Monday night January 14, 2013 Piers Morgan was on The Colbert Report and said (paraphrasing some of his quotes) ""there are no guns in England, the police don't have guns and there are no guns and we have 35-40 gun murders every year""
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422859/january-14-2013/piers-morgan
So what are the facts?? Well first of all ""the police dont carry guns"" struck me as false when after the 7/7/05 bombings in London police famously shot a Brazilian man in the subway who they believed was a terrorist.
U.K. Police Shoot Man Dead at London Subway Station (Update5)
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ayUaKAcZlbsA&refer=top_world_news
quote from the article--->> ""Most British police officers on daily patrols aren't armed. Only specially trained officers carry firearms.""
Also some numbers on general guns in UK from
www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-kingdom
Number of Privately Owned Firearms
The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United Kingdom is 4,060,000
In the United Kingdom, annual deaths resulting from firearms total
2009: 13812
United States
2009: 31,347
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