I’m sorry, but if that’s your idea of freedom, you can fucking keep it. Our police, though not saints, don’t shoot unarmed people. At least in Britain we are free from being shot in school.
Are you implying there's a stabbing epidemic in Britain? (apologies if I'm misunderstanding that)
Britain doesn't have a stabbing epidemic[1]. It's a meme
Media attention made the obsession, not whatever actually happens in the real world. Ah, if only people cared as much about heart and brain diseases :(
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-... (click on Rate per 100k on the last table)
No, my point is that the insane knife restrictions we have aren't actually necessary since many countries lack such restrictions and still don't end up with a stabbing epidemic as a result.
1) There is in fact a need to curb knife crime, without these measures people would die a lot more.
2) There is no significant risk of knife crime, UK uses arbitrary law application to harass undesirable individuals and/or instill a "harmless mindset" into its subjects.
Not sure what's worse.
Whatever their problem is it's not guns.
However, easy access to guns mean that people in an unstable mental state might use one to commit (mass?) murder in an act of folly that they would otherwise not do (or at the very least significantly reduce the amount of victims if they had to use a knife instead of a ranged weapon).
Once you exclude these....
> commit (mass?) murder in an act of folly that they would otherwise not do
These become so rare that they are effectively non existent when compared to literally any other cause of death.
What you describe is a definition of a nanny state.
Yes, America has an incredibly violent "macho" culture for a so-called first world country, in general and not just as it pertains to firearms. It's probable that the high rate of gun ownership is a symptom of this rather than a cause. But given that this is the case, proliferating the means for people to easily murder each other in such a society is obviously going to exacerbate things.
Always puzzled me.