[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes you are right Retlaw...people DO kill people,(it seems that life is a cheap commodity)and they use more means than guns...nevertheless, it makes no sense to be giving just anyone a licence to hold a firearm.
All that said, it is NOT the licenced guns that are the problem in this country...I think that currently knife crime is far and away the greater problem... with thugs and gangs having a point scoring system for their violent activity...and in the main these gangs seem to be of Afro Caribbean heritage.
So what makes them act in such a way?
Maybe we should round up these young men(and girls) and put them into a situation where they can practice their violence in a real conflict situation.
It is obvious that they think that violence is a way of life...a way to make them feel like they have power....and THAT is what it all boils down to. POWER...they want to feel that they have the power over someone who is weaker and more vulnerable.
Just how sad is that??
I say it more and more...I despair of the way the world is going.