Of course. Nothing ever happens until it does. And if it does, the Bobbies will protect you. And even if they don't, nobody else is allowed to have a handgun. Oh, wait, except the criminals, who do not obey laws.
Your mindset is precisely that of my own countrymen who claim I (and hundreds of millions more) do not need the ability to carry to protect ourselves.
And that brings us full circle to my previous points about freedom, and the lack of freedom in the UK, despite the 'praise of monachy' expressed by the article.
You see carrying as a sign of freedom, and I get that fully, I do.
Others look at it as you live in a country with such a level of violence and gun violence that you don’t feel safe without some sort of weapon.