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| 4,000 shot in Britain in a year | |
| 2005-01-16 | |
FOUR THOUSAND people have suffered shooting injuries in a single year as gun crime continues to rise across Britain. Figures released by the Home Office show that 81 people were shot dead and more than 500 were seriously wounded between April 2002 and March 2003... Experts say the number of people admitted to hospital with gunshot injuries is much higher than those released by the government because many hospitals do not record the treatment of gunshot wounds, or the method of collecting data differs between hospitals.
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| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 lol! You almost wonder if there is some sort of law that they aren't allowed to just write "GSW" so it can be easily tracked. Hey Doc..you have to be more descriptive like... brain matter pushed through skull opening. Wouldn't want those gun nuts to get any "cannon fodder". |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-16 7:57:29 PM |
| #6 small metallic object lodged in chest. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-01-16 7:52:08 PM |
| #5 many hospitals do not record the treatment of gunshot wounds WTH? What do they list as the admitting diagnosis: open wound created by small foreign object traveling at a high velocity??? |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-16 7:49:40 PM |
| #4 An armed society is a civil society. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-01-16 7:35:20 PM |
| #3 FOUR THOUSAND people have suffered shooting injuries in a single year as gun crime continues to rise across Britain. But, but, how can this be?? Guns are illegal in the UK!! ILLEGAL!!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-16 2:45:09 PM |
| #2 At least no criminals have been shot. That Tony Martin incident was shameful. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-01-16 1:19:30 PM |
| #1 For good control,use both hands.Them anti-gun laws sure do work well. |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-01-16 1:02:26 PM |