Does she work or study? Does she or will she pay taxes?, Is she hurting anyone?... If the answers are yes, yes and no... then I don't give a damn about what she believes she is... It's her life, I don´t care, I will treat her as she asks me to treat her.

Is she a cat? No she is not,

Is she a person who wants to be treated as a cat? : Yes she is!, and that is the reality inside her brain, it is a REALITY... R.E.A.L.I.T.Y she is a person who wants to be treated as a cat, therefore I will do so because she is asking nicely, and because she is not hurting anyone

Guns don't have stopping power, once the bullet is shot...

Criminals arm up to protect themselves from the government and rivals

Disarming the government and dismantling the weapon industry is a recipe for peace

Interestingly there are no school-shooters in the UK, that's because there are no gun shops on every corner

Guns and bullets cost money and crime is a business, also the sentence for robbery is a lot lower than the sentence for murder. See crime, as everything else works under the law of profit-versus-risk. Any individual crime is better performed with lower costs and lower risks. So, saving bullets and sparing lives is actually better for a criminal; guns are a last resort in case they have to open their way against idiots shooting at them. If they knew those idiots won't shoot lethal stuff, they'd probably save the guns and bullets and get more profit from their crimes.

No, weapons offer a remote chance (you said it) to "shoot first" to a target who, in most cases, was willing to shoot in the first place because he felt threatened by the gun of the owner.

Any PPW holder is perceived as a threat and target by other PPW holders, PPW owners own weapons having their targets in mind since the moment they buy a weapon, those targets are other PPW owners! It is not an assumption

Guns do not discourage criminals, they encourage them to get more and more powerful guns. Because they think guns protect them, that's how criminals think

"the presupposed premise that the PPW holder is already a target and there would little or no chance the weapon being of any use once the assassin had taken his/her shot."

How is that a "presupposed premise"????? Please do explain how can a gun stop a bullet that's already on its way. And, yes, people with guns are mostly already targeted. Criminals with guns got the guns in the first place due to the stupid belief that they would be "protecting themselves" against other people with guns. The original idea inside the criminal mind to buy a gun is to use it again anyone else tryin' to shoot at them.

"vestige of a chance"... precisely

"This would discourage most criminals and send them off to find an easier target."

No, gun threat towards criminals is what encourage them to get guns, because the criminal mind believes in the "protection" of guns.

Locking a house is not only cheap and easy, it is extremely efficient, much more than any gun. You seem to think the Hollywood way: if hold a gun you'll win because you're the "good guy". But no, using a gun is taking your chances, it's not certain you'll hit the target, and once you fired you'll get a fire response, with higher probabilities than if you had never shot in the first place. You could die in the gunfight, and therefore leave your family unprotected, your gun did not resolve anything then. if you really think you live in the old wild west you and your family should be wearing bulletproof vests not guns. Guns will attract bullets, the vests will atually stop them.

I think the governments should be the first to quit having lethal arsenals, and rather switch to advanced non-lethal weapons to stop criminals. Then criminals would follow by not feeling the need to "protect themselves" with guns against guns.

Multiculturalism (not "multiculturism") is the only thing that has ever existed in history. The Greeks were multicultural, The Romans: multicultural. The Muslims: Multicultural, The Spanish: Multicultural, The British: Multicultural. In the past, no one used to keep an actual record of what was "ours" and what was "theirs"; there were no passports, no customs offices at the airports, that's how it used to be for thousands of years, you could live wherever you wanted, you could work wherever you wanted. Migration control has only existed for about a century, and nobody likes it already... I don't think it will last

Thing is, if you visit the USA you should be more concerned about white supremacists than Muslim terrorists. But the truth is that the media has been able to turn the popular concern the other-way-round and people are, in reality, more scared about Muslim terrorists and less about the more likely threat in the US (white supremacists).