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.
When was the TEL inventory? I cannot believe that anything so “American” could occur in the civilized UK much later than say, TELs death back in the post WW1 days.