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| News Date | Wednesday, October 1, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Imagine that the number of crimes in which firearms were used had declined dramatically since the ownership of handguns was banned. Politicians of every party who voted for the ban, introduced by the then Home Secretary, Michael Howard, after the Dunblane massacre, would today be congratulating themselves on their wisdom. They would be saying that handgun crime had gone down as a direct consequence of their decision to ban handguns.
But handgun crime has not gone down since the ban came into force in 1997. In fact, it has gone up - and very dramatically so. Figures released yesterday, which detail increases in offences ranging from burglary to mugging and sexual attacks, showed that the number of offences in which handguns were used increased by 46 per cent last year alone. Since the ban was introduced, the annual figure has more than doubled, to 5,871.
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