Should guns be legal in the UK?

There really isn't much difference between an assault rifle and a semi-automatic rifle, pistol or shotgun. If you want to go crazy and kill a whole bunch of people, you can do it with a semi-auto just as easy as an auto. Indiscriminate fire really isn't as huge a deal as some will make out.

-Criminals all have guns so at the moment all the Govt is doing is giving them a huge advantage over the innocent.

-Apart from the US all the countries where guns are legal have lower crime rates.

-The UK had a lower murder rate before guns were made illegal

-The Government has no right to say you cant have a weapon? They are making the incorrect assumption that the only reason you would have a gun is for crime.

-It would stop a lot of crimes on the streets if citizens all have weapons. You could say that the Taj Mahal takeover in india wouldn't have happened if the people inside had guns.

-We are powerless to any corruption or takeover from our own government or others if that ever happened?

Yeah what i meant was there isn't really much point in an automatic because if you tried shooting a burgular the bullets would end up going through walls for hundreds of metres

and being too dangerous which is why i thought they shouldn't be legal as there isn't a point for

On the other hand shotguns would provide a perfect defence weapon as they fire a few metres.

-Apart from the US all the countries where guns are legal have lower crime rates.

Shooting a burglar is still killing someone you know

Have you got any proof of this? Because I really, really don't believe you.

Owning a gun, you are most likely to kill:

Yourself
Your family
A complete stranger

Shooting a burglar is still killing someone you know

Switzerland

First point, I'd argue that the legalisation of firearms will result in more burglaries to obtain firearms and a greater proliferation of illegal firearms, something that is rife in the US despite laxer firearms laws.
Would burgularies decrease though due to the fsct thehomeowner inside has a firearm to defend with?

Secondly, our country is probably most culturally similar to the US out of all the countries on the planet, so I think legalisation of firearms would lead to a similar situation to the one they have there.
If starting introducing guns from scratch we are able to avoid many of the things that create the huge gun problems in the US such as overpormoting shooting ranges/war and battle (we know how patriotic the US is), the ease for anyone to get a gun from any shop, the types of guns etc.

Third point is correlation not causation, many factors have contributed to the increasing murder rate, the drugs trade, worse job opportunities for those lower down the social scale, increase in gang culture generally. i don't think any of it has a bearing on firearm legality.
All i know is that from the year guns were taken away there was a step up in murder rates and all previous years it had been fairly constant.

Fourth point, I'd say that there are certain situations in which an individual can be prohibited from owning an item if there is an overwhelming probability that that item will be used to harm another.
Yeah obviously there will be restrictions on who can have one but i'm on about the everyday family person.

This isn't the OK Coral, seriously, legalisation will increase the number of firearms on the streets and will increase the probability that robberies which were previous perpetrated either unarmed or with knives or baseball bats will be perpetrated with guns in the future.
But the crimes would have been commited regardless. Guns will help in the defence a lot more than the attack. Also guns are already easily available on the streets if anyone wants one. if a criminal wants to use a gun to kill someone then they can just nowadays the victim has no defence.

Well we have no need for guns as there is nothing to hunt.