In today's Times, a comment article has been written entitled "Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun?" and claims that "British attitudes are supercilious and misguided".

My answer to the question is a very simple "No, I wouldn't".

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. But people use guns to kill people. The more guns there are in open circulation, the more deaths there are going to be from been shot. A gun makes it very easy to kill. Point, aim, shoot. Bang, they're dead.

The less guns there are in open circulation, the safer I feel.

If everyone has a gun, a criminal with a gun knows this, and will thus shoot to kill, and shoot and kill, far more so than if no-one has - so he knows that no-one can shoot and kill him, and thus doesn't feel a need to strike first.

Yes, if someone goes on a rampage with a gun someone else with a gun can shoot back and stop them - but if guns weren't in such open circulation in the first place, it would be far far harder for that person to get a gun to go on the rampage with.

The more guns that are available, the more people will die. Yes, people still die if guns aren't in open circulation, but far fewer. Through guns comes death. It's as simple as that. And that is why I feel safer with gun control - because if I have a gun, so does the person behind me, and that scares me far more than if someone starts shooting I can't shoot back.