Hi ,guys have yous seen TEENAGER SHOT DEAD HIS 12-YEAR-OLD SISTER WITH THEIR MOTHER'S ILLEGAL GUN?
In Britain people can buy gun easily like US ? there`re any gun shops around there?
I`m wondering how his mom gained a gun...
2007-10-31 08:47:16 · 9 answers · asked by k0815 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
It wasn't his mothers gun, she had been coerced into looking after it by her boyfriend (a fact accepted by the prosecution, police and judge). The boyfriend could have got the gun any number of ways, with the Eastern Bloc (Yugoslavian civil war) now entering into Europe and with untold weaponry escaping the conflicts in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is a sad fact of life that no matter how far away the conflict, it always effects us in the end.
2007-10-31 22:51:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, unlike the US we in England aren't keen on people running around with guns all over the place.
Unfortunately, like all other places in the world some people think laws don't apply to them and with enough money you can buy what you want, legal or not, including drugs and guns.
I just think of the double standards of the mother of these two youngsters. She ignored the law that says she shouldn't have a gun, then expected her son to repsect her instructions not to touch the gun she foolishly told him about. Her daughter paid with her life for this gross foolishness, and both mother and son have been sentenced to a measly five years' imprisonment between them for it.
And I thought life was cheap in other countries...
2007-10-31 15:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by MarkEverest 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't that happen a few weeks ago. If it's the same case the mother buried the gun in the garden and told the son where to find it. Don't know where she got the gun from.
2007-10-31 15:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by angel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother was looking after the gun for some low-life.
She got 3 years.
Stupid son started playing with it and accidentally shot sister dead.
He got 2 years.
Both of them have to live with their stupidity.
2007-10-31 18:29:45 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Sceptic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Guns in the UK are available if you really wanted to buy one. I would suggest though that it is far easier to get hold of a firearm in the USA.
The lad in question got 2 years.
2007-11-01 15:04:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this case is a good example why the illegal trade in guns must be stamped on - before we get like the USA
2007-10-31 19:08:55 · answer #6 · answered by The Grima Queen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's not exactly difficult to buy guns...it's like drugs; if you know who to go to, it's easy, even if they are illegal.
They're not going to go away, so surely we should be focusing on the reasons that kids are killing each other, and killing your own sister....that's a bit extreme, i mean, what would drive someone to that? i know society over here's in rather a mess, but still....
2007-10-31 15:53:49 · answer #7 · answered by Kit Fang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
confused if ur frm england or US. Its was all ova our papers 2 months ago. It was an accident, guns can b bought easily bt only if ppl no where 2 get dem frm.
2007-10-31 15:51:52 · answer #8 · answered by Nansy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Great question.
I could tell you, but the answer will probably be removed.
2007-10-31 15:52:32 · answer #9 · answered by Bum Gravy. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋