The Gun Map of England and Wales.

[bobbob]

I thought this would be of interest to some on here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog ... ?fb=native

[ovenpaa]

Good find. I have seen the data before but not mapped like this. Outside of Cleveland and the City of London my county has the lowest number of FAC holders/100k population

[Sandgroper]

Pity Scotland wasn't included, but I have to wonder what point the Guardian was trying to make?

[Michael Sproul]

I imagine they were mainly just trying to get people frothing with the sentence that goes something like "overall firearm applications are up but so are the amount of revocations".

I can imagine the facestalk updates after the hard of thinking read it,

"OMG moar peeple are buyin guns than eva why wud the crazed mentalists wants guns!!!!1!one!"

[whoowhoop]

Wonder what the "unlicensed" map would be like........

[Watcher]

Second worst area is the NW; better do something about that....

[Catch]

Nice! My area is light blue. We obviously need more guns issued. Good ammunition for the FLO :shakeshout:

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[Doz]

Wonder what the "unlicensed" map would be like........

I'd guess at pretty much the exact opposite of the licensed one.

[Gaz]

I imagine they were mainly just trying to get people frothing with the sentence that goes something like "overall firearm applications are up but so are the amount of revocations".

Pretty much. The Guardian has a history of using "data journalism" to push its own editorial line. In this case, "OMG look how many evil guns there are in the UK!"

[Porcupine]

Why so negative? Look at all these hundreds of thousands of guns that are all around you not killing anyone!