[jdietrich]

Someone smuggling heroin into the US would expect a sentence of at least 30 years. We happen to think that automatic weapons are at least as dangerous as heroin.

[cm2187]

I think smuggling is a less serious crime than murder.

[vertex-four]

A gun being smuggled into the UK is only going to be used by a criminal (and by criminal, I mean they're committing violent crimes other than ownership of a gun) for killing someone - a gun smuggler, therefore, is providing a killer with a murder weapon with full knowledge of what it's going to be used for.

[walshemj]

And if the guns are used in a Charlie Hebdo style massacre or a stade de france style attack?

America is lucky in that its home grown terrorists have ben to be blunt a bit crap.

[wavefunction]

Smuggling weapons that will surely be used for crimes including murder, and likely enabling many more murders than the smuggler is personally capable of?

[rjsw]

Would you be happier if they had been convicted of attempted murder.