sorry, but you can't say that is the reason. you can't say for a fact that the crime in the uk is rising because guns aren't legal. there's hundreds of reasons for the crime in scotland, from yobism to pure and utter boredom.

in my area people get jumped just because the person has thought they were looking at them funny, others because they're "moshers" or look like "freaks" it has fuck all to do with guns and everything to do with peoples attitudes. and im pretty sure that the crime situation here would be a hell of a lot worse if guns were legal. infact! gun crimes in the uk have also been rising. im not sure i would even leave my front door if they did become legal, as i get enough abuse as it is. i had some little twerp threaten to ram me with a metal pole because he thought i was a goth, could you imagine how that situation would have been with a gun?

considering you dont even live in scotland i dont think you can actualy say too much about it, since you really dont know the culture, this is a country where people are killed purely from supporting a different team from one and other (football). in the 50's/60's glasgow was basicaly run by gangs of youths who used to stab and beat each other just for fun.

as a nation we have always been a violent nation, guns or no guns.

for some reason throughout the centuries we have just loved kicking the living shit out of one and other. it goes right back to the clans fighting for land.

i can't speak for england or any other part of the uk. but scotland has always been violent.