They need more laws to protect them.
Good thing there are no guns.
You are on to a loser if you think Britain is going to see legalising the carrying of handguns in public as the solution to our problems, because as many gleefully point out, America’s murder rate is much higher than that of the UK, even if other crimes aren’t. Speak to a Briton about introducing American-style gun laws, and all they will see is images of feral thugs who at the moment are largely confined to fists or crude implements tooling themselves up like Rambo and ramping up the carnage and devastation.
It’s worth pointing out that Japan is far more crime free than either the US or the UK, and their gun laws make Britain’s look positively permissive. The problem isn’t guns, but society. It needs to be tackled at it’s root by somehow reversing the welfare dependency culture, which while it had the best of intentions when it was set up did not foresee that it would lead to an entitlement culture. This I believe is a key cause of this malaise. The building of more prisons and the reintroduction of hard labour as part of a sentence would probably do it’s part in A) keeping the scum element off the streets and B) dettering them from ever wanting to go to prison again, as opposed to the current ‘Butlins holiday camp’ set up prison system we have now which whilst still a horrible place for a middle-class and generally law-abiding person to end up, is no terror for the lowest orders and habitual criminals who are simply mixing with their own...