Willi, yes I do. How many people do you know who could pass a physiological profiling if run by e.g. the SAS. It doesnt take 10,000. These people are cowards, it takes merely the comment and as many as you can field, as quickly as you can field them. Also, take the US and look properly at the stats. How many people, how many guns, how many suicides and how many non-criminal killings - we need to get real sadly. People with guns deter people with guns, especially cowards with guns who smoke pot and drink alcohol and are really just thugs. You need to open your mind a little and stop listening to biased propaganda. Are servicemen a cross section of society or are they not? They dont seem to shoot each other, except, occasionally by accident.
Clearly you haven't looked at the statistics from the FBI. If you had you'd be aware that a homicide is something quite different from a suicide. A suicide is where someone kills themselves, a homicide is where someone kills them. To make it simple, a homicide is what we know as "murder". There were 12,253 murders in the US in 2013.
You could also have looked and seen how many of those homicides were committed by offenders who were known to the victim. If you had you'd have seen that, where the relationship between offender and victim was known, over 55% of victims were killed by someone they knew. More than 1,600 victims were killed by someone in their immediate or close family. Not gang members, not criminals, not dope-fiends or crackheads, but a member of their own family.
As for "people with guns deter people with guns", show me some evidence! What those same statistics show instead is simply that "people with guns kill people". Of those 12,253 murders (not suicides) committed in 2013 some 8,454 involved a firearm - that's nearly 70%. Or try it this way - it's the same as the population of Dunoon. Wiped out. In a year. However you dress it up, that's an awful lot of people.
Oh, and the statistics from the FBI are - by their own admission - under reported, since they rely on the filings from local police forces.
And yet somehow having armed vigilantes rushed onto the streets of the U.K. is the answer to our problems. Apparently trained by the SAS no less. Well, I shall sleep safer in my bed knowing that.
So far as my "listening to biased propaganda", I must have missed you looking over my shoulder. You have no idea about me, my politics, or what I might read. To suggest I am influenced by biased propaganda would be insulting if it wasn't so laughable.
What I am interested in is facts. Not rumour, not innuendo, not anecdotes and not bigotry, but facts. Something sorely missing from much of what I read on here.