Gun control works! It forces some murderers to use knives instead!
Or baseball bats.
Amazon UK's Soaring Baseball Bat Sales
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/08/11/amazon-uks-soaring-baseball-bat-sales/?sh=5700e7e165de
with a gun in your hand is not an option open to the average Englishman when civil disorder erupts. In fact, owning a handgun of any kind, by anyone (yes, even single shot target pistols of the Olympic kind: the team has to do its practice outside the UK), is illegal.
So, when civil disorder does erupt, as it has done in those riots, said average Englishman needs to be creative as to what weapons can be used for defence. Amazon UK quickly suspended sales of police style batons, so the sales of baseball bats have soared.
Amazon has removed several police-style telescopic truncheons from sale on its site as soaring sales of truncheons, baseball bats and other items that could be used as weapons sparked fears of vigilantism in the wake of widespread rioting.
Sales of one type of aluminium truncheon rose 50,000% within 24 hours, entering the top-10 bestselling items in the sports category. Before they were de-listed, two different “police-style” truncheons had seen sales increase more than 400-fold overnight, though from a low base.