Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.
Exactly. The government is NOT and NEVER is the solution.
You cannot control morality and personal choices. Until Minority Report becomes a reality, you will not stop crimes from happening, and pressing your judicial finger on the non-actions of law-abiding citizens only leads to a worse quality of life which breeds criminal activity.
But the "progressive lefts" that are arguing for ludicrously strict and/or total banishment of gun rights probably look at those statistics and say, "Well, if you are robbed, at least you weren't murdered." Or "rape is a horrible crime that our academic psychologists are trying to cure, but at least 20 school children weren't massacred once every 100 years."