[Livia]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

there will always be ways to get guns or even make them!
people can turn a replica gun into a killing machine,
to lock some up for ever for carrying a gun when someone can torture, rape and kill a child and still get released is a silly idea in my opinion!
we need the whole of the justice system changed so that the punishment meets the crime!
if you set out to take another persons life then i think you should lose the right for yourself to live.

All you need to turn a replica gun into a firearm is a firing pin and a drill. I know that. Just because it's easy to do it shouldn't be accepted that it will be done.

I agree that the justice system is not hard enough to rapist and killers, sadly the woolly-thinkers start to worry about the rights of the criminal rather than the rights of the victim almost as soon as a crime's taken place... but really that's nt the issue here.

I think a zero tolerance with firearms that was actually carried out would be an effective deterrent against gun crime. Like I said before, you cannot legally own a handgun in the UK, so if you're not a copper or a soldier, there is only one reason you would have a handgun and that is to commit a crime. Bang 'em up, and you'd only have to do it to half a dozen to prove you were serious and gun crime would inevitably drop.