Apparently there was a knife-attack in London, thought to be a terrorist attack. Anyone care to speculate why the attacker didn't use a gun given that "criminals don't care about the law" and "they'll just get guns illegally anyway"?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/05/europe/london-tube-stabbings/
Three people were hurt, one seriously. The attacker was subdued with a taser.
Sure, I'll speculate.
Illegal Gun possession is based on supply and defeating policing of regulations, and race.
But in Canada its (opposite-)race based.
For instance, in Scarborough (Toronto-East GTA) any black man can get a handgun.
They get supplied by friends in the USA.
But local white folk (working class Irish mostly) haven't the talent or connections
to get hold of handguns. The best they can do is buy a pellet-gun at Canadian Tire (Like Home Depot for poor Canadians).
Ammo? forget it.
In Canada our glorious overlords feel too afraid to let Canadians have guns generally.
In fact, its a crime (=felony US) to possess pepper spray (=concealed weapon) or
use it (administer a noxious substance) against a human being.
You 'can' have pepper spray (below a certain concentration) for defence against bears
in rural areas (outside cities like Toronto) or for defence against dogs only.
If you are caught in urban areas you will be charged with concealed restricted weapon,
and if you use pepper spray in self-defence you will be charged with assault and etc.
For 30 years our 'self-defence' rules in the Criminal Code were confusing and self-contradictory,
and impossible to interpret by judges (on purpose to maximize convictions).
They fixed that recently but its not anything like the USA.
So basically if you are black you have easy access to handguns (most blacks in Canada
are immigrants from the USA from the 'underground railroad' days and recent decades).
If you are 'white' you have no access to handguns at all, unless you can get to
the US border and get one across. through Canadian Customs.
I believe there is only one rifle manufacturer in Canada, in Alberta,
and they only make sniper rifles for the military and export.
IN U.K. I suspect that like Canada, guns are as hard to get and rare for whites
as would be a Jamaican passport.