Derrick Bird, taxi driver, shot 12 people dead in Crumbia. However, he had a licence to bear firearms. The taxi driver had it for over 20 years, Crumbia police said: “He owned a rifle and a shotgun”, similar to the weapons they recovered from the crime scene. Although the UK has some of the toughest gun control laws in the world, you need to spend hours and hours filling in papers, Bird managed to own two firearms. It is a very complicated business to get a licence, every stage of the process is designed to reduce the likelihood of a gun falling into wrong hands. You need to show you have a ‘good reason’ to own a gun, like deer stalking or shooting sports on a approved range. According to the most recent figures for England and Wales, there are 138,728 people to hold firearms and they own 435,383 weapons. There are 574,946 shotgun certificates which cover 1.4 million shotguns. In Crumbia, the place of the crime scene holds 9,868 shotgun certificates covering 22,476 shotguns.
According to the numbers above it seems it is not that difficult to own a gun. There are probably a lot of gun owners who own a gun for other reasons then sports or deer hunting. This frightens me. Why should it be possible for civilians to own a gun? Why do some people need to shoot for fun? I think it should be illegal to own a gun, permanently, no excuses. I see no good reason why people should. It only gives rise to shoot without a reason, or, like the article above, go mad and shoot innocent people.
I totally agree with you. I have always been against the possesion of guns by civillians. These kind of reports only strenghten my feelings towards guns.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenShooting a gun for fun is indeed not necessary.
If it becomes too hard for the law to supervise who is a threat by holding a gun and who is not, then I think it is better if no one is allowed to own a gun.
I like your style of writing. I like it better than the actual article. The actual article was way too long. It's good how you managed to write down all of the important points of the article without making it as long as the article.