Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Woman shot, killed at Walmart in Idaho by two-year-old son [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)why UK is more violent now than then, or at least the use of guns.
Back when UK's gun laws were "laxer" than much of the US, kindergarten teachers didn't get machine gunned on London streets. The real reason gun laws were passed in the UK had more to do with the 1920s version of OWS than "public safety". Certainly you can't blame that on lax gun laws or the SYG Parliament passed in the 1960s. Not that it really matters, since any means of self defense where there is a disparity of force is impossible.
The fact that the police are not to protect you, and several SCOTUS decisions dating back to Warren v DC show that is good enough reason. It seems ironic that the birthplace of the Enlightenment also rejected many if not most of its concepts and prefer a society under surveillance, police are not limited by Parliament (and had armored vehicles and "militarized police" decades before the US, absurd libel laws limit free speech. Anarchy means rules without rulers, which sounds much better, and more liberal, than Air Strip One.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Short answer, the UK solved nothing. You can't solve a problem you didn't have.