunblane massacre the previous year, their use in crimes has almost doubled to reach 4,671 in 2005-06. Official figures show that although Britain has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world, firearm use in crime has risen steadily.

I’m just shocked — shocked — that people who would violate a law prohibiting murder would also violate a law prohibiting guns. It’s just insanity to believe that a human being would have the capacity to murder another human being and also have the capacity to violate a gun law!

For what it’s worth, I respectfully urge any criminal considering entering my house without my consent to decide against that idea.