just go crazy. so you talk about how eole are just go crazy. so you talk about how peeple are sick just go crazy. so you talk about how people are sick of just go crazy. so you talk about how people are sick of polarisation, butl people are sick of polarisation, but even looking at this debate tonight, you ll have eight candidates who are finally able to have some time to express their views and positions, but how much does it really matter when they are inundated with media, social media telling them how to think and feel? i social media telling them how to think and feel? think and feel? i think that s a really important think and feel? i think that s a really important question - think and feel? i think that s a - really important question because although really important question because although the candidates here will be arguing although the candidates here will be arguing with one another, a lot of the battle arguing with one another, a lot of the battle that seem
for many, that involves guns. you re talking somewhere in excess of 600,000 people in the uk have either a firearms certificate or a shot gun certificate or both. so, you ll have people who control vermin, you will have deer managers and then you ve you have recreational shooters, you have target shooters. if you look at the public safety record with regard to firearms, there s actually quite strong evidence to say that police forces pretty much get it right. it s not in our interests for anyone who should haven t a firearms certificate or a shotgun certificate to get one. events like these celebrate a culture, a way of life and that way of life includes gun ownership. so how to properly balance public safety, with the hundreds of thousands of people who responsibly own guns? that s a question the government s looking at again. the amount of violent crime committed by licensed gun owners is small, but when it happens, the results are devastating forfamily and communities. andrew foster