!2 year old shoots home intuder

[Marc]

. Handguns aren't for hunting anyway, they are for target, competition and self defense shooting.

Exactly, and that is why hand guns in the United Kingdom are illegal, with except to a very limited profession, and even then they have to be stored in certained licenced areas.
And quite rightly so.

Why would the average person need an easily concealed hand gun?
1 reason only... to kill another human being.

America has the highest gun crime on the planet...

The UK has joint lowest with New Zealand and Japan.
All 3 have strict gun controls.
Out side of London I have never even seen an armed Policeman, yet I holidayed in America last year, and was pulled by the police because my hire car had a brake light not working, and they held us at gun point.
It shocked us enough to swear never to go to America again.