Posted on 12/06/2011 9:27:02 PM PST by Righting
Dhimmitude lert.
Her boyfriend tried to defend her???? He needs to hoist less pints, and push up more kilos.
Here in United States of America, you know, the one with a 2nd Amendment, he could have used deadly force on this crew.
You should be so lucky to have concealed carry laws. They are all that keep us free. You are toast.
“You should be so lucky to have concealed carry laws. They are all that keep us free. You are toast.”
People have been forecasting the end of Albion for several millennia now but we manage to struggle on.
Guns work in the US, they don’t work in the UK. I’ve lived for years in both. In the UK we’ve never had a culture of handgun ownership and we’ve never had an armed police force which is why 14 people a year in the UK die from shooting compared to 10,000 in the US. I’m really not trying to score points, you just can’t compare apples with oranges.
As for judges, it seems yours have much the same disease as ours - a pregnant woman attacked by a group of feral black girls on a bus causing her to abort her baby get off virtually unpunished while anyone on the bus with a ‘concealed carry’ ignores the situation.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/112037029.html?tab=video&c=y
Maybe we’re all toast.
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If some anglo Brits got together and beat down some muslim misogynist savage they would get life sentences without parole.
Great thinking. Thanks.
Comparing the US and UK gun death statistics is comparing apples with oranges. Most of those murdered would have been murdered with something else if guns hadn't been available. The murder rate in the US is 5.5 per 100,000 compared to 1.4 per 100,000 in the UK. But before you point to this as proof of America's gun laws being responsible for this, consider that the UK crime rate for everything except murder is higher than in the US, including crimes such as robbery and rape. How much lower would this be if many of those victims had guns? Also consider that Countries such as Switzerland, which have a gun ownership rate comparable to that of the US, has a lower murder and general crime rate than either the US or the UK. Frankly, I'd rather we had guns and that we hanged murderers like we did back in the good old days of 100 years ago. When, Britain had less crime and less murder despite having gun laws and a general outlook on life that made modern day Texas look like a state full of limp-wristed, damp-eyed, gun-hating liberal pu55ies...
“Comparing the US and UK gun death statistics is comparing apples with oranges. Most of those murdered would have been murdered with something else if guns hadn’t been available. The murder rate in the US is 5.5 per 100,000 compared to 1.4 per 100,000 in the UK. But before you point to this as proof of America’s gun laws being responsible for this, consider that the UK crime rate for everything except murder is higher than in the US, including crimes such as robbery and rape. How much lower would this be if many of those victims had guns? Also consider that Countries such as Switzerland, which have a gun ownership rate comparable to that of the US, has a lower murder and general crime rate than either the US or the UK. Frankly, I’d rather we had guns and that we hanged murderers like we did back in the good old days of 100 years ago. When, Britain had less crime and less murder despite having gun laws and a general outlook on life that made modern day Texas look like a state full of limp-wristed, damp-eyed, gun-hating liberal pu55ies...”
You completely missed my point. Guns work in the US, they don’t in the UK. The UK has never been dis-armed because we were never armed so our police have never been routinely armed. Comparing general crime levels between the UK and US also doesn’t work because most people in the UK live in cities. Compare US city crime levels with the UK crime levels and you get a different picture. Compare UK rural crime with US rural crime and again, the picture changes. I’m pro-gun and own three firearms legally, but trying to conpare the UK and US is pointless when it comes to guns.
Presonally I think gun control in the US is a very bad thing and introducing gun control will increase deaths, but you can’t apply the same to the UK.
Britons have never been armed? 100 years ago there was no gun control in Britain, anyone could buy a gun whenever they wanted, and many people used to walk around with one in their pockets, and society managed to tick over and our police could still do their jobs without being armed. Better yet, the murder and general crime rate was much lower as well. Although other factors such as the fact that judicial punishments for crimes great and small were a lot stiffer back then, and the fact that The Britain of 1911 didn’t suffer from moral relativism like it does now also probably paid a large part.
“Britons have never been armed? 100 years ago there was no gun control in Britain, anyone could buy a gun whenever they wanted, and many people used to walk around with one in their pockets, and society managed to tick over and our police could still do their jobs without being armed.”
100 years ago in Britain there was gun control, namely the 1903 Pistols Act which was then followed up by the 1920 act. You are right however that anyone could buy and own a gun, the fact is hardly anyone actually did. In 1902 the Birmingham Proof House (the largest in the UK) only proofed a total of 37,000 handguns and that included the military requirement for officers purchasing their own pistol. Handgun ownership has always been tiny in the UK even compared to continental Europe, let alone the US. There is no culture of handgun ownership here which is why we have no gun rights organisation and there is no national debate on gun ownership, because hardly anyone wants one, rightly or wrongly. This is a democratic nation with a strong history of forging its’ own path and if the British people wanted handguns they would form a party and change the law so that they had them.
So as I say, I’m an enthusiastic gun-onwer, but my countrymen simply aren’t by and large interested in them. If they become so, they will change the laws.
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