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Originally posted by p00hbear
As a Brit member I'm intregued by the whole US gun bearing issue, I don't know anyone who own's a gun and my guess is that 99% of brits don't want to own firearms.
The questions i would like answered are:
When is it legal to fire a weapon with intent to kill?
Can you fire at someone for illegally entering a property?
Is there any control over the storage of guns and ammo?
p00hbear
Originally posted by mr-lizard
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
And i think it's rude to start a thread about guns, so soon after a hundred families have been devastated by a man who used guns to massacre children.
My point stands. We KNOW you can bear arms, we know this....
Originally posted by thedarktower
i wish the Brits where allowed guns, we can't even carry knifes
if we did, i would blast a few folks i didnt like to the stone age
seriously........you got a gun held to you and you still think everyone should be allowed a gun? if that was the case where i stayed, we all would be dead. That is the truth. We get 4 years now for carrying a knife because we are the murder capital of europe without any guns. Just good old alcohol and blades.
I have never understood why americans love guns so much, you are the only western culture to accept this so much, no wonder something like 50,000 deaths a year by folk just shooting folk? WTF?
but if everyone is carrying a gun, then that way you will be safe, right?
When you decide to shoot (the situation meets the criteria for use of deadly force) you always shoot with intent to kill, and keep shooting until they are dead.
Once you suspect a break-in, go to a defensive position within your home (at the head of the stairs to yoru bedrooms-protect your family and call the Police. Do not go on a search and destroy mission or you might get killed. Let them mess up the other part of the home or steal, it's not worth your life. Do not shoot them in the back on the way out. It could simply be you daughter's boyfriend sneaking into the home or your daughter sneaking out (very common).
Originally posted by Freeborn
As a 'Brit' member I fully understand and respect The Right To Bear Arms in the US; it is an inherent part of your culture and I'm sure that if I was an American or lived there then I too would probably take full advantage of that Right.
However, it does both amuse and piss me off when Americans constantly blame all of the UK's ill's on us not having that same Right.
First of all, we don't want it; murder statistics would go through the roof.
It is one of the areas where we differ significantly from the US.
Secondly.
We respect your Right To Bear Arms, please respect our right not to.
Originally posted by p00hbear
As a Brit member I'm intregued by the whole US gun bearing issue, I don't know anyone who own's a gun and my guess is that 99% of brits don't want to own firearms.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
reply to post by neo96
Hilarity?
Ghandi didn't use a weapon.