Half, your observations is flawed and not thought out. First off you say obsession. You don't know who people are that own guns so to say they have an obsession is just a broad paint brush you are using because you don't have an argument for your position. Second no guns does not equal no gun deaths. You in the UK have been castrated so long you don't even know where your collective testicles are kept any more if they even were. There were gun bans in Ireland and that did not stop the IRA did it now. Not to mention you have a crisis with stabbings and the idiot government there has made it illegal to defend yourself against an intruder. Even your cops don't carry and that has had many problems. Its just stupid for police not to be armed. Human life is paramount is such a broad statement its meaningless. What life? Was Charlie Manson's life paramount? If someone is on top of our wife stabbing her after sexually assaulting her is that persons life paramount? All human life is not the same. Just like Murder is not killing. To kill and to murder are not always the same thing. To take a life in defense of your life or others is not murder. That criminal gave up their right to not be shot, stabbed or hit with a hammer in the head the min. they attacked someone.
Also you are alluding to the idea that it will be the wild wild west if people have guns. I feel ten times safer in most Midwest cities than i do in Kahn's Londumb and I have been there a few times. the places in the USA that are degraded dangerous and crime shit holes are places like Minneapolis,Baltimore, Chicago, LA,Boston,NYC places that the liberal idiots have run for many years and are gun free zones. LMAO Liberals can not see how stupid their ideas are. Now we in the USA and around many parts of the world see the liberal idiots doubling down on stupid. let out criminals and don't charge them. In another shit hole city San Francisco where homeless shit on the streets and destroy while the liberal idiots that be give them cart-blanch to do so. They made it not a crime to shop lift under 800 dollars and basically told the criminals its and open city for criminal business. Being liberal is a mental disease.