Politicians Totally Miss Points Of Gun Control, #Illridewithyou

“What happened in that cafe would have been most unlikely to have occurred in Florida, Texas, or Vermont, or Alaska in America, or perhaps even Switzerland as well. Statistically speaking one or two of the victims [would have carried a gun]. That nutcase who held them all hostage wouldn’t have known they were armed and bad guys don’t like to be shot back at. It would have been illegal for them to have had a knife, a stick, a pepper spray, a personal taser, mace, anything like that for self-defence.

I regard that [as] an absolute travesty. To turn an entire population into a nation of victims is just unforgivable in my estimation.”

“I’m convinced from applying common sense and also from the experience of other countries, sadly the United States is the most prominent example, the more guns there are in circulation, the greater likelihood there is that they’re going to be used to kill people because you can never guarantee that a seemingly sane, calm person who’s got a license to hold a weapon can then, not at some time in the future, go berserk and use it… 

We are all shocked and saddened by the terrible events of a few days ago but it’s very important in the wake of that terrible event for us to keep calm and understand what the right responses are but to also understand what the wrong responses would be and I don’t think a right response is to make guns more freely available in the community.”