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Prime Minister to visit Cumbria shooting police
David Cameron is to spend Friday with police in Cumbria, where shootings left 12 people dead and 11 injured.
The PM sympathised with communities left "deeply torn" by Wednesday's "horrific events" but warned against knee-jerk changes to gun laws.
Police investigations are continuing into what caused Derrick Bird, 52, to go on the rampage, amid reports of a possible family row over a will.
The taxi driver was pursued by armed police before turning a gun on himself.
Eight of the injured are now in a stable or comfortable condition in hospital. The remaining three have been discharged.
Speaking at a press conference, Mr Cameron said: "These clearly are absolutely horrific events, [a] really terrible situation that has taken place in our country, over the last 24 hours."
The prime minister said he would do everything possible to help "mend the hurt" of communities and "to make sure that everything is done to make sure that events like this cannot happen again in our country".
However, he said the UK's rules on firearms ownership were already among the world's toughest.
"We shouldn't make any knee-jerk reaction to think that there is some instant legislative or regulatory answer," he said.
"You can't legislate to stop a switch flicking in someone's head and for this dreadful sort of action to take place," he added.
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Posted on Wednesday 9th June 2010
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