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Originally Posted by ophic
The problem is, if the laws allow you to keep a gun, they'll just assume you have one and shoot you on sight. In the current state of affairs, armed robberies tend to occur with no loss of life - someone points a gun at you, and you do as you're told. There are always exceptions - there are brutal killings etc going on, but not nearly as many as I believe would happen if things were changed in the way you suggest. As you say, some of them aren't thick. Or they'll break in when you're out, which many already do anyway. They might even nick your gun, and go use it to rob someone else...
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No they won't, who'd face a murder charge for the sake of the £11.55 in someones wallet.
Them breaking in when you're out is better than when you're home. It saves Granny Smith down the road getting battered over the head for her pension book if the thieves think she might have a .22 stashed under her pillow!
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Originally Posted by Dave20046
I still reckon it'd be a suicide mission for someone to try and burgle a property where they suspect the tenant to be armed. If they were legal I'd have a thoroughly alarmed house, without the element of surprise they're as good as dead. Anyway all that aside I'd find the real problem with the uk having guns legally would be the sheer availability. Gun crime & fatalities would go sky high.
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I seem to remember a statistic which suggests there have been MORE shootings in UK since the handgun ban.
If they still allowed handguns for purposes of sport shooting, no way would I shoot someone with mine. If I had a .45 and wanted to kill someone, I'd do exactly the same thing as I would now, and go buy a completely different weapon for the act, then melt it down and throw the resulting slag in a deep lake.
It's not exactly hard to get hold of a firearm at the moment.
Red Herring, I like your example, but I'd rather have the
choice of whether to carry or not, and you've still the choice of whether to draw and fire.
Even confronted with an armed assailant, and you well drilled and practiced, carrying a loaded firearm, it's going to be far more of a pain in the backside to explain to the police why there are 2 blokes brains all over a nice clean pavement than it is to ring up and cancel your bank cards
Still what it comes down to is you should have the right to do whatever the hell you like until it hurts someone else. Including soulkiss' example of carrying a sword down the street, or even having a GPMG under your bed.