Terrorism in London

Firearms have never been easy to obtain in the UK, the ownership of them has always been restricted. When the laws were tighten in the early 1990, people were happy. We as a nation have never liked Firearms and we don't have any really form of cultural history with them.

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Well... I'm not sure I agree. As a result of those terror attacks, it's now pretty much the case that, if you're a resident of a major UK city, you probably spend about 60-70% of your waking life in view of a government or corporate-run security camera.

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For legal reasons I can't really get into I can't actually say too much about this matter. However I can say that the introduction of cameras has very little to do with terrorist, it's to do with community policing and anti-social behaviour. In addition, the govt actually owns very little to zero cameras. The cameras are all operated by local authorities who allowthe police and other agencies to have access to footage.

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Hold on a minute - I don't know how it was sold to you guys but here in the UK, it was clearly the WMDs. The human rights stuff was tacked on months later.

I think that whatever our take on the issue, our first reaction was not to think "Ohh..I can make money out of this.."But then we are not neo-con shitheads.
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Before we get too far down this sideroad, our american chums will just have to accept that for various historical reasons and for more recent events - us brits have never had a love affair with the gun (I think it's because we lack a "west"). We don't like them, we don't want them*. Expect for a very small group of people such as farmers and target-shooters, a vote to totally outlaw the use of firearms would have no problem at all passing.* There is an argument about freedom that can be made but we as a society have decided it's not want we want to have.