The way to eliminate the use of axes, pickaxes and baseball bats in crime is to allow the homeowners to have some sort of hand-held device that emits a small projectile made of steel and lead, aimed at the chest or head of the attacker; the projectile being capable of reaching the attacker’s body within just a moment prior to the attacker’s weapon being raised in threat.
Baseball bats in England? Supposed to be cricket bats, aren’t they?
Maybe if we install some more cameras.
And besides, with socialized medicine, you can go to get medical care for those wounds, if you survive.
Would you like to learn how to defend yourself against a man attacking with a banana?