fallacy argument
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It's a case of stating the FACTS why handguns were banned in 1997, like it or lump it tbh!
Ohhh and as suspected that 2 million figure was plucked out the air
No. You made an appeal to emotion when you said; "So in short, your hobby is more important than human life?"
I said "millions". The 2 million comment was about the number of legally registered firearms. Which is backed up by the stats from gunpolicy.org, you should have a look at it. But when you add Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK together, yes, millions of owners, with millions of legally held firearms between them. And we should include those that never got the chance to own them because of stupid legislation after Dunblane.
If you want some facts though....
There have been three massacres on the UK mainland. That's Hungerford, Dunblane and Cumbria in 2010. Alternatively there have been 10 in Northern Ireland. Three of which was British forces opening fire. The Miami show band massacre was a fourth massacre that was committed by the UVF but 5 off-duty British soldiers were also involved (And let's not forget to mention the massacres by British forces that occurred in Ireland when it was completely under British rule. Croke Park being the main one before independence).
If I was to say that because British soldiers were involved in more massacres on British soil than loner gunmen and we should ban the British army and police services, that would be a fallacy. You cannot hold the entire British army to account for the actions of a few. In the same way you cannot hold all legitimate firearms holders to account for the actions of three people. Three.
Number of Privately Owned Firearms
The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United Kingdom is 4,060,000
Number of Licensed Firearm Owners
The number of licensed gun owners in the United Kingdom is reported to be 861,958
Number of Registered Firearms
The number of registered guns in the United Kingdom is reported to be 2,158,572
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_Kingdom