Not so complicated.
Guns are banned, and knives are banned. So only outlaws have guns, and knives.
Basically, it’s possible for a violent thug to achieve the same degree of one-on-one intimidation (perhaps even more) over a victim, with a knife, and knives are quiet.
Guns are really, really loud. Britain is a small, densely populated country. Shoot a gun, and about 3,000 people know about it, instantly.
In a country with cameras on ever corner, in the era of cell phones (and most likely, an array of directional mikes), an instant dragnet about 5 seconds after a gunshot is reported.
I would imagine, the bad guys figure they can get exactly the same results with a knive, with almost zero risk of being aprehended. All they need to do, is somehow mask their identity to recording devices while they make their getaway, so someone reviewing the tapes the next day, can’t figure out who they are.
Scott free. They know their victims are unarmed, so they’ve basically got free money.
The flip side of this is ... if potential victims had guns, that calculation, would be completely invalid.
In other words, Ted Nugent is *completely* correct.
But Britain is hysterical, and beyond thinking rationally about this.
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Next step: Sharia.
“Next step, Sharia”
Excellent post: Britain is absolutely carpeted with surveillance cameras. Knives which make no noise just make more sense to the criminals than guns.
But will the Muzzies now start running candidates for office who promise “Sharia law will end the violence! Those captured with knives shall forfeit their right hands!”
(Wouldn’t visit Londonistan for all the tea in Mecca.)
In a society ruled by the Constitution of the U.S., law-abiding citizens would welcome the attention that would result from firing a gun in self-defense. Criminals, however, would naturally not welcome such attention.
Even if it were possible to eliminate all guns from society, I would think it would be better for the 'top weapon' be one that offers more advantages to the law-abiding than to criminals, than for it to be one that favors criminals (as do knives).