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You may have missed my post with an apology and reference to the rodney king riots as they posted my posts out of order. Please read it.
Since what I believe you are asking is, assuming that we could implement the exact same policy with the exact same results (and I wasn’t preaching, I was simply pointing out that it doesn’t seem likely) what would be the right thing to do. My answer would be to implement the UK policy, obviously. But I also want to point out that your position is one made from living in a safe environment, but if society broke down, as it does during times of stress on local police forces, of immediacy (no cop there to stop a robbery) and during war, you would be praying for a gun.
we now get into the question of personal vs community rights. Do I have a personal right of protection as opposed to a perceived public hazard? Personally I see this as a halachic/hashkafic issue and as i pointed out already, I dont believe halacha or hashkafa demands such a policy, I Believe rather that hashkafa would actually push toward individual rights bc the bigger picture is decided by G-D.
