Gun Crime In London Soars 42 Percent

By Tom Knighton

Some folks in the UK love to lecture Americans on guns. Now, many of us don’t actually care what they have to say. The British tried to enforce gun control on American shores once before, and they got shot at Lexington and Concord for their troubles. They don’t get a say in our local governance these days.

Frankly, based on the soaring crime problem in London, they need to focus more on their own troubles.

You see, we already noted on Monday that London was now more dangerous than New York, but now we have hard numbers on just how bad it’s gotten.

Gun crime offences in London surged by 42% in the last year, according to official statistics.

The Met Police’s figures showed there were 2,544 gun crime offences from April 2016 to April 2017 compared to 1,793 offences from 2015 until 2016.

Knife crime also increased by 24% with 12,074 recorded offences from 2016 to 2017.

The Met said although crime rates were rising they remained at a much lower level than five years ago.

Scotland Yard registered annual rises across a number of serious offence categories in the past 12 months, following several years of falls.

The total number of offences …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms