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Mon 05 May 2010Rate of Irish gun killings five times that of England - study
THE RATE of gun killings in the Republic has been up to five times higher than in England and Wales in recent years, despite being virtually identical only a decade earlier, academic research has found.
The study by Dr Liz Campbell of Aberdeen University concludes that the Government’s emphasis on tougher laws and longer sentences for those involved in gun crime is misguided and ineffective.
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