Quote Originally Posted by Expat
In 1996 he drew sharp criticism when he said a gun was no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. The comment came in the wake of the massacre of 16 children and their teacher by a gun-toting psychopath in Dunblane, Scotland.
Well, this is one example of how those remarks may be not as bad in the context when they were uttered. I was living in London at the time and I remember the discussion.

After said massacre, there was an increased pressure by some groups to ban handguns in the UK, which happened when Labour formed the government under Blair.

At the time, in an interview, Philip was basically warning against banning "everything" because of such events. He said, more or less, "suppose a madman with a cricket bat would invade a school and start killing children with it, which he could do very easily -- are we going to ban cricket bats?"

He was using Ni, Te, and not caring about Fe. Classic INTp remark.