And what would you suggest?
Consequent strict weapon laws - and a very high barrier for the private use of war weapons.
We lock people up for committing crimes.
Too many people - much too long - in the wrong private institutions.
Throughout the years our liberal judges turned prisons into lowlife playgrounds, so criminals don't have a huge fear of being locked up.
Why should they have fear?
Most of them have been in prison before.
I heard from "the Germanitor" - he's one of your policemen - that his people (="you") have a trend not to give a fair second chance. So what you say here has perhaps partially something to do with reality - but represents in lots of other cases perhaps only a prejudice. I remember in this context someone who got a job after he had been in prison. The police arrested him without any reason to do so for three days and so the result had been he lost this job. Later he had a new job - and again came a warrant of arrest - also without any sense - but this time he fled and asked for help before to be again in a totally helpless situation in jail and to lose again this job. ...
The police are only good AFTER a crime is committed.
Another way to see such a problem is for example the sentence
"A policemen is the first social worker in front of the real problems of a societey." Could be a good idea to listen what real policemen say and to think about what kind of training they really need.
Up to that point you can only defend yourself and family against an attacker.
Why should someone attack you or a member of your family? How high is this risk? How high is the risk to get probems because of the own weapon-fetishism? What makes this all with your complete country? ...
How does one do that against an armed criminal?
I remember in this context that I stepped once - I was very young - between some policemen and a bank robber with my back to the policemen and my face to the robber. Life is life-threatening - but in this case no one had to die.
I'm a black belt in Kenpo.
In what? ... Ed Parkers Kenpo ... Hmmm ... pragmatism in the centre, I guess. I'm not only a friend of pragmatism.
One of the lessons they teach you is there is no reasonable way to defend yourself against a person with a gun.
So it makes sense to make strict weapon laws.
If they have the gun and you don't, you lost that battle.
Maybe. Maybe not. The bible says: "Who takes the gun will die by the gun."
They're either going to seriously injure or kill you, or otherwise take all your personal belongings.
Why should anyone kill me - except he is a Nazi. Since decades I live with the imagination one day I will leave my home and a Nazi is stabbing me in the back. That's not any reason for me to buy a weapon although I am on a death list of the Nazis.