Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.
As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.
If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
We know that the crime committed by people with guns by criminals, they get the guns by flouting the law to begin with. They don't go to gun shows.
Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.
The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.
I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.
For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.
