Welp, in the absence of the government taking totalitarian control of the country, I will say I'm extremely happy with the fact we don't have permissive gun laws here. You can still get a gun, by the way; my brother in law has 2, my father in law the same - but they're registered, mandated in a locked cabinet and also in use in the countryside, not in the city, and they're rifles not semi/fully automatic military style weapons. Pretty difficult to sneak a 4 foot long rifle into a night club, and even harder to kill 50 people with it.

Sure, I fully accept that criminals can still get guns and all the standard pro-gun arguments that are made by the NRA types; at least it means every other cunt around doesn't have one. The chances of me being robbed or shot at gun point is spectacularly low compared to a place where everybody has access to a gun. Even if they were completely legal and I could go and buy one tomorrow, I still wouldn't own one.

Probably a good thing too, over the years I reckon I'd have shot a couple of my neighbours if I could've.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people; guns are just a tool" - True, but it's a shitload harder to kill 50 people with a hammer.