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UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk, in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. We mentioned the first of the three arrests on Monday; a second arrest took place Thursday, as related by Ars Technica, of a 16-year-old from west London. The latest arrest is of a 20-year-old from Staffordshire.
Incorrect. You can use them to get food or as protection from others with guns. Both are legit scenarios. You also overlook that someone with a gun's less likely to fuck with another someone who has one too. Don't speak in absolutes that were used to brainwash you as a people into being subservient obedient living in fear slaves. Ironic. The very thing your people tried with their sailing and trading fleets are being done to YOU by your own rulers.
Outlawing guns only keeps them from lawful people. Criminals still get them anyway.
Guns are extremely rarely used in crime in the UK. Criminals know that if they appear anywhere with a gun, all the police over a very wide radius will descend on them like a ton of bricks; it isn't worth it.
I would have no idea how to get a gun if I decided to commit a crime with one, and most criminals, who are petty criminals anyway, would have no idea either. Even if such a small criminal, a house burglar say, happened to know a serious criminal gang who could possible provide him with one, they would be extremely unlikely to provide it to him at any price, not wanting to be linked to him. Their attitude would be "WTF do you need a gun for, just to burgle a house?". Because if the police found anyone with a gun, they would get the provider's name out of him.