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 Post subject: Have you seen this
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:59 pm 
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Watched the National Rifle Association's response to the recent schoolchildren massacre, absolutely unbelievable to me, your opinion?

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 Post subject: Re: Have you seen this
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:18 pm 
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why is it unbelievable Americans are unshakeable in their belief that they know best trying to talk sense to many Americans is like banging your head against a brick wall !!!

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:22 pm 
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They tried to be clever by saying 'only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun'.

I say stop the bad guy getting the gun is a better way.

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Sussex wrote:
They tried to be clever by saying 'only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun'.

I say stop the bad guy getting the gun is a better way.


we cant stop illegal guns here in our tiny island state, HTF would you stop them in the USA?

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There's no comparison between the US and here.

The US has many thousands of gun related killings every year. Here they are still rare enough to be newsworthy.

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gusmac wrote:
There's no comparison between the US and here.

The US has many thousands of gun related killings every year. Here they are still rare enough to be newsworthy.


The vast majority of gun deaths in the USA are by handguns, not auto or semi-auto weapons

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It kinda says it all when a society needs to have armed guards at a primary school :roll:

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we cant stop illegal guns here in our tiny island state, HTF would you stop them in the USA?

But we do stop them.

I've been alive a reasonable time and I have never seen a real live gun on the streets, other than those being carried by the police.

How do the USA sort out their mess, f*** knows, but getting rid of those automatic things is a start.

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wannabeeahack wrote:
gusmac wrote:
There's no comparison between the US and here.

The US has many thousands of gun related killings every year. Here they are still rare enough to be newsworthy.


The vast majority of gun deaths in the USA are by handguns, not auto or semi-auto weapons


So? :?

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Populations

Finland - 5,387,000
Australia - 22,620,600
England and Wales - 56,000,000
Spain - 47,000,000
Germany - 81,726,000
Canada - 34,500,000
USA - 311,591,917

In Finland people dont meet much.....lol

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gusmac wrote:
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gusmac wrote:
There's no comparison between the US and here.

The US has many thousands of gun related killings every year. Here they are still rare enough to be newsworthy.


The vast majority of gun deaths in the USA are by handguns, not auto or semi-auto weapons


So? :?


The big news stories are all about multiple shootings but its handguns that count for most killings

Calls for banning will start with automatic weapons... when in fact KNIVES kill more people than "machine" guns

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 Post subject: Re: Have you seen this
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Also, hot weather gets blamed for many arguements leading to shootings and the UK is fairly safe from them on that basis

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Cant you let a day pass without proving what a tw*t you are?

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I think it's fairly safe to say that if automatic and semi automatic guns were to be made illegal to have then deaths by them would be reduced. That aside there are non automatic guns that with a little adjustment can be made into automatic weapons, so that would also have to be addressed. Obviously there are always going to be people that break the law in all countries but preventative measure surely must be the best way forward :? Putting armed guards at primary schools is not imo a good idea, I mean if nothing else it'd terrify the kiddies.

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