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I feel something needs to be done to reduce crime and protect the many vulnerable people in this country. The fact is that neither the UK government nor the police have the resources to offer full time protection to every citizen. I therefore feel that the UK public should now be trusted and given back the right to self-defence. I'm asking the government to grant to law-abiding citizens the right to self-defence, and defence of our property, by repealing the UK handgun ban and allowing us to carry concealed handguns. The problem with banning weapons is that criminals don't obey laws, so when guns were banned criminals ignored the law and kept their weapons, and decent law abiding people were left defenceless, as is the case now. This is simply because guns, in the right hands, are a serious deterrent against acts of violence. An example of this is the US state of Vermont, which has virtually no laws against gun ownership, and a crime rate which is a fraction of that in Britain. The simple fact is that by disarming honest citizens, Britain has actually helped criminals, who now go about their business without fear.

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Graham Showell, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• david wightman
• Mary Gradwick
• Stephen Gradwick
• Andrea J Chee
• Bruce Wright
• Michael O'Flaherty
• Jonathan Huddlestone
• Dan Benson
• tim sargent
• Terri Phillips
• John Pate
• Zoe Broome
• Charles H Mousseau Jr
• Andrew Myers
• Christopher Sherlock
• Daniel Bargent
• James K Lloyd
• William Keeble
• Robbie Vivian
• Robert Williams
• Rob Farrington
• Gary Davies
• dean rubery
• AJ Hodgkiss
• Cosmin Maris
• Christopher Philip Smith
• Anthony Kinchin
• wesley
• Ziggy Encaoua
• Robert Worsnop
• Councillor Gavin Webb
• Robert Twiss
• Elaine Sanders
• andrew gomm
• John Bartholomew
• John Lea
• David Gibson
• Barry Guy Pollard
• P Orme
• David Woodbridge
• Nathan Pattison
• Lawrence Hendry
• Anna Sinclair
• D. Oram
• J Adam
• Lewis Harrison
• I. Clempson
• Matthew Lee
• Dale Tunbridge
• Grant Shepherd
• Daniel Burdett
• John Cudmore
• tonyblair
• Samuel Jennings
• Ioannis Anastasopoulos
• Simon Smith
• Jimmy Lee Shreeve
• Will Calcutt
• Marcus Elliot
• David Fulton
• william taylor
• paul fisher
• Matthew Huddlestone
• Adam George
• Matthew Clarke
• Andrew Spencer
• Alex Wright
• Jack Harvey
• Vijay Chopra
• Max Harding
• Brendan Lally
• Jake McMahon
• mark wilson
• mark harris
• Mark Richardson
• Stuart Andrews- ministers should see how Concealed Carry has reduced crime by up to 80 %
• Jeffrey Fay
• Robert Dammers
• B Green
• Matt Manfredi
• Luke de Alberdi
• w r titterton
• robert.ramsden
• mark walsh
• Michael N. Kelly
• CE Shepherd
• Barry Woodward
• james porter
• paul mercer
• Adam Brookes
• Robert Coleman
• Christopher Chapman
• jason mark panes
• Matthew Powell
• Ruby Wadwa
• Neil collins
• Richard Hemingway
• Gwyn Jones
• Peter Risdon
• Neil Burrows
• john newman
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• Gabriel Boghossian
• carl mitchell
• Ryan charlon
• wayne marriott
• Dr Nicholas V Ashley
• Shane Kiely
• Mark Risdon
• David B WIldgoose
• Sean Magee
• Matthew Jackson
• Jack B Montgomery
• Lisa - Jane Harvey
• Jonathan Pashley
• John Pate
• Raymond Monk
• Stuart K Jarman
• John Daragon
• Nick May
• Michael Holmes
• Gordon Holbrook
• Mark Turner
• Timothy Pelham
• Philip Tilden
• Andreas Heinrichs
• Lee Taylor
• scott harris
• Spencer Day
• Jeffrey R McLaird
• Nicholas Trout
• Mark
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• Karl Winslade
• Kylia Price
• Will Howlett
• George H
• Matthew Culling
• paul grannon
• Alistair Gunn
• James Davidson
• michael Gaffney
• M. Knight
• richard healey
• Dominyk Tiller
• D.Zakarya
• Callum Wood
• Tony Pickett
• Michael Gordon
• James Anthony Cartwright
• Simon Dugard
• Mark Brown
• George Hayes
• Louis Fox
• Chris Hall
• Lauren Tilbury
• Alex Roberts
• phillip stace
• Shaun Palmer
• Alex Blainey
• Brian Usher
• KIERAN TURNER
• Scott Strachan
• Harvey Allen
• paul wallace
• graham ellison
• Gary Ward
• Keith Barrett
• Raymond Tillyer
• Adrian Brown
• Andrew Cheetham
• simon ellett
• Darren Pile
• Tom Canning, All gun control laws do is punish the law abiding gun owner.
• J smith
• Martin J Claxton
• Spencer Hayward
• Matthew Mckeown
• adam jackman
• Chris Instone
• Keith Oakes
• R Goodsell
• Charlie Kinnear
• Andrew Tate
• Ben Hayes
• Joseph Stanley
• Neil Hawkins
• daniel patton
• alex hunter
• C McElhinney
• Harry Simpson
• Derek Bernard
• James Hunt
• Derek Brook
• Martyn Pugh
• thomas simpson
• It didn't stop American cities becoming war zones
• michael grimes
• James Richardson
• Brian Milner
• Malky Christie
• Barry Walker
• This is a ridiculous petition!
• Paulius Gedrimas
• Christopher E, Lyttle
• Calum Turner
• Perry Roper
• David Davidson
• Michael Bowditch
• Ashley Buckingham
• Jed Jone
• Alex Sheppard
• Brian Lawler
• Michael Ellis
• Matthew Ruttley
• Jordan Price
• Matthew Wensley
• Simon Adames
• Oliver Collings
• toby weston
• William Southerton
• Harry Barron
• Peter J Williams
• Daniel Watkins
• Harvey Ahern
• D,B,Purdy
• Chase Webb (petitions.number10.gov.uk/application/)
• K W Timothy Tsang
• Scott Chapman
• John Rutley
• aa
• Chris Howard
• Stuart Smith
• Scott Stevenson
• Mark Samuel Wright
• Robert Davenport
• K Seunarine
• Nathaniel Bates
• Lance Dale
• Mr. Lee Thorogood
• John Walker
• Paul Bradley
• S Meredith
• Joe Bogan
• Curt Lynxus
• steven penny
• Thomas Barnes
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• Paul Finch
• David Jones - BPP
• Marc Bleby
• jonathan snape
• Alexander Willmott
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• Mark Seward
• Chris Timney
• Steven Chanyi
• Alexander Blackman