I would point out that it isn't just guns that the British have been stripped of, it is also the largest part of the legal concept of self defense, with any weapon, or with NONE.
"die if you must, but never fight back" seems to have become the entrenched mentality of the British government.
Banning something, because someone, somewhere, uses it for an evil purpose has NEVER worked to stop evil, anywhere, at anytime.
It is, however, a cheap thing (much cheaper than actual police and police work, prisons and actual punishment) and it LOOKS like the govt is actually doing something, and that they care.
They aren't, and they don't, but it looks like it, so they do it.
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All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
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