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June 07, 2002
Friday
 
 
News from gun-free Britain: "Doctors to be taught battlefield surgery in inner-city hospitals as gun crime rises"
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Self defence & security • UK affairs

That's the headline. The story, in the Independent of yesterday (Thursday June 6), continues:

Medical staff at two London hospitals will be taught the emergency techniques on an intensive course that until now has been used to prepare military surgeons for frontline treatment of troops in the Balkans and Afghanistan.

The conclusion they'll draw is that gun-control (in fact weapons control generally - the courses also include stab wounds) isn't tight enough, and the law-abiding civilian tendency will have to surrender even more of their weapons, such as, I don't know, their Sunday carving knives.

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