[PoisedWoman]

The 1994 arrest of a homeowner for using a toy gun to detain a pair of home invasion burglars;

Irrelevant, as first paragraph states guns were banned in 1997.

[Dr. Frank fan]

[The 1994 arrest of a homeowner for using a toy gun to detain a pair of home invasion burglars; ] Irrelevant, as first paragraph states guns were banned in 1997.

This doesn't make that 1994 arrest "irrelevant". It just indicates that Britain didn't become idiotic overnight in 1997, but rather, as part of a longer process, which happened to include a 1994 arrest of a homeowner for using a frickin' toy gun.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The 1994 arrest of a homeowner for using a toy gun to detain a pair of home invasion burglars;

If there were a pair of home invasion burglars at my house, I'd do more than "detain" them. They'll find out what .44 magnum, 240 grain, hollow-points are all about.