It's not as if these laws are unreasonable or difficult: "owning any of these weapons, not to mention carrying them in public, carries this penalty". Now, as to whether certain laws are right or wrong, that's a completely different topic. I have no complaints regarding the rights and wrongs of our offensive weapon laws, since I prefer living in a society where I can be reasonably certain I'm not going to catch a bullet, whether from someone who wants my wallet (and the best of luck to 'em), some copper with an itchy finger, or some random domestic argument. Yes, we have had our share of gun-related tragedies (in fact there was one right here in Walsall some twenty years ago), 100% of which have centred around some crazed loon with some grudge or other and possibly even voices in his head. I can't realistically see how arming everyone as a matter of course would have helped very much.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
