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Does the u.k have a problem with school shootings like we have here in u.s?

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i dont know if yall have seen it on the news but in u.s there is people that walk into schools and collages and start shooting quite often

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  1. no


  2. No.

    But then we aren't a bunch of nutters who value some words on a document more importantly than human lives.

    US children, 16 times more likely to die by gunshot than someone from Europe. What does that tell you?

  3. No Walmart here.They might want to start making bullets $1,000 each to curb their enthusiasm.

  4. Nothing like on the same scale or frequency as seems to happen in the States, but there have been a number of tragic incidents in British schools, two of which (in Scotland) I remember the reports quite clearly

  5. ha no we don't have that problem here !

  6. No, we don;t have the fascination with the right to have guns on the UK.

    There was a shooting about 10 years ago in Dumblain, but nothing really since then.

  7. it was dunblane, and it was a completely different story - this guy was a 36 yr old loner not a misguided 18 yr old teenager

  8. not really, we just have the odd fight with a knife

  9. I don't know what the definite answer is to the school shootings, but although I agree with possessing a weapon to protect life or property seems to be a must, the more I read here about the safety of guns being outlawed, the more it makes me wish that would happen here in the US.  I know the right to bear arms is part of our constitution, but that was written so long ago merely for protection of family and self before law enforcement was in every part of the US.  I too would like to see a ban on personal handgun ownership.  Maybe then some child may not have access to a family owned gun.  At the same time, if banning guns in America ever went into effect, it would take decades to see a change, IMO, because not everyone would turn theirs in and there are so many illegally possessed guns in the US.

    To those in the UK:  I consider you and your youth fortunate that it is your law.

  10. yes i sure thinkso, some people are so selfish theses days and a bunch of wild nutters.

  11. It is very rare in the UK, that you hear of school shootings. The last horrific school shooting we had, was 'Dunblane School' in Scotland, but that was years ago.

  12. That, my friend is just so scary to contemplate, i don't think i would send my son to school if that was the case here, like it is in the US. Touch wood..........

  13. I'm in  Ireland (not quite UK) and we find it amazing that no matter how often this happens in the US, the underlying problem of ease of access to guns, is not even discussed.

    There is no will to change your "right to bear arms" and until this is addressed we will continue to watch similar scenes from your country.  

    All societies have problems with disillusioned teenagers - your problems are made worse when a guy with a diagnosed psychiatric illness can buy high powered weapons over the counter, no questions asked.

  14. No but we are having a lot of stabbings.   I dont know whats gone wrong with the world.   There have been a lot of teenage suicides also.

  15. YES........

  16. It has happened a couple of times but no where near as many times the US have had.

  17. In a Walmart store in a small US town (albeit in 1996) I was astonished to be invited to buy a raffle ticket in support of a local children's facility, whose 1st prize was an over and under 12 gauge shotgun.

    Says it all really.

    We tend to make it a little harder to get hold of guns, so have less of a problem there, though we are suffering from an over abundance of knives in schools.

  18. This sale of guns in this country is not big enough to have problems of that scale.

  19. no, although in my shool there was a bonfire in the back of a science class, and people do bring knives. to bne honest i do think it is the next step!!!

  20. No, as far as I'm aware, we haven't had a school shooting on the same scale as you seem to have every year or so. However, we do not have the same gun laws a you guys, and that is probably the reason. In England virtually no one has guns unless they live in the country, and they have shotguns or are part of shooting club. I think the easy availability of guns in the us is 95% of the problem.

  21. No, we are not as silly

  22. No.  About ten years ago, there was a massacre in a school in Dunblane.  It was horrific, and the government banned guns.

    So since then, to date, no we have had no more massacres.

  23. h**l no! But then we don't sell guns in supermarkets either ...

  24. Dunblane.  Circa 1997 if memory serves.  A crazed loon walked into a primary school with a couple of handguns and killed about a dozen children.  (Trivia - Andy Murray, the tennis player currently ranked 9th in the world was a child in that school at the time).

    Our response was to ban the ownership of handguns absolutely.  Even our Olympic pistol-shooters have to practise and store their weapons overseas.

    The man at Dunblane was not a pupil or former pupil at the school, and we've had nothing like Columbine or Virginia Tech.  

    Which is not to say that we don't have gun crime.  We do.  In some places the situation is so bad that some police are armed when on routine patrol!!

    But thankfully, we don't have a second amendment to the constitution.  Actually, we don't have a constitution at all.

  25. There have been incidences of puplis stabbing other kids or teachers, but no mass shootings by children. The only time such an incident took place was in Dunblane in Scotland, when an adult nutcase shot up a primary school. I think he had a legitimate licence for his gun.

    Its still hard for kids to get hold of guns, because they are banned, hence no history of campus shootings in the UK.

  26. only if you go to places like london and birmingham. it is quite likely that you will get merked there.

  27. No because our access to guns is not the same as in the US (however, it does seem to be going that way, even though we don't have a right).  Here we have recently had a spate of suicides in teenagers - perhaps that's how we are expressing depression rather than taking a gun and shooting out.

  28. NO!  We have tight gun control. Not every Tom d**k and Nutty can walk into a shop and buy a lethal weapon!

  29. no so much in schools

    but there is a gang culture in which guns and knives are part of everyday life

  30. No, we are a civilised nation.
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