General Comment;
Wanna bet for everyone successful defeat of a home invasion in good ol England there are 50-100 that end just the other way...
Too bad there are no free men (armed) in England, golly, even the UK Pistol team has to drive to... FRANCE to practice!
They at least, have no law abiding citizens that can use a lawfully owned handgun (or many long arms either) for any purpose, legal or otherwise, much to the delight of the gun control crowd-now knives and other “weapons” are being policed up as well. Soon to be very messy place to be.
Ever notice that few home invasions occur in the rural American homeland compared to the “civilized” urban areas? Too many individualists willing to be men and take their security as a personal responsibility.
“You can perhaps persuade and armed amn, you may force and unarmed man”.
God Bless
I think the numbers aren't that bad yet, more like a dozen to one- still pretty miserable. But too, so are some of the unsolved deaths of those who've picked the wrong victims frequently just added to the statistics, since those who previously would have forthrightly reported the incident now see the laws and those who enforce them as no longer servants of the people, but simply machinery of the state, meant to grind the People down.
And in the rural spots, much of that hasn't permeated yet. I recall that when Thomas Edward Lawrence *of Arabia's* home cottage at Clouds Hill was inventoried, not only were his personal handguns still loaded and functional, but so too was a Lewis *light* .303 machine gun and ready 47-round drum magazines, ready for solving social problems by the dozens.