Street gun violence is very rare in Switzerland, says Emma Jane Kirby, who recently investigated the subject for BBC News.
New York City was awash in heroin, street crime and gun violence.
There is no point taking the gun out of your home in Switzerland because it is illegal to carry a gun in the street.
As they escaped they used the gun in the street to threaten other men who were returning to the house, occupied by six students.
And last week the government said it no longer recognised the ceasefire of the UDA because of police evidence it had been involved in recent pipe bomb and gun attacks and street violence in north Belfast.
Rather, those weapons are bought at gun shows, on street corners, over the Internet or from friends or neighbors, Nichols said.
These sheriffs of Wall Street carve a notch on their gun barrels for the likes of Martha Stewart, Raj Rajaratnam, and their ilk.
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He had fled from officers into a dead-end street, where police found him apparently with a gun-shot wound in the head.
While polling shows that a majority of the public favors stricter gun laws, surveys by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News suggest that the support peaked in February, two months after the Newtown shootings, and has since tapered, with 55% in an April survey favoring stricter laws and 43% saying laws should be less strict or remain as they are.
McClenaghan, 49, of Broad Street, Magherafelt, used an antique double-barrelled gun to shoot the mother-of-four dead in the Portstewart launderette where she worked in March 2011.
The challenge is making this an everybody movement, so your main icons are Joe Six-Pack Joe the Plumber becoming Joe the Solar Guy, or that kid on the street corner putting down his handgun, picking up a caulk gun.
And then the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart took a semi-automatic gun (the Bushmaster M4A3) off its website.
With sufficient cash, criminals, who tend not to obey high-minded anti-gun laws, can buy weapons like these on the street in almost any large city.
He then travelled to Nottingham where he unsuccessfully targeted Santander bank in Clumber Street, on 29 May 2012, by pretending to hide a gun in his pocket.
Police are carrying out extra street patrols and reviewing CCTV footage after a student was hit with a gun during a burglary in Surrey.
Mr Obama also said rural gun owners and city dwellers whose only experience with firearms was through street crime needed to come to a mutual understanding.
Mark Rosenberg, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's injury-prevention center, said in The Wall Street Journal late last year that the agency stopped most of its research on gun violence after 1996, following a successful lobbying campaign by gun-rights groups.
"Gun policing in New York got much more effective as every kind of street policing got more effective, " he said.
The latest batch started on April 27th, when a drunk (or drugged) police-station chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket, killing three people and injuring another seven with a gun that had been listed as missing for nine years.
The force said the boys parked before producing the gun and firing shots at a group of people, then riding off towards Hardy Street.
Street violence has gone up in recent years in Switzerland but there hasn't been an increase in gun-related incidents.
Our plan would give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime by making gun trafficking a Federal crime with serious penalties, helping communities put 15, 000 cops on the street, and taking other common-sense steps.
So while the number of people seriously injured in gun-related violent incidents has actually gone up almost 50 percent in the past decade, you are more likely to survive a gun shot today than would have been the case even a few years ago, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
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