This UK anti gun thing is very interesting. The English BOR grants the individual right to bear arms. Why then would the UK's ban on handguns be considered legal? What is it in UK society that has lead to people being willing to give up their rights?

And the whole "The USA should seriously rethink their Second(?) Amendment" thing is funny because we got it from you! Our BOR is modeled off of yours.

What it comes down to is the differing ideologies in the US and the UK. Socialist pressures in europe have lead to this dangerous "trust government"  and the really dangerous "trust society" attitudes. Trusing society implies that there is now need to bear arms because it's every citizens duty to respect the law. This assumtion that everything is going to be alright is lunacy. If every citizen was going to trust the law, then no one would have dared to use a handgun to commit a crime. But if society was to be trusted and no one was going to commit any crimes, there would have been no need to ban handguns in the first place.

Now trusting a european government is just crazy. German citizens trusted their governments judgment, and they ended up slaughtering innocent people. They trusted government so much that they never gave a thought about whether or not they were doing the right thing. Is this zombie-like state really what you want your society to be like.

Now most Americans don't want some paternal state doing all our thinking for us. Thus we think for ourselves and bear arms nowing that government should answer to the people. Not the other way around.

There's also one HUGE bonus to Americans and their right to bear arms. Other countries have to think twice before invading us knowing that potentially every citizen in the country could kill you.