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by cm2187 3673 days ago
I think smuggling is a less serious crime than murder.
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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.
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.

Smuggling weapons that will surely be used for crimes including murder, and likely enabling many more murders than the smuggler is personally capable of?
Would you be happier if they had been convicted of attempted murder.