"::::::::::::: I repeat, with added emphasis: ""You clearly did not understand the meaning of ""I would note as an aside..."" That Grieve's comments were clearly politically motivated is an adiditonal point that does not invalidate the reason for removing your misleading text in the first place."" 
 ::::::::::::: You only introduced the quote attributed to Grieve part way through this process. You were wrong before you did that, and remain wrong now, regardless of the quote. 
 ::::::::::::: 1) Firearms ownership remains the preserve of a tiny minority of the population. 
 ::::::::::::: 2) Your cited source does not say that, and you have failed to quote the bit you think does, despite requests. 
 ::::::::::::: 3) Your cited source reports a recent spike in urban firearms crime based on interim mid-year figures. It does not say firearms crime as a whole - ""illegally-held"" or otherwise - is rising, and you have failed to quote the bit you think does, despite requests. 
 ::::::::::::: The figures for firearms-enabled crime as a whole show that it has been falling steadily and consiutently over the last decade. Fact.    

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