[mike-cardwell]

Whilst we're comparing police forces:

"Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero. In 2012 the figure was just one. Even after adjusting for the smaller size of Britain’s population, British citizens are around 100 times less likely to be shot by a police officer than Americans. Between 2010 and 2014 the police force of one small American city, Albuquerque in New Mexico, shot and killed 23 civilians; seven times more than the number of Brits killed by all of England and Wales’s 43 forces during the same period."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/ar...

[GVIrish]

Just because you're unlikely to get shot in the streets by British police, doesn't mean unlawful killings by British police are not an issue.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/dec/03/deaths-police-cust...

Law enforcement in each country have their own issues with accountability and human rights, just in different ways.

[mattmanser]

Have you read that article? It doesn't say what you think it does. It pretty much says only 13 officers in 12 years should have been convicted of foul play.

One a year.

[staunch]

Taking guns away from average citizens is an efficient way to reduce shootings. Taking privacy away from average citizens may prove to be even more effective in reducing all forms of crime. Just think of all the children we'll save!

[ivanca]

So privacy is just as important as guns? straw man.

[res0nat0r]

We have 300 million guns in the USA, of course there are going to be less shootings in the UK vs the USA.