In the UK why would you need a gun?
A man who killed 16-year-old Christina Edkins on a rush-hour bus in Birmingham has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
Phillip Simelane, from Walsall, stabbed the teenager in a random attack as she made her way to school in March.
He had been released from prison, unsupervised, three months before the attack – despite warning signs over the state of his mental health.
The 23-year-old admitted manslaughter in a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court.
So much wrong here. People can’t even carry knives in England….but that doesn’t stop insane murderers from carrying them any more than the murder laws stop them from killing innocent girls. Of course its illegal to SHOOT insane lunatics when they attack innocent girls too. That helps keep England’s “Gun Death” rate VERY low.
And then there’s the “Justice System” that lets what appears to be a standard-issue career criminal free with no supervision. Also if the cops will protect you, where were they for Christina Edkins?
Just a pile of examples of a failed system. This is the system the “Gun Death” fanatics want for all of us!
Note also that he plead guilty to ‘manslaughter’, so…no ‘murder’ statistic there to make England look bad…paging Piers Morgan…
Yep, and I wonder how many ‘other’ cases we’re not even hearing about???
Given that this was a case of 1st Degree Murder with a big bow on it…and he plead Manslaughter. Also England doesn’t count ANY wrongful death in any meaningful way until there is a convicted perp.
England has gangs just like America, and in America gangland murders go unsolved at around 70% because even when somebody is shot or stabbed on a crowded street strangely nobody seems to have seen ANYTHING.
This is the REAL reason, as Phssthpok wisely notes, that England has such a low “Murder” rate.