Originally Posted by Katie
There need to be better licensing systems on firearms as to who can have them...thus reducing the idiots that have them, but not restricting the right to protect yourself...
The gun laws over here are mental too, nobody is allowed them so the only people with them are the people who you'd need to arm yourself against anyway...same with knives or anything..I'm not saying everybody carry a gun...but surely certain members of society could be trusted with them...hell, what about the olympic sportsmen who have to train abroad to avoid breaking laws here regarding the automatic rifles?
A lot of the gun laws only protect you against people who own a gun but probably wouldn't use it...they don't protect you against people who'd shoot you with a gun whether it's legal or not as they want to kill you which is always illegal anyway so why would they be bothered if owning the gun is an offence...catch 22..
Hit the nail bang on the head there.
The more they fcuk about with the gun laws in this country the faster the increase in gun crime.
The only people affected by those laws are those who obey them. something very wrong with that situation.
We cannot go the way the Americans have, people have been far too brainwashed for that to work, people now truly belve that guns are evil, and ignore the fact that its the cunt pulling the trigger thats doing the harm. We cant continue to ban firearms as that is OBVIOUSLY not working.
The only thing left to do is EDUCATE people. and PUNISH people who, once educated, continue to abuse the system.
Guns are not bad. PEOPLE are bad. and if someone want to kill you theyll kill you, whether it be a legally held firearm, a banned weapon, or a bloody meat cleaver.
The only reason gun crime is so high profile is because of media induced hysteria following some very high profile incidents (and i do not detract from what happened in any way, merely the way its reported) and subsequent government fuckups, errrr, solutions.
If we didnt make these twats think guns were all that then they probably wouldnt bother. now they think theyre cool, and they know theres fuck all chance of getting done of course theyll go shooting.
Ive been lucky enough to be around firearms most of my life, my job now means I come into contact with them regularly. As a result I'm not afraid of guns, but I am very aware of the consequences of misuse.
Righty, a little bit of a rant, and completely off the point i was actually intending to make, which is
DONT compare Americans to the rest of the world when it comes to guns and gun crime, they have a fucked up system based on their "rights" whereas many countries with MORE firearms per head have considerably LESS problems. As already pointed out the Canadians are a good example, and they only live 2 minutes away
( reckon its all the frenchies in canada surrendering thier weapons instead of shooting them, bound to have low gun crime when they dont shoot
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