QFT. -The only semi-intelligent words you've written on this page...
That {letting citizens have guns} clearly works very well in the US.
Put it in perspective; Imagine the carnage we'd have right now if suddenly all of our citizens magically didn't have guns anymore yet thousands of evildoers still had theirs... Would you want to stand for that?
That is what it would be like if we never had legal guns here.
Not sure why you are calling it my "little island", I don't live in the UK (although I have done for a couple of years in the past) and never said I do.
Sorry, Jeeves! Where are you, anyway?
The point is that there are dregs, not that there are not and no one says or thinks that there are not. What I am saying is not to put guns into the hands of the dregs.
Wow you are thick.
The Dregs WILL & DO have them. If guns really do not exist around them then some entrepreneurial lowlife will find a way to fabricate guns (It's not rocket science!) and distribute them there to all of the more successful dregs.
It's true that if they were easier to get ahold of then today's brit mob would be a little better armed like the Rodney King mob became, but then the bobbies would in turn be authorized to use deadly force to break up this mob.
That in turn would have very quickly killed the uprising... It wouldn't have lasted past the 2nd night. Here's how this scenario plays out in the long run:
Total fatalities without guns:
Innocents: 50 (Killed defending their home over weeks)
Mobfools: 2
Total Fatlities WITH guns:
Innocents: 2
Mobfools: 8 (All killed by police in 1 night)
So is that what you'd prefer?
I am saying it should be used as a deterrent. In my opinion it would cut this type of crime down to very low levels without having to actually conscript many people as these lazy slobs would do anything not to have to do any hard work and have people telling them what to do on a daily basis.
Since you can't know which kids are going to be the bad guys before they are already the bad guys, you are advocating nothing less than state-enforced Military service for everyone. Is that also what you'd prefer?