After banning guns, swords, knives, airguns, and the carrying anything considering physically "offensive", citizens of the United Kingdom have resorted to begging criminals for mercy marching against gunmen.

The Mothers Against Violence group is being headed by Pat Regan, whose son Danny, 26, was blasted to death by three bullets.

The march is part of a national campaign which aims to rid the streets of violence and gun-related crime.

Unlike in the U.S. where moms march against gun ownership, moms in the UK don't have much left to march against. Everything is banned, which is having the expected results.

Crimes involving firearms have doubled in West Yorkshire in five years, from 1,062 to 2,044 for the year 2002/3.

Doubled. That's a pretty telling statistic, considering crime has been falling in the U.S. (where access to guns is prolific) since 1994.