*Detectorist*?? Is that even a word?.. As in “I’m Deputy Inspectorist Flatfoot of The Yard”?

I’m afraid you’ve completely lost me here.

From your post you appear to be saying that just because you had access to guns, you’d end up shooting someone.

and I couldn’t help thinking how lucky we are in the UK not to have the right to bear arms,otherwise I’d probably be an item on tonight’s news.

So you lack the ability to reason & make logical decisions?

Flixton P47(s?)

Cops & guns (part 1):

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/22527213/leduff-detroit-polices-simulated-purse-snatching-goes-awry

Part 2:
Shoot out in Santa Monica today, 7 dead including the perp.. could have been more when some chump CHP cop drops his shotgun ammo & as he bends down to pick it up (twice).. he sweeps the people in front of him with his gun….. During all the televised drama involving this deal today the local stations have shown Officer Butterfingers dropping him ammo over 50 times… The guy is never going to live this down.

They are known in the US as *Mix Masters*….. named after this device:

If those 12,602 are former gun owners, then by the same token the rest of the population apparently don’t care if they have guns ….