...but from where you sit, looks like your nanny state viewpoint has lost the bigger picture. You are there, we are here. Apples and Oranges.
Firstly - nanny state? Utter bullshit, as usual.
Secondly - bigger picture? Try applying this to your own argument.
Fact of the matter is that we don't need to be armed in the UK. Hard to grasp maybe, but consider how much gun crime we have here compared to the US, and this is down to the lack of guns, not the proliferation of them.
How many times, each year, do you have an 'active shooter' scenario unfold? Quite a few it seems. As far back as I can remember, there have been only two in the UK - laws were changed and neither scenario happened since. Is this somehow a bad thing?
How many times do your police officers get shot and killed each year? Not an especially frequent situation over here, not at all - but it seems to occur on a regular basis in the US. Which is preferable to you?
As you say it is indeed 'apples and oranges' but then you seem to ignore this, and turn it into a 'you are right, we are wrong' situation?
Considering how we are not an armed society, and because of this we are apparently so very vulnerable - how on earth do we manage?
You want guns in the US, therefore you need them. We don't. You do the 'math'. All the figures are there, don't spin them with the usual claims of legitimate use pushing them up - even without this, just count the straight-up murders by bad guys, the drive-by shootings, the school shootings, the shopping-mall shootings. Plenty. Plenty of murders that we don't have over here because of our 'idiotic' gun control that prevents it happening.
Mick
