Well, it's understandable....he lives in England.
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Should gun ownership be legalised in the UK?
- Thread starter TheSunscientist
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McBell
Unbound
Quick question. As an American what percentage of your fellow human beings do you think are so dangerous that they need to be locked up and kept away from society. Is it like 1%, or is it more or less?
McBell
Unbound
oh what the hell.
Lets say 0.023%
Then why is nearly 10% of the American population currently locked up in prisons?
McBell
Unbound
How the hell would I know?
Perhaps you forgot your own question?
As an American what percentage of your fellow human beings do you think are so dangerous that they need to be locked up and kept away from society. Is it like 1%, or is it more or less?
McBell
Unbound
How many of your alleged 10% are in for life?
I am not an American. And I don't tend to trust them, at least not with guns.
McBell
Unbound
What I find most interesting is how many gun permits/licenses there are and thus how many people are legally carrying handguns and look ma, no issues outside the occasional person freaking out because they saw a gun.
I wouldn't say there are no issues, there are some issues. In fact I would say there are an awful lot of issues.
McBell
Unbound
Really?
What part of the USA are you in?
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
.....speak for yourself........
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
........... hello Revolting.....
I've got me garden fork, you know..... and I can even dig lug worms with it!
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I shot at Bisley! Lee Enfield No3.
And I was invited to represent England at the Montreal Olympics in 76 at 'running boar'. Couldn't go..... wife very ill..
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Oh... I don't know..,.... we don't need to take our gun wit us when we walk the dog!
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Quite exciting! I never got to use a Lee Enfield though, we had the 7.62 self loading rifle ( SLR ), an FN variant I think. Did you ever do falling plate?
Years later I joined a gun club to do target shooting, but I got bored as it was an indoor range and everything was much too close. And they used telescopic sights, what a bunch of sissies!
Ultimatum
Classical Liberal
What is the question: "Should gun ownership be legalised in the UK"? Guns are legal here. See the above illustration on UK rifle legality. Sure, you need a license for all of these, and yes, you need to cross many ts and dot many is: but what is wrong with this?
It would be absolutely reckless to just allow ANYONE to buy a gun. Could you imagine the devastation that would cause? Just look at America: around 33,000 people are killed by guns a year. This includes devastating school shoot-outs and terror acts.
Why allowing an on/off button for life to be freely bought and distributed by the masses is a "right" in a first world country is beyond me. There are more cons than pros for total gun freedom and that wraps it up for me.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Quite exciting! I never got to use a Lee Enfield though, we had the 7.62 self loading rifle ( SLR ), an FN variant I think. Did you ever do falling plate?
Years later I joined a gun club to do target shooting, but I got bored as it was an indoor range and everything was much too close. And they used telescopic sights, what a bunch of sissies!
Hope you had a merrier Merry Christmas than me. I had the digusting-body variation of flu..... lovely!
Lee Enfield No 3 .303 with Parker Hale sight. I was badly advised and had a screw-in lens fitted to my sight to correct and an incorrectable level of astigmatism for my right eye (how daft is that?), and there-an-then decided to shoot left handed with specs because my left eye is better and I had always shot with it, left handed.
The 'experts' had told me to do the right-eye thing..... bloody idiots. I became quite good at working the bolt left handed.
I also shot Essex/Sufolk competition in small bore with a martini action and did quite well.
No... I never shot falling plate, but as mentioned earlier I shot running bore with some success. The targets traversed at two speeds, 15mph and 25mph, and the rifles were semi-automatic with telescope sight. Shooting left handed my left to right shots were just about perfect but right to left were my weakness. In fact .... for the rest of my life I would be very good at anything moving left to right....
Although right handed I shoot the bow, catapult, rifle and shotgun left handed, and shot pistol (70-80's) right handed. What a mess....... the joys of astigmatism.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
What is the question: "Should gun ownership be legalised in the UK"? Guns are legal here. See the above illustration on UK rifle legality. Sure, you need a license for all of these, and yes, you need to cross many ts and dot many is: but what is wrong with this?
It would be absolutely reckless to just allow ANYONE to buy a gun. Could you imagine the devastation that would cause? Just look at America: around 33,000 people are killed by guns a year. This includes devastating school shoot-outs and terror acts.
Why allowing an on/off button for life to be freely bought and distributed by the masses is a "right" in a first world country is beyond me. There are more cons than pros for total gun freedom and that wraps it up for me.
Good post.
One type of pistol which is allowed here is the black-powder can 'n' ball revolver. I watched some enthusiasts shooting these about a decade ago.
An American RF member unwittingly put finger on spot over all this, some time back. We were discussing cycling in fairly lighthearted way when he posted a deeply serious 'important point', telling cyclists to go in groups, with a long list of precautions to take during any cycle expedition. There's your difference. One of our neighbours cycles on her own daily to Canterbury using a disused rail-track ......now a cycle woodland ride. Could she do that in America? Nah! She'd need to be packing a bloody gun to even go shopping!
I would call that 'perpetual gun-trauma'