Invisible wrote:
> Because if guns are illegal, it makes it that much harder to get hold of 
> them. Not impossible, surely, but very much harder.

If guns were illegal for everyone to own, that would likely be true. 
However, there's lots of stuff that's illegal in one place and legal others, 
and lots of large locked shipping containers moving from one place to another.

Plus, this isn't nuclear weapons. People were making really excellent 
firearms by hand 200 years ago. Ever hear of a "zip gun"?

> Certainly there have always been a small minority of armed police. You 
> don't see them very often, however. (Even back when it was legal to have 
> guns in this country.)

I think it's more that police in the UK don't need guns because of the 
culture there, than it is the police lacking guns makes the crime less violent.

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