Tell that to the criminals who don't follow the law...
It's OK I understand many people have a fear about firearms but just think about them poor people who been killed and could not defend themselves
Not a fear of guns just the prats that have access to them.
There's an awful lot of people one comment away from losing their grip on reality the last thing I want to do is arm them. All the health/criminal checks in the world won't prevent that.
The problem with giving people more means to defend themselves is the attackers tend to source greater means of attacking. It'll be an arms race.
At the moment worst case realistically is a knife attack they're damn hard to defend against but you have a greater chance of survival than if the attacker had a gun. Even if you had a gun to "defend" yourself then all its done is escalate the conflict. You cannot defend against a gun best case scenario someone definitly ends up dead worst case some poor bugger walking by gets hit as well.
This is completely ignoring the added ability for people who'd want to commit atrocities like we're seeing access to such weapons. We don't have such an issue here and I'd hate to create one on the basis of defending oneself.
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