Reply to: Effing Americans and guns

[Waldorf]

Nothing will change in the USA, they are too addicted to their guns, people will forget and buy a new gun, very sad really.

[BrilloPad]

NRA calls for end to childhood obesity by putting McDonalds in every school

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Piers Morgan: Thousands petition for deportation

Please don't deport Piers. We don't want him back thanks.

[MyUserName]

Aprons, goats and funny handshakes.

It was after this book that even his most die hard fans admitted C S Lewis had lost it.

[minestrone]

Derrick Bird? Moat?

Aprons, goats and funny handshakes.

[Hawk]

If the rules were implemented correctly then Dunblane would not have happened, he should not have had those guns and the reasons why we will never know officially as they have been locked away for 100 years. I think we can all guess why.

Derrick Bird? Moat?

[minestrone]

If the rules were implemented correctly then Dunblane would not have happened, he should not have had those guns and the reasons why we will never know officially as they have been locked away for 100 years. I think we can all guess why.

[darmstadt]

Guns are banned in Germany too but it still doesn't stop this type of thing.

[Hawk]

You're right - few and far between. One from memory though: Dunblane school massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was as a result of the Hungerford massacre before this, that we then had the strictest firearms laws in the world, yet still this (dunblane) happened. The the laws were tightened up further, and yet that Cumbrian went postal.

If we had laws like the Yanks, we'd be worse, for we're angrier people, imo. At the moment, if you just hold one round of Ammunition, you can go to jail.

[Mich the Tester]

Would you leave an assault rifle and ammo lying around someone that you felt a need to give that warning about?

an American

[Ignis Fatuus]

The UK has violence too. What it rarely has is massacres: those are not committed by criminals, but by nut jobs with access to serious weaponry.

In this case a woman with a "survivalist's" collection of guns left them unlocked around a son who was already known to be crazy: she had once warned his babysitter never to turn his back on the boy, even to go to the bathroom. Would you leave an assault rifle and ammo lying around someone that you felt a need to give that warning about?

[lilelvis2000]

No, I don't think that's true. The risks are different. In the UK people bottled or stabbed by chavs or their houses get burgled, while in the US people get shot. Both are pretty fooked up societies with their own particular flavour of fook up.

Agree though that banning guns in the US is probably a waste of time as there'll still be so many in circulation it'll have no effect. But that dickhead on Piers Morgan program (not Piers Morgan, the other dickhead) thinks it's smart to give teachers guns. Great; we could hold a sweepstake for the next school shooting to be committed by a teacher.

And when giving teachers the gun..and one of them goes postal one day, they'll have to hire blackwater..and when that guard goes postal.... you know where this is headed don't you?

[Mich the Tester]

The US is overall a safe country - safer than the UK any day.

No, I don't think that's true. The risks are different. In the UK people bottled or stabbed by chavs or their houses get burgled, while in the US people get shot. Both are pretty fooked up societies with their own particular flavour of fook up.

Agree though that banning guns in the US is probably a waste of time as there'll still be so many in circulation it'll have no effect. But that dickhead on Piers Morgan program (not Piers Morgan, the other dickhead) thinks it's smart to give teachers guns. Great; we could hold a sweepstake for the next school shooting to be committed by a teacher.

[lilelvis2000]

I'm not a fan of Piers Morgan but he's right on that. 'It's down to idiots like you...Mr Pratt'.

The US is overall a safe country - safer than the UK any day. In this specific case the mother screwed up by not locking up her weapons. Besides, the US is too far gone on guns to think that banning them will have an effect.

[Mich the Tester]

As a laugh I thought I'd pop this on.
Piers Morgan resorts to name calling after losing Gun Control debate !!! - YouTube

I'm not a fan of Piers Morgan but he's right on that. 'It's down to idiots like you...Mr Pratt'.