Gunman dies after police stand-off (UK)

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A gunman died today after apparently shooting himself in the head following a 16-hour stand-off with police.

Paramedics spent more than three hours trying to save the man after at least one shot was fired on Leagrave Common, in Luton.

Eyewitnesses said the man was holding a sawn-off shotgun to his chin before the blast rang out shortly before midday.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gunman-dies-after-police-standoff-2192830.html

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I thought that the British citizens were unarmed, so this could not have possibly happened.

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I thought that the British citizens were unarmed, so this could not have possibly happened.

Rumors of the gunless utopia have been greatly exaggerated.

[Danno 1,228]

<<<Paramedics spent more than three hours trying to save the man after at least one shot was fired on Leagrave Common, in Luton.

Eyewitnesses said the man was holding a sawn-off shotgun to his chin before the blast rang out shortly before midday.

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I don't know.

If I held a shot gun to my chin... and it went off, not sure I would want to be "saved" by the paramedics.

[slim 1,530]

Just another example of senseless gun violence in the UK. Perhaps a few gun laws would help avert this type of tragedy from happening again?

[Ban Hammer 13,403]

Just another example of senseless gun violence in the UK. Perhaps a few gun laws would help avert this type of tragedy from happening again?

and 1 round clips too!

[slim 1,530]

and 1 round clips too!

Without those there would be no shootings.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Just another example of senseless gun violence in the UK. Perhaps a few gun laws would help avert this type of tragedy from happening again?

Just because you call an aberration the norm doesn't mean that it is.

[slim 1,530]

Just because you call an aberration the norm doesn't mean that it is.

Just because 15,500 people get shot every year in the US doesn't mean we have a violent or "unsafe" society. - Yet that seems to be a commonly held belief around here.

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Just because you call an aberration the norm doesn't mean that it is.

Oh?

[luckytxn 2,264]

How does he even have a gun since they have laws making them illegal? Oh wait that is law abiding citizens that are outlawed from owning guns, never mind.

[slim 1,530]

It probably was legal for him to have the shotgun. Sawed off? No. But, that's easy enough to overcome with legal-to-own saws and stuff.

Perhaps now they'll make saws harder to own?

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Just because 15,500 people get shot every year in the US doesn't mean we have a violent or "unsafe" society. - Yet that seems to be a commonly held belief around here.

Your "factoid" needs to be sterilized as it apparently came out of your a$$. 15,500 is roughly the number of murders annually and roughly 66% are gun related, but gun shot wound victims average two or three times that number annually and victims of major violent crimes Involving guns number In the hundreds of thousands.

[trillium13 84]

Perhaps now they'll make saws harder to own?

Seems like the only sane solution to me.

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Seems like the only sane solution to me.

Banning saws?