Do you think guns should be legal in the UK after a background check ?

you could also say that it could have been prevented, that argument goes both ways

Correct. So make guns legal then?

Yes. People who live in cities perhaps don't realise this, but out here in the countryside, if a violent thug breaks into my home and I call the police, it will be half an hour before they arrive due to the simple logistics of getting them here. The thug has plenty of time to kill or seriously injure me and my family, cause serious damage, steal our valuables and get away. Obviously it goes without saying that not all types of gun should become legal and an extensive background and circumstances check should be conducted before the granting of a gun license, together with perhaps an annual mental health assessment by a psychiatrist for all gun licenseholders, to prevent another Dunblane, but it's not fair that I shouldn't be able to defend myself because background and health check laws weren't stringent enough and so some whackjob committed a massacre.

That was supposed to say 'Why make guns legal?'
Silly me

If majority of the population owned a gun. Do you think that if someone is trying to break into a house then it would make them think and consider the risk of even doing it ?

Oh, so if random, untrained pedestrians had guns that would have stopped a trained gunman from killing anyone, and definitely not resulted in more death

Surely this person who is considering breaking into the house will also own a gun then? So what difference does it make?

The obvious solution is for there to be a large proportion of well-trained men who can defend the homeland against terrorists. The police state has proven itself repeatedly incapable of doing so.

130 people died in Paris. Mumbai, which is similarly disarmed, had 164 deaths.

The obvious solution is for there to be a large proportion of well-trained men who can defend the homeland against terrorists. The police state has proven itself repeatedly incapable of doing so.

If majority of the population owned a gun. Do you think that if someone is trying to break into a house then it would make them think and consider the risk of even doing it ?

Every male member of the household should be conscripted or sent to social services, like in Germany. Then, after those who graduate from the army have a family, they should be required to own and maintain an assault rifle for the defence of their household and community.

Further, defence laws need to be changed so that maiming and killing in self-defence and defence of property are not punishable.

However the UK has the opposite mentality. I think if or when mass civil unrest happens, people will start thinking very differently.

That their life is directly in danger ? So breaking into a house right now he is not risking his life at all. At worse he might get stabbed (hehe still bad) and the owner will call the police. The burglar putting his life at risk.

Absolutely not. It should not be legal to kill someone to stop them nicking a telly.

Giving people killing machines with no other practical purpose is a bad idea. No guns= no one getting killed by guns. Not to mention that if you have guns, kids get hold of them play soldiers and shoot someone or themselves.

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no guns doesn't necessarily equal not getting killed by guns. If a criminal wants to get a gun he will. There are many was to get a gun illegally so if a criminal wants one he will get it.

A person owning a gun should not let kids play with it. Gun should be locked away. Plus why limit guns just because one in 10 million cases some idiot will not handle it well and give it to his kids.

no guns doesn't necessarily equal not getting killed by guns. If a criminal wants to get a gun he will. There are many was to get a gun illegally so if a criminal wants one he will get it.

A person owning a gun should not let kids play with it. Gun should be locked away. Plus why limit guns just because one in 10 million cases some idiot will not handle it well and give it to his kids.

And yet it makes no difference in America. If this burglar breaks into a house whilst they are asleep (I doubt someone would storm into a house during broad daylight when everyone is awake), then the family's ownership of a gun does not put them in a better position. They are sleeping. And even if they do wake up, the burglar has a gun. They are on the same boat.

Point is, the gun laws in USA is hardly making it a safer place and so I fail to see why it would make a significant difference in Britain.

Ban: knives, cars, baseball bat, chairs, hammers, hands, feet, football and rugby boots, men in general, glass, china, ladles, alcohol, any other drugs which can be overdosed on, windows, stairs..

no guns doesn't necessarily equal not getting killed by guns. If a criminal wants to get a gun he will. There are many was to get a gun illegally so if a criminal wants one he will get it.

A person owning a gun should not let kids play with it. Gun should be locked away. Plus why limit guns just because one in 10 million cases some idiot will not handle it well and give it to his kids.