I don't pretend to know what effect allowing UK citizens to own guns would have. I don't particularly care, either, since I have no intentions of living in the UK, ever.

What interests me is the belief that some seem to hold; that the primary function of any given gun is to kill.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.

For instance, I know that many of us here in this subforum own many guns. Most are kept locked away, and only one or two are regularly carried or stored at the ready in case of a home invasion--those few guns have the function of killing in self or home defense. The others... not so much. Range toys or sharpshooting tools or hunting tools would better be used to describe the rest of them. I don't understand why some people seem to be concerned when some of us openly admit to liking the feeling of shooting a firearm. What's wrong with liking power? Because, when you come down to it, that's what a firearm is--power.