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If so few criminals have guns in the UK now, why has gun crime been rising?
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When gun crime has increased four-fold (according to the times article you provided) and still occupies less that .5% of all crime, that doesn't say a lot. Or to put it another way zero times a million is still zero.
But that is irrelevent because, according to the actual police statistics, gun crime is not going up; it is going down: -
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* The number of overall offences involving firearms fell by 13% in 2006/07 compared to the previous year.
* Firearms were involved in 566 serious or fatal injuries in 2006/07, compared to 645 the previous year - a drop of 12%.
* The number of armed robberies involving guns dropped by 3%
* There were 13% fewer serious and fatal injuries related to gun crimes in 2006/07.
* The number of reported crimes involving imitation guns dropped by 15% in 2006/07.
* The number of reported crimes involving air guns dropped by 15% in 2006/07 over 2005/06.
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That doesn't sound difficult to get a hold of.
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Well obviously they are not so easy to get hold of, undoubtedly if they were then criminals would actually use them, as opposed to being employed in less than half a percent of crimes.