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新聞分享 -- 英國槍枝法令檢驗 [AP]
首相布萊爾計劃全面檢驗英國的槍枝法令
當本月三個青少年在倫敦被槍殺的事件發生之後，英國首相提出了關於青少年的槍枝和幫派問題。
『我們必須去分析到底發生了什麼事，這是一個英國社會和年輕人的普遍存在的問題嗎？我不這麼認為』. 布萊爾說。
雖然去年英國的槍枝犯罪率是降低的，布萊爾也認為問題不是來自年輕人。『這是一個獨特的問題，在一個獨特且夾雜著槍械和幫派的犯罪文化裡。』
在英美兩國，擁有槍枝是公民合法的權利。但這樣的權利漸漸地因為越來越多的槍枝犯罪而讓社會大眾開始思考是否該更嚴格的規範這項權利。
我的問題則是：
當一個國家擁有槍枝的人越來越多時,人們是否會開始擔心社會治安問題?
當槍枝犯罪率越來越高時, 政府是否應開始正視槍枝氾濫的問題?
當每個人都有槍可以自衛時,是否困惑於某些問題像是：武器是最好的防衛嗎？
Blair plans to overhaul U.K.’s gun laws Sun Feb 18, 7:10 AM ET
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans Sunday to overhaul gun laws after three teenage boys were shot dead in south London this month, prompting a national debate about guns and gangs among youths.
The age at which the mandatory five-year sentence for carrying a gun can be imposed should be reduced to 17 from 21, Blair said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television. Blair ordered the gun law review to help police deal with Britain’s inner-city gang culture.
Blair said he was also considering other proposals put forward by the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police including giving police new powers to monitor the homes of people suspected of possessing and using firearms.
He acknowledged there was a problem, but said gun crime — and violent crime in general — decreased in London in the past year.
"We have got to analyze what is going wrong here. Is it a general state of British society, British young people? And I think it isn’t," Blair said.
"It is about a specific problem within a specific criminal culture to do with guns and gangs," he said.
Gun crime in London fell 14 percent last year, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told reporters after an emergency meeting with commanders Thursday, but added that he was worried by an emerging trend which has seen boys with guns involved in killings and other serious violent crime.
Possession of handguns was largely outlawed in 1998, in reaction to the massacre two years earlier of 16 kindergarten pupils and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, by a man armed with four legally owned handguns.
In England and Wales, the total of 46 homicides involving firearms in 2005-2006 was the lowest since the late 1980s.
原文引用：http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_eu/britain_gun_violence_1
衍伸閱讀Do gun laws make us safer? https://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/1999/Oct7/opinion.html
當本月三個青少年在倫敦被槍殺的事件發生之後，英國首相提出了關於青少年的槍枝和幫派問題。
『我們必須去分析到底發生了什麼事，這是一個英國社會和年輕人的普遍存在的問題嗎？我不這麼認為』. 布萊爾說。
雖然去年英國的槍枝犯罪率是降低的，布萊爾也認為問題不是來自年輕人。『這是一個獨特的問題，在一個獨特且夾雜著槍械和幫派的犯罪文化裡。』
在英美兩國，擁有槍枝是公民合法的權利。但這樣的權利漸漸地因為越來越多的槍枝犯罪而讓社會大眾開始思考是否該更嚴格的規範這項權利。
我的問題則是：
當一個國家擁有槍枝的人越來越多時,人們是否會開始擔心社會治安問題?
當槍枝犯罪率越來越高時, 政府是否應開始正視槍枝氾濫的問題?
當每個人都有槍可以自衛時,是否困惑於某些問題像是：武器是最好的防衛嗎？
Blair plans to overhaul U.K.’s gun laws Sun Feb 18, 7:10 AM ET
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans Sunday to overhaul gun laws after three teenage boys were shot dead in south London this month, prompting a national debate about guns and gangs among youths.
The age at which the mandatory five-year sentence for carrying a gun can be imposed should be reduced to 17 from 21, Blair said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television. Blair ordered the gun law review to help police deal with Britain’s inner-city gang culture.
Blair said he was also considering other proposals put forward by the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police including giving police new powers to monitor the homes of people suspected of possessing and using firearms.
He acknowledged there was a problem, but said gun crime — and violent crime in general — decreased in London in the past year.
"We have got to analyze what is going wrong here. Is it a general state of British society, British young people? And I think it isn’t," Blair said.
"It is about a specific problem within a specific criminal culture to do with guns and gangs," he said.
Gun crime in London fell 14 percent last year, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told reporters after an emergency meeting with commanders Thursday, but added that he was worried by an emerging trend which has seen boys with guns involved in killings and other serious violent crime.
Possession of handguns was largely outlawed in 1998, in reaction to the massacre two years earlier of 16 kindergarten pupils and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, by a man armed with four legally owned handguns.
In England and Wales, the total of 46 homicides involving firearms in 2005-2006 was the lowest since the late 1980s.
原文引用：http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_eu/britain_gun_violence_1
衍伸閱讀Do gun laws make us safer? https://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/1999/Oct7/opinion.html
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