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Originally Posted by Osem
...I'm surprised you appear to be more disturbed about a tiny number of children having supervised access to guns than the fact that knives kill/injure far more people and are carried/used far more routinely.....
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It isn't (or needn''t be) an "either/or" situation. Weapons that can kill or maim should be restricted, particularly where children are involved.
I can see the point of allowing children in rural South Africa or the USA learning how to use a gun for hunting at an early age; but in Britain? It seems a bit bizarre that the police don't (mostly) carry guns, but a 10 year old is legally allowed to.