"Offensive Weapons" in the UK

[Cato]

Remember: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Which leaves you an interesting quandary.

Here you are, armed to the teeth, walking down the street, when from the side someone says "Hey, buddy."

Do you whip out your gun and blow him away on the supposition that his next words would be "stick 'em up?"

Suppose his next words were "do you know the time?"

Is not knowing the time really a capital offense in your world?

Of course, you could leave your gun in its holster and turn and say "yes." In which case, if he is an armed robber and already has his gun out yours will not do you a hell of a lot of good. In fact, he'll probably steal that from you too along with your wallet.

Decisions. Decisions.

I think you'll find as much evidence for the existence of god as you will the evidence for people gunned down for asking the time.

You seem to ignore the concept of deterence. Have you ever heard of someone holding up an NRA convention? Care to guess why?

What about those in Chicago, gun free city, that are put on trial for shooting a home invader? People die everyday in Chicago because of a bullet, yet the law says nobody can have guns. How does this work?