Rant of the day

Given the number of mass shootings you guys suffer you cannot convince me that the checks are that difficult to get past. Or maybe the perpetrator are just taking somebody else’s guns.

 

Well you guys have made guns unobtainable legally if not for all practical purposes made them illegal and by your own admission there’s still a gun problem so’s there that.

And last I checked, despite all the “preventative measures” over there the UK remains one of the most violent places in Europe.

 

It's obviously not working.

2021 incidents

Mass murders (>=4 people killed): 28
Murders/homicides: 17,385
Children killed: 1,522
Defensive use (killed): 1,235

 

I guess what we are exposing here are the massive cultural differences between our two countries. Not a lot of point in continuing with this, so I have said my piece and am going on radio silence on guns…

 

@beerkat, I'm living in "the cool ol' US of A" and it makes me feel slightly sick, too. Actually, often far more than slightly. I'm "used to this" but that's a sad statement. Maybe a better way to say it is that I feel rather numb to it. And that's even sadder.

 

I agree, Wessa. I've said my piece and am done, too. Living in the U.S., I know that differences of opinion on this issue won't be going away any time soon--certainly not in my lifetime.

 

There’s over 350 million legal guns privately owned in the US that the government even knows about.

If we were the problem you seriously know it.

 

Take a gun to go to the store?
Can’t you even see how wrong that statement is?
It’s too late for change for your country of course but I’d rather be as we are.
How stupid is this? I once had a gun pulled on me when in Texas for not turning left at a junction quicker.
Beyond comprehension.

 

There are numerous cases of people legally carrying handguns who’ve thwarted shootings and other violent crimes in public places… such as stores. In fact it’s more common than you’d think.

So there’s that.

Nice copy/paste job there. Absolute bullshit unless you can post your source.

(edit)- And your copy/pasted stats are all LEGAL owned guns too, I’m sure.

Spare me.

 

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

If all the guns are bought by verified owners and kept safe, where are all the other guns coming from?

That's a rhetorical question. I'm not getting in to another pointless debate.

 

Same place they’re coming from in England… criminals.

You be you, man. “Stay between the lines… the lines are your friend.”

 

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And then there’s that little tidbit. Hypocrite much?

 

Yes, because I actually want to put snipers on motorway gantries to execute people who litter...

 

I know how you like your citations.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhetorical question

 

Backpedaling 101… got it.

 

I know you're smarter than that so you're just digging at me now, which is fine, but it's not going to work. Can we not just agree that we disagree, or have some differences in cultural values on some subjects and get back to the important topic of motorcycles?

 

1st of all any idiot knows you wouldn’t know the first thing to do with any rifle on any occasion. No secret there.

So you just talk mad smack with your sniper bullshit, which I get, dude. It’s not hard. Yet you still express your desire to kill bad guys, which I have the right to do under certain circumstances, something you seem to have an issue with despite the thousands of miles between us.

Or are just a shit talker across the board? Just a fantasy then?

I’m going to go with- shit talker across the board.

 

You're starting to sound a bit crazy, dude...

 

And that more or less has been your knee-jerk dismissive response for 2 or 3 threads now.

“You’re hilarious, you’re boring me,” et al.

Find some new material, dude.