Looks like that fabulous gun ban worked out pretty good...
For the shooter...
You get your act together before trying to take the piss.
In the last year for which information is available 2008/9, the number of deaths in England and Wales due to firearms was 38 - thirty eight. The figure for deaths in USA with a population roughly about 6 times is tens of Thousands.
http://tna.europarchive.org/20100413151426/homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1109chap3.pdf
see page 9.