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| UK Gun Destruction |
Lucy Cope of Mothers Against Guns at the UK Gun Destruction Event |
Domestic gun campaigners from the Gun Control Network and Mothers Against Guns have joined forces with international arms campaigners from IANSA, Amnesty International and Oxfam in calling for an International Arms Trade Treaty to help control the unregulated trade in arms which claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
Mick North, whose daughter was one of 16 children killed along with their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in 1996, joined other mothers and fathers who have lost their children to gun violence. |
Mick is a member of the Gun Control Network:
"If parents like me who have lost children to armed violence can face the gun problem head on, why can't the government? As the second biggest arms supplier in the world Britain has a responsibility to tighten its arms laws."
A ten-tonne steamroller was used in east London to destroy hundreds of replica guns.
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Members of the Gun Control Network who have lost children to gun violence |
Steve Walker, a retired policeman whose son was killed with an imported Uzi machine gun, said:
"An international Arms Trade Treaty would ensure all governments have strict standards and all arms exports are properly regulated. If the British governments refuse to push for tough controls, they shouldn't be surprised when guns end up on British streets taking British lives. Tough arms controls would help make all of us safer." |
Other gun destruction events were organised in Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds. |
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