Would arming the law abiding solve the problem of gun crime?
No it will not. The Uk average citizen would not know how to shoot in a stress situation and more innocents would die than bad guys.

If citizens actally learned how to use guns, especally for self defence then it shouldont be a problem. Im not proposing that people just be givin a gun and thats it, I think that if they are going to have a gun for self defence then they will have to train regularly.

So, 25 (ish) years on you'll have to forgive me for chuckling when ever someone moans about gun crime and licensing.

I have never mentioned anything about licensing.

I stop short at 'keep and bear arms' bit because it would do nothing to change anything.

And you wonder why you dont have your pistols anymore.

As for you shooting groups and organisations, you are a waste of time!

Proberbly because these organisations have people who partly believed some of the properganda of the anti gun brigade.