Just in case you thought it was just our government ....

[unixronin]

....nope, it isn't.  The UK government are a bunch of rotten, crooked liars too.

The [UK] government was accused yesterday of covering up the full extent of the gun crime epidemic sweeping Britain, after official figures showed that gun-related killings and injuries had risen more than fourfold since 1998.

The [actual] Home Office figures - which exclude crimes involving air weapons - show the number of deaths and injuries caused by gun attacks in England and Wales soared from 864 in 1998-99 to 3,821 in 2005-06.  That means that more than 10 people are injured or killed in a gun attack every day.

Meanwhile, the British Home Secretary has been claiming all along that violent crime was falling.  For the last year alone, the statistics released by the Home Office in July purported to show a 13% decrease in criminal shootings, while in actual fact firearm homicides increased by 18%.