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Sounds to me like your 'happy to be gun-banning society' just had another 'gun massacre', no?
Originally posted by Essan
Originally posted by mamabeth
reply to post by Essan
Guns are like potato chips,you just can't have one!
Since I don't have a male reproductive organ,are you
suggesting that I have a small brain,hummm?
Do you live in England? I'm talking about this country which is very different. We've never had a culture of owning guns for defence (although the upper classes did tend to own pistols back in the 18th century).
Originally posted by blupblup
That's how we deal with our "Threats" and fights over here.... not shooting someone in an argument, or grabbing the gun because someone beats you up.
The point is... in this country, the UK, you have more chance of winning the lottery than you do of being shot and killed.
[edit on 3/6/10 by blupblup]
Originally posted by mamabeth
reply to post by blupblup
A question for you?
Do the U.K. citizens really feel safer with a gun ban,
or are they duped into thinking they are safer?
Originally posted by KILL_DOGG
I carry to protect my life and the lives of my family, not so I can "whip it out" everytime I get into a scrape or have some road rage. That's what you hear about in the MSM because it makes for a good story. You don't hear about those of us that simply protect our families with a gun because it doesn't make for good ratings.
Just my 2 cents.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Reply to post by Auntie Matter
Can you guanrantee me nobody will have a gun?They still show up in the hands of criminals in countries with absolute bans.
Can you gurantee me nobody will fashion a gun from metal and combustable material?
When you can absolutely guarantee that and in the case some individual does happen to have a firearm and does use it to kill me your guarantee brings me back to life I might consider the possability of not having one "just in case".
Until you can make that gurantee the notion of "rather nobody has one" is moot because despite your wishes somebody will have one.
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Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Reply to post by blupblup
The Olympic shooting team just wantsto use a gun at a range. So why do they have to train outsodeof the country if it's not illegal or banned as you say? Is the info I read wrong? They don't go to other countries to train because of legality?
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Originally posted by butcherguy
Your cops are armed, right?
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Reply to post by blupblup
The Olympic shooting team just wantsto use a gun at a range. So why do they have to train outsodeof the country if it's not illegal or banned as you say? Is the info I read wrong? They don't go to other countries to train because of legality?
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After reading your post, it sounds like you are duped.
Originally posted by blupblup
Originally posted by mamabeth
reply to post by blupblup
A question for you?
Do the U.K. citizens really feel safer with a gun ban,
or are they duped into thinking they are safer?
There is no duping...
Well will guys get it through your heads and stop believing all the MSM bollocks about the UK.
We are not nannied on a daily basis, we are not sheep.... we are not uninformed or duped...
We just don't like guns.... not because we are told to not like them, but because we don't like them.
We weren't a country founded on guns and gun ownership.... we didn't all love cowboys and all want to shoot the baddie.... we don't all think it's Un-British to not want a gun...
Our nations are clearly fundamentally different.
You think carrying guns solves problems, we think carrying guns creates them...
Even better!
Originally posted by Essan
Originally posted by butcherguy
Your cops are armed, right?
Not in the Cumbrian countryside! Why would they be?
Though plenty of locals do have guns.
Originally posted by KILL_DOGG
I guess being an American, I can't fathom a society that doesn't want guns. It's pretty alien to me. But, America is not the focal point of the earth so I guess I'm being pretty narrow minded there.