Anyone like to shoot?

[SteveFoerster]

Civilians possessing guns undermines the concept of a free society (I'll get back to this point later).

You'll have to, because as a counter-intuitive unsupported assertion it doesn't do much on its own.

Let's look at Britain where most of their people and police are unarmed, yet they do have an army. While there were 461 “justifiable homicides” committed by U.S. police in 2013, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, there was not a single one in the United Kingdom the same year.

Let's proceed as though both those numbers are accurate. This is only relevant if (1) that fewer Britons legally own guns is the reason that UK police killed fewer people than American police did, and (2) those 461 deaths at the hands of American police all were of people who had guns. The first of those completely discounts relative police culture, and the second is simply factually inaccurate.

Obviously the US cannot take away arms from it's police as there is about a gun per person here! But this is just an example of a gun culture vs. a non gun culture.

If it's obvious that police in the U.S. must have the choice to be armed because they might face armed criminals, why isn't it obvious that Americans who aren't police should have the same choice for the same reason?