To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them. -- Sir Robert Peel, England (1822)

v      What is clearly failing or serves no purpose must be abandoned immediately.
v      Costly interventions that have little to no return value in crime control, prevention or punishment must be abandoned immediately

The police have no duty to protect citizens; our courts have consistently upheld this.  Self-protection and self-defence is everybody's own responsibility unless proof of real danger can be given to the police.  Neither Government nor the police should interfere with people’s common law and Constitutional rights and ability to protect themselves and their property.

The Firearms Control Act needs to be evaluated as a first priority.  The fitness to purpose of this Act needs to be evaluated in terms of world experience and sound research.   The example of the USA needs to be strongly considered in comparison to that of England.  The return value in prevention or punishment of violent crime needs to be urgently established.

There is little doubt in the public mind that this Act has no hope of achieving its stated purpose.  Government must prove beyond any doubt to the public that this Act has no potential to harm or endanger citizens, that it is suitable to purpose or remove it.

v      Free up many thousands of police members who could be better and more efficiently used. 
v      Make available resources that can be put to better purposes and
v      A significant percentage of the police budget that would otherwise be wasted.

There are more than fifteen independent studies in the USA on self-defence that show that citizens achieve a remarkable record of crime prevention with a firearm.  Only one shows a much-reduced figure due to many problems with the manner in which it was conducted and questions asked.  The largest that of Professor Gary Kleck set out to confirm or deny the results of the previous surveys by avoiding the problems of other surveys shows that Americans defend themselves, thus preventing a crime up to 2.5 million times per year.