The Home Affairs Select Committee calls for minimum age limits to be imposed on shotgun certificates and wants tighter controls over gun owners with criminal records.
Their report details how 26 children aged just ten are holders of shotgun licences - and the current law means they can be given to children even younger.
The report found that as of September 7, 2010, a total of 4,899 children under the age of 18 in England and Wales had been issued with either a shotgun certificate or a firearms certificate – mostly used for rifles.
These figures do not include low-powered air rifles or air pistols, which are subject to separate restrictions.
Whew! Can't believe this but as I look unto the report and the statistics, indeed children even at the age of ten can have a real gun. Yes! the real one not the toy gun. This is shocking as well as frustrating for at this early age, these kids are not all capable of deciding what they will shoot or who they will shoot(with proper discernment) for this kids will often act on impulse but seldom with reason.
I remember my brothers who often play with their toy guns, robots and cars when they are still kids. They always got angry and fought with each other while they are playing. Afterwards I would see them throwing their toys with each other. What if the guns that they are playing are real guns? Would they kill each other if burst of anger happens to penetrate their emotions while playing? I guess if this happened I would be looking at their tombs nowadays or still in the hospital facing people in white lab coats who are treating them. This is easy to imagine but hard to accept that in this very permissive society violence is within the reach of our children hands.Hands that are innocent and yet hands that are licensed to kill.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340043/The-Home-Affairs-Select-Committee-calls-minimum-age-limits-imposed-shotgun-certificates.html#ixzz18dejQbXF
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