Reply #49: The Brits have never been very big on personal gun ownership.

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The wealthy Brits have their beautiful shotguns for birding, and some fabalous big game rifles. But the everyday guy rarely owned a gun. That went doubly so for handguns. It wasn't a matter of law. They just didn't need them. They never had the problems that Americans had to caused us to arm ourselves so heavily. So gun control was easily accepted there as few people had to give anything up.

Now they are discovering that knife control doesn't work. The reasons that it doesn't work are the same reasons why gun control doesn't work.