"Bob Martin" wrote in message
for quite a while. I'll say it once then I'm out of here - I do not want
to live in
a country where guns are freely available - and 90-95% of Brits agree with
me.

But the fact is that you are living in a country where guns are easily
available if not freely available. In Britain and Canada, illegal handguns
can be obtained for relatively small sums of money. In Toronto, Canada this
year, we've had more gun violence than ever before. Getting a permit to own
a handgun is pretty difficult here, but that hasn't stopped the escalation
of shootings. I think most Canadians believe that guns are finding their way
up here from the US.