I'm sure if you were willing to settle for 35 hp in a very small car, we could do better than that these days. I mean engine efficiency has increased since then.
Incorrect.
Survived, sure. Traveled in comfort? That I rather doubt.
Difficult to conceal. Pragmatic solution: Keep the rifle in the trunk. Carry a pistol on your person.That's why EV owners need to carry an AK-47...
Because nobody is ever violently attacked in England, or because you drive a gas car and can use the pump to defend yourself?
And yet you were never shot, shot at, or in any danger at all. So the alarm was entirely within your own head and purely emotional.
It's basically a propaganda campaign by those who hate guns and fail to comprehend that you become a defenseless victim if you are unable to protect yourself from criminals who all have guns. Banning guns has never stopped criminals from having them... and it never will.
I was in a restaurant in New York when someone was shot on the other side of the road, the rest of the diners barely flinched. In Arizona, we were sitting outside on a friends front porch when there was gunfire in the distance and two rounds were heard to pass though the area before police arrived and all hell broke loose, so we went inside. Later in Tucson, we were coming out of a club when a low rider drove by and the driver was gesturing out of the door with an AR15 looking gun draped down the side of the car, that might have had something to do with my American host making loud remarks about Latin Americans. Later, they took up us into the Yellow Mountains sightseeing but he brought along a 9mm and an Ar15 so "we can shoot some beer cans boy". On the way back, the Ford Explorer we were in decided it didn't like its left rear tyre being on the rim (this was 1994) and the thing rolled sideways down the road three times. When the Police turned up, one of them said "you been having fun shoot-in up here"...
I'm having a hard time believing you because that concentrated volume of gun-related incidents doesn't actually happen anywhere in the USA. You're just as likely to be struck by lightning as you are to be anywhere near more than one firearm-related incident (unless you're in a deep-blue inner city ghetto...)
Now do knives, vehicular homicides, blunt objects, and other weapons of choice for the people the UK keeps importing who insist upon violence.
That statistic is heavily misleading. The vast majority of those gun-related homicides are from criminals shooting at other criminals (gang warfare), despite our government bending over backwards to try and claim otherwise.
It isn't that we don't want to talk about it, the fact is, we aren't allowed to... in fact actively and legally prohibited from it. Here, I don't think it actually allowed to gather the data.
... and that's why I will never visit the British Isles, despite having a great love for the people and culture of Ireland (as well has ancestry from there!). I refuse to exist anywhere that my speech and can land me in jail for speaking the truth non-violently.
The ignorant knee-jerk reactions are very counterproductive because few want to address the real issue which is CRIME not the instrument used to commit the crime.