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FunkyLeprechaun

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7. Derrick Bird

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:24 AM

Dec 2012

Legally owned his shotgun, I had also heard that he had a rifle as well, that was also legally owned. He shot dead his brother and his lawyer first. Reloaded. Then a co-worker at a taxi rank. He then drove around shooting people at random. Other than Seascale (3 victims there), he shot dead two people at each location with his double-barreled shotgun and after shooting people he drove off and reloaded and did the same thing again until he drove to Boot and killed himself.

If Bird had something like the AR-15 the death toll would be higher. After the shooting, the UK imposed tighter restrictions on owning legal guns.

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Connecticut Shootings: The Lessons From Dunblane, Scotland - Where 16 Children Were Massacred In '96 [View all] Turborama Dec 2012 OP

Piers Morgan cites Dunblane as he lashes out at US gun control failure after Connecticut massacre Turborama Dec 2012 #1

and gun crime continued rising in the uk, reaching a high circa 2005, when it began to drop. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #2

or you can cover your ears RetroLounge Dec 2012 #3

i hear you perfectly well. yes, the uk tightened gun laws after the dunblane shooting. But it HiPointDem Dec 2012 #5

Terrific, cite one case from 2005 and then another arthritisR_US Dec 2012 #15

that's true. but uk had way lower rates of mass shootings than the us even before they HiPointDem Dec 2012 #16

Just because you can't prevent something 100% arthritisR_US Dec 2012 #17

How can you hear anything? RetroLounge Dec 2012 #18

Yes, I just saw this Tweet on the obama diary.. Cha Dec 2012 #4

but there *was* another mass shooting...2010 HiPointDem Dec 2012 #6

Derrick Bird FunkyLeprechaun Dec 2012 #7

the fact remains: at the time he did the shooting, the uk had among the tightest laws in the HiPointDem Dec 2012 #8

Where there are more guns there is more homicide Turborama Dec 2012 #9

read the fine print: HiPointDem Dec 2012 #10

Faulty analysis Turborama Dec 2012 #11

fact -- depending on how you select the data you analyse. if we compare the us & costa rica, HiPointDem Dec 2012 #12

Fact - You haven't provided one citation Turborama Dec 2012 #13

fact: i've provided lots of citations in other posts, like this one: HiPointDem Dec 2012 #14