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Seeing as you never bothered reading the rest of my post I'll say it again.
Ooops I was posting from my iphone & didnt quite see that....
My apologies.. 😳
America is still in it's teenage years..give it 500yrs they'll be fine.
"Oh hi, my mum says, I hope you haven't got your gun on you she said in her totally unaware kind of way. Well actually... he said, I dare not leave it in the car and opened his bag to display his VIP protection squad tools of the trade.We laughed at this and he lifted the side of the rather large jacket he was wearing to indicate that he was tooled up on the aforementioned packed commuter train too. Useful jackets these he said.
(don't worry, we spoke in a sort of code/intimation way so that we both knew what we were talking about without alarming the rest of the train)."
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I love this forum.
Haven't read all the threads but I guess it is the same old same old arguments. Personally I don't see what the big deal is with owning guns. Not everyone will go crazy shooting each other for no reasons put it this way.
Not all licensed or legal arms are involved in the killings as quite a big chuck comes from ghost guns (illegal imported guns mostly used by gangs, once used ship South to South America as it has become too "hot" to handle in Merica).
Problem is the Democrats keep banging on about getting rid of the legal arms.
I have a feeling at one point in the future Merica will start their own revolution again because of the imposition of certain values.
Ooops I was posting from my iphone & didnt quite see that....My apologies..
Apologies also, I probably didn't need to be quite such an arse about it...
where the Old Bill aren't habitually tooled up with semi-automatic weapons
Where do you live? Armed police are so common these days it's almost surpising not seeing at least one in a group of them.
Some years back, if you frequented a pub in a nearby village, then it was highly amusing to be sitting out on the riverside patio of a summer evening and watch the faces of visitors when a copper walked down from the upper car park with flak jacket, H&K semi-auto carbine and holstered pistol.
However, I'd challenge anyone to find any armed cops on the streets anywhere in Wiltshire, Bath, Bristol or anywhere around the South-west in normal policing.
The officer who had the visitors eyes popping open was a protection officer for Tom King, Minister for Northern Ireland at the time, and an IRA target.
Just got round to watching this.
One word. Scary.
How can a society get to the stage where it's normal to teach kids that carrying a machine that you can use to kill at will is normal? It's absurd!!
I've shot guns on clay pigeon ranges and an indoor range, didn't like either. The feeling of how easy it would be to kill something, someone or yourself didn't sit easy with me at all. I grew up in the countryside so know why people there carry firearms and I'm fine with that, protection of livestock etc. But to have these machines in general circulation is just bonkers.
It's not very often a programme can shock me. Things like holocaust history programmes are so far detached from what I consider normal that they make it easy to detach the emotional side and see the actions of people in history as wrong and never to be repeated. Seeing normal people walking off the street into a shop then walking out with a gun like they were buying a new TV or phone (Tiffany, pink etc 😯 ) genuinely scares me. The UK may have it's faults but our gun control laws are one thing we have definitely got right.
where was this programme?
Channel 4 alpin.
To be honest, the people in the gun shop struck me as far more moderate and considered than a lot of other gun shop employees I have met in the US.
That they actually did background checks, advised people on what to buy properly, recommended the concealed carry training and made them shoot first all spoke volumes about their professionalism. I also liked the way that the first bit of the concealed carry course was straight out asking people if they were prepared to deal with the fall-out of drawing on someone and potentially taking a life. That sould cause people to pase and consider their actions.
The customers on the other hand... Some of them I would have a really hard time trusting with a firearm. Sadly, it is their legal right to own one and it seemed that the owners were doing what they could to make sure they did that part safely.