US gun nuts are full of suggestions about how changing gun laws would
reduce the crime epidemic in the UK.
As a US gun nut, I do think that the UK's gun laws need reform. But more
than that, I think your laws regarding self-defense need reform.
But what you mostly need is reform in the way your police work.
Hence:
The results were astonishing. By the end of 2007, major felonies had
dropped 68 percent, and homicides 67 percent, from their 2003 high -
possibly a national record.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/
gotham_knights_119673.htm?page=0
GOTHAM KNIGHTS
NEW YORK CITY'S GREATEST EXPORT: CRIMEFIGHTERS
By HEATHER MacDONALD
Last updated: 10:28 am
July 13, 2008
Posted: 3:43 am
July 13, 2008