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Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-18 02:46:07)
totally irrelevant. If you saw guns in the UK you were in a rare minority. Once more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate The UK is way way better for violent crime, murder and gun crime. Even wiki will tell you that
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-18 02:44:14)
no really dude, America is out of proportion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 15:10:02)
what a fucked up place.
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 07:09:10)
I see what you are saying and by no means do I think that simply passing a law tomorrow saying nobody can have guns would solve things. But in this example perhaps it would have stopped things. In this country it would have been way way way harder for someone like that to get a gun. In so many of these situations it is easy to get a gun, so so often they are legally held arms that are easy to get hold of just like in this case. Over the past two years in Glasgow there has been a very direct programme trying to get knives out of the hands of kids in gangs, This ranges from tackling availability to attitude and severe punishment for carrying a blade. The result is that more and more people that would carry do not because of social and legal pressure and it has been working well. I'm sorry if this too sounds like an easy fix that I assume would work for the states, I don't mean it to be. It is just so disheartening to hear so many people react with "well we need more guns then" when this topic comes up. Did nobody see Casualties of war?
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 05:24:39)
You didn't hurt my feelings at all. Yes, I am saying that gun ownership and the attitudes that surround it contribute to the very high homicide rate in the USA.
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 05:10:38)
Also have you noticed how high the USA homicide rate is? esp for how rich a country it is and how big a western English speaking power it is. Why is that do you think? does gun ownership have anything to do with that?
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:59:43)
after just a quick google how about 15,500 accidental shooting injuries. http://www.thesurvivorsclub.org/extreme/surviving-accidents/accidental-shooting but i'm sure you could look further. Look, why are you so determined that you should be allowed to own a handgun?
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:39:02)
Absolutely it's a different question depending on where your country is with gun ownership and crime at the moment. But surely the basic idea must be to try and minimise people having death machines in case thay have to kill someone. Surely if there are guns everywhere you should try to change that as well as keeping people as safe as you can. I'm still not getting where the arms race analogue doesn't fit.
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:34:23)
And you don't see the prevalence of guns as a major contributing factor to that? When people break into a house they almost always want to steal shit, usually for drugs. They don't want to hurt or kill people. If they are pretty sure they are going to walk into a house witha gun nut shouting hands off my VCR and shooting at them they will carry a gun and.......... more people will die.
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:31:14)
@bob Exactly, thats the problem. It is a FACT that if you own a firearm it is more likely to harm you or someone you love than to protect you from ANY physical harm. But everyone thinks that they are responsible enough and hence loads of gun accidents and deaths. Is that not pretty obvious? I think I could handle explosives and despite living in the city I would like to set a small mine on my porch in case of criminals but it would be insane for me to be alowed to do that. Wouldn't it?
Comment on be the type of person that you want to meet (2012-12-17 04:26:05)
So.... try and be someone you would want to shag? I'm not sure I get it
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Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:11:11)
funny, overwhelmingly thats the way it works over here. almost nobody has a gun. You guys think that because 1 person in the country might be killed by a nut jobb then all people should have missiles to shoot nut jobs and that nothing bad will happen as a result of that.
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:05:43)
Yea this is so fucked up all over the place. If they are not putting mentally ill people in with the general prison population and not treating them they are "treating" them in secure hospitals for "as long as is needed".
Comment on When someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute (2012-12-17 04:03:36)
As I said we have armed response units. officers on the beat or doing anything day to day have no guns. If a specific threat (almost always a gun or bomb) comes up armed officers go out to that specific thing. So thats 7000 officers over the whole 65,000,000 person country. As it happens on the few occasions that police do shoot someone over here it is a big thing and frankly they have abused it. How much gun pain happens over there guys? I live in Glasgow, the worst for knife crime and it's nothing compared to the states. Nothing