UK: 3 dead 3 wounded in knife and van terror attack

[philip964]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/liv ... st-updates

Breaking. In Nottingham, yeah I guess near Sherwood Forrest.

RIP.

Man under arrest. No other information on him yet.

[Chemist45]

So.....
Criminals can commit murder and mayhem with knives and automobiles?
They can kill without guns?
But, Bloomberg tells me that once we ban guns all crime will stop.
Could he be wrong?

[Noggin]

So.....
Criminals can commit murder and mayhem with knives and automobiles?
They can kill without guns?
But, Bloomberg tells me that once we ban guns all crime will stop.
Could he be wrong?

Who says the criminals in UK don't have access to guns. Of course the ony police officers authorized to be armed nowadays are specialist Tactical armed response units.

That is why why this happens:

John Speed PS 39 West Yorkshire Police 31 October 1984 Shot while going to aid of a colleague who had been fired on near Leeds Parish Church

Matt Ratana Sgt 54 Metropolitan Police 25 September 2020 Shot while a man was being detained in a police custody centre

Jim Porter DC 31 Durham Constabulary 4 March 1982 Shot in pursuit of armed robbers.

Francis Mason PC 27 Hertfordshire Constabulary 14 April 1988 Shot while off-duty, attempting to prevent an armed robbery. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal

Nicola Hughes PC 23 Greater Manchester Police 18 September 2012 Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Fiona Bone

Fiona Bone PC 32 Greater Manchester Police 18 September 2012 Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Nicola Hughes

David Ian Haigh PC 25 North Yorkshire Police 17 June 1982 Shot

Richard Gray PC 43 [ 6 May 2007 Shot

Glenn Goodman SPC 37 North Yorkshire Police 7 June 1992 Shot by IRA member Patrick Magee during routine traffic stop

Yvonne Fletcher WPC 25 Metropolitan Police 17 April 1984 Shot

Patrick Dunne PC 44 Metropolitan Police 20 October 1993 Fatally shot while attending domestic dispute

Ian Dibell GM PC 41 Essex Police 9 July 2012 Shot while off duty and confronting an armed man

Raymond Codling Insp 49 Greater Manchester Police 14 September 1989 Shot

Gavin Carlton PC 29 West Midlands Police 19 December 1988 Shot while attempting to arrest armed bank robbers

Laurence Brown PC 27 Metropolitan Police 28/08/90 Shot

Roger Brereton PC 41 Thames Valley Police 19/08/87 Shot in the Hungerford massacre

Brian Bishop A/Sgt37 Essex Police 27 August 1984 Shot

Sharon BeshenivskyPC38 West Yorkshire Police 18 November 2005Shot while responding to an armed robbery


I did not bother to add to the list the officers killed by stabbing or being hit by vehicles.

[philip964]

“He has yet to be identified, but is a 31-year-old migrant from West Africa with no known criminal record, according to The Times of London.”