All of Britain’s mass shootings have been perpetrated using licensed, legally owned firearms.
- Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
Recent news reports highlight rising rates of gun crime in two-thirds of England and Wales’s police jurisdictions.
Gun ownership is not the only factor that needs considering to tackle gun crime, an expert says.
Anyone hoping for gun reform should take note of how the aftermath of the UK’s worst shooting played out.
A review of international research shows that police may well be better off without weapons.
The work of one legal thriller writer in particular shines a light on two of today’s most pressing dilemmas.
The 1996 shooting at a Scottish primary school had a lasting impact on UK gun control.
Law lords ruled that a controversial law which has led to hundreds of murder convictions has been misconstrued.
After years struggling to get gun control measures passed, President Obama is taking dramatic new steps. And the American people seem to be on board.
The sad truth is that it’s all too easy to get hold of automatic weapons in Europe.
President Barack Obama has praised gun laws in Australia and the UK. How did they work?
New research suggests mass shootings are not just due to gun ownership, but gun culture.
It has been 10 years since British police shot and killed an innocent man in Stockwell station.
The government faced civil unrest almost as soon as it came to office. Then it decided to cause some disruption of its own.
Two violent incidents, a murder and a home invasion, took place just a few miles apart in North London last week. In both cases, armed police were sent to the scene but to very different ends. At the first…
The Mark Duggan inquest jury has concluded, by an 8-2 majority, that the police shooting which sparked riots across England in 2011 was lawful. But their answers to the particular questions, posed by the…
This week brought news of yet another gun massacre in the United States at Washington Navy Yard. It is the latest in a string of 146 mass shootings, with more than 900 victims since 2006. The tragedy gives…
With an election looming next month, Tony Abbott, Australia’s opposition leader, has become the latest in a line of politicians playing the familiar law and order card. An incoming Coalition government…
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