"Offensive Weapons" in the UK

[The Grand Nudger]

That's something you take for granted, that the laws are reasonable. I would take issue with that. There's nothing less lethal about a brick in my hands than a rifle. I'll kill someone just as dead just as easily with either, but making bricks unlawful would seem -to some- to be "unreasonable" in exactly the same way as making firearms (or a class of firearms) unlwaful would seem to me. A reasonabvle law, to me, would be that robbery was illegal - regardless of whether or not one used a weapon (or what type of weapon). Making a firearm illegal on the reasoning that criminals use them, to me, is just as reasonable as making shoes illegal because criminals use them, or cars (and this one is really key..because I could run somebody over as easily as I could shoot them...and many more people die from vehicle related incidents than guns here anyway....lets not even talk about common table butter or cigarettes). No law that you have prevents a criminal from robbing you at gunpoint. If the law was compelling to them they wouldn't be criminals. The reason that you, in the UK, aren't likely to be held at gunpoint is economics. I checked the reported street price for a firearm (an ak specifically) relative to the UK, Australia, the US, and Afghanistan. As it turns out, I probably wouldn't buy an AK in the UK either, costs 5 times as much (which is 5 times over again what it costs relative to the US/Afghanistan). People looking to mug you for your pocket change aren't likely to have a couple grand laying around.

How much more likely do you think I am to "catch a bullet" than you Stimbo (and does it matter whether or not I get mugged by gunpoint or knifepoint...if I'm getting mugged...honestly)?