According to all credible measures, that’s the way most Brits like it. While there is a small segment of the UK population active in promoting the shooting sports and abolishing the Firearms Acts that banned, among other firearms, centerfire semi-automatic rifles and handguns, the sympathies of the general public are pretty much where their rulers want them to be... [More]Give it a few years and a bit more cultural terraforming...
Using this as source of numbers:
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40+ injured by vehicle
1 death by knife, police officer
3 deaths by vehicle
1 death of the attacker by police gunfire
I would not be too proud of those numbers as any measurement of "success".
Painting a turd purple does not change that it is still a turd, even as you admire the color.
My grandfather sent a rifle to England during WW2. I wouldn;t send my spit in a bottle. You get what you deserve. Johnny Gee.
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