Originally Posted by
devidee
London has seen a 44% increase in murder, a 18% increase in rape, a 21% increase in knife crime offenses and a 23% increase in shootings year-over-year.
London has some of the strictest guns laws on the planet.
Mumbles himself posted a stat that the UK has a far higher ratio of occupied-home-invasion robberies versus empty-home-burglaries, compared to the US.
So basically it shows that burglars in the US are largely scared of running into a gun if they break into a house, so they try to avoid the issue by breaking in when nobody's home. In the UK, there isn't such fear, so robbers are brazen enough to break right in with occupants there.
Nobody wants their house broken into, but if you're unarmed, you sure as hell would prefer it to happen when you're gone as opposed to home and in physical danger.
That stat by itself shows that homeowner gun ownership protects everyone -- even those who don't own guns -- because criminals don't know which homes have guns and which don't.
Regarding the schools, I think they need a version of "see something, say something", so the kids most likely to commit such shootings can be examined more closely, and the parents warned if necessary. That won't stop these entirely, but I think in many cases if someone just warned the parents that there was a suspicion of trouble coming, and to make sure guns were all inaccessible, that might prevent some of these.