A little more background on "arms control" in Britain for those who might be interested.
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/amy-swearer/why-london-imposing-knife-control-because-gun-control-hasnt-workedWhy Is London Imposing ‘Knife Control’? Because Gun Control Hasn’t Worked[I've always considered it bizarre the the Brits don't count a homicide as a homicide unless someone is
convicted of homicide. An autopsy/coroner investigation could easily rule out suicide or accident, and I'm sure in most cases it's obvious, yet I see very few writers, if any, that mentioned that the disparity in homicides rates would be vastly less so if both countries counted the same way...]
It’s important to note that comparisons of homicide rates between the United States and the United Kingdom are difficult because since 1967, the U.K.’s official definition of homicide for crime reports has been relatively unconcerned with the actual number of dead bodies.
Instead, the country only counts as homicides those instances where a person is convicted of murder—meaning justifiable homicides and deaths where no suspect is caught or convicted are excluded.
If the United States simply removed from its homicide counts those cases where no suspect was arrested—still a more inclusive standard than the one of conviction used by the U.K.—the nation’s overall homicide rate would fall to roughly half of where it currently stands.
The U.K. would still have a slightly lower overall homicide rate, but the gap would be significantly lessened.
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[Then there's the question of "does it work"?]
That reality is further evidence by a second fact: Britons are not safer as a result of disarmament. Consider the following:
Following the enactment of the 1997 handgun ban, violent crime rates rose sharply, and fell below their 1996 level only once in the next 15 years. By 2009, 12 years after the ban,
England’s violent crime rate was the highest in the European Union and nearly five times that of the United States.England and Wales, which are categorized together by Eurostat (the official statistical database of the European Union), have the highest rape rate in the entire EU. In 2015, almost twice as many Britons were raped per 100,000 inhabitants than were Americans.
Rates of theft in England and Wales are also higher than in the United States. In 2015, England and Wales experienced a theft rate of 2,000 thefts per 100,000 inhabitants (including motor vehicle theft).
The rate of “hot burglaries”—where the residents are home during the burglary—is 14 percent in the United States. In the U.K., it is almost 60 percent, and research heavily indicates British burglars, who know that they are unlikely to confront an armed homeowner, specifically target occupied homes, so that homeowners can be forced to retrieve the most valuable objects in the house even if they are hidden.