Yes, but...

Angryteen has put forward an evidence-based argument against gun control. As you know, I am quite sympathetic to such arguments. As a former RAFVR marksman and winner of various trophies for my alma mater who has nevertheless managed to avoid falling into a spiral of gun and gang crime, I don't regard firearms as either unnecessary or intrinsically immoral.

However, I have to admit that I began to doubt that one day a few weeks ago. That day was hard work, and it ended with a particularly long and difficult journey via the M25 in that blistering heat that we typically see for one day a year, the day on which the car's aircon suddenly dies.

Just to make the day perfect, the journey was punctuated by an endless series of lane-hogging, finger-wagging, lane-straddling pondlife who had somehow acquired driving licenses despite not being capable of operating an indicator stalk or, indeed, an accelerator pedal - 98% of whom now owe their lives to the fact that I did not have a loaded handgun with me.