Mumbai hostages

[Alf W]

Frankly anyone should have right to own firearm to defend their house - concealed carrying of firearms should require advanced license and not for everyone, but having a gun in your own house to defend yourself seems totally sensible to me.

I think that speaks for itself.

[EternalOptimist]

AtW, I think you might be on to something, but allowing 15% of the population to regularly carry firearms, in order to create uncertainty in the minds of attackers, would never be allowed.
A better way to create uncertainty would be to allow 15% of hotels and schools to randomly arm their guests or pupils.

So you could ring up the maitre D at the Waldorf and say, 'ok, it's your week to be armed, come down to the station and pick up your armalites - NO you can't have the bazooka's, last you had those you launched a dawn raid on the ETAP, and caused several millions of pounds worth of improvements'

[TimberWolf]

AtW, I think you might be on to something, but allowing 15% of the population to regularly carry firearms, in order to create uncertainty in the minds of attackers, would never be allowed.
A better way to create uncertainty would be to allow 15% of hotels and schools to randomly arm their guests or pupils.

So you could ring up the maitre D at the Waldorf and say, 'ok, it's your week to be armed, come down to the station and pick up your armalites - NO you can't have the bazooka's, last you had those you launched a dawn raid on the ETAP, and caused several millions of pounds worth of improvements'

Why not just cut out on all the inefficiency and shoot every 15th guest?