Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

Originally Posted by straightrazorheaven

I am sat here, thinking ... AMERICA NEEDS MORE TEA! I can't help myself sorry lol.
Having been to USA, being about to marry an American, and having american friends, and living in what some would call "the hood" in the USA. I don't see why
the crime rates are so different. I mean you guys have an attitude that differs from Brits, not bad (I actually like it), bolder, but not murderous or anything that I think would cause a huge discrepency in crime rates. Do you have any ideas on why those rates are so different. It is easy for somebody from a gun prohibition state to say it's guns. It's also easy to say it isn't guns. I just wonder what you think the reason is?

All I can say is, thank the powers that be you blokes have less guns. I'd hate to imagine the mayhem that would be caused at a football game! The spectator violence is already pretty grim I've heard. And knife crime is a serious problem too by all accounts. I guess if they finally manage to get the crims to stop carrying knives you blokes will have to ban cricket as well. Can't have just anyone owning a cricket bat to bludgeon people with afterall.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Most criminals aren't very smart (that's why the prisons are bursting at the seams) and they don't think too good. They take the easiest way and copy what other criminals do which seems to work until it doesn't work anymore. Over the years the types of armament they choose to carry has increased not because they just decide to carry a revolver instead of a baseball club or a shotgun instead of a pistol but because they act like the rest of us. They perceive a threat to their lives and activities and meet the treat by going upstream. That's just the way it is.

Just think for a moment, if a typical thug accosts you in the street demanding your wallet and he knows you are unarmed he's gonna be cool because he is in control and has nothing to worry about and will get what he wants and leave because if he shoots you the chances are increased he will get caught and spend more time in prison. If he accosts you and he knows you may be armed the chances are he will be very uncool and maybe shoot first and at the least relieve you of your gun. You say no that won't happen? What you gonna do draw on a guy who already has a bead on you?

I'm not making a value judgement here and of course the guy who accosts you may be a nut who just shoots you dead for fun, you never know but the odds are in your favor.

Just remember there are 2 sides to everything and everything can be spun to say what you want it to say true or not.

I'm a firm believer in having a sense of situational awareness...Goes well with having a gun too.


Mick

Originally Posted by Crotalus

No corporal punishment. No prayer in school. Education geared to pass the state tests instead of learning the 3 R's. No pledge of allegiance. Touchy feely course curriculum. Passing students that still can't read just to get rid of them. Passing kids on compassionate grounds instead achievement.

In short, the liberals are in control.

Not that, I meant the sex and drugs bit. As to the other stuff, that has changed too here. I am not too keen on the lack of discipline/respect or the idea of just moving kids along but then I am a Liberal. OTH what do I know, I went to HS to keep out of the rain and still only lasted 1 and 1/2 years.

Bob

This thread is a dead end, Go Niners/and raiders,unsubing.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

This thread is a dead end, Go Niners/and raiders,unsubing.

MAS TEQUILA!!!

Originally Posted by Wullie

MAS TEQUILA!!!

Law'n'Orden'nFREEBEER!!!

If the thread is dying.... I LIKE TRAINS!!!!!!!!

For all you that have shown disdain for the 2nd Article of our Constitution, it is there for one simple reason, that reason is found within the Declaration of Independence. The Cliff Notes version is thus, "the right of the people to alter or abolish the government.". Any and all other benefits are residual.

Our founders knew their history and the nature of "human nature", they knew the corrupt are drawn to power and will try in every way to subvert someone else's liberty to enrich and empower themselves. They knew how fragile this "great experiment" was, in may ways I wish they were here to see it now and in many other ways I am glad they can not.

For all of it's flaws and all of our foibles, I would not trade it for all of the King's tea.

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

If the thread is dying....

It wasn't an act of gun violence.

This thread is dying ?! In that case...I would like two large Chik-fil-a's with curly fries and a super Cola to go please . Oh....wrong thread ?

Originally Posted by BobH

Not that, I meant the sex and drugs bit. As to the other stuff, that has changed too here. I am not too keen on the lack of discipline/respect or the idea of just moving kids along but then I am a Liberal. OTH what do I know, I went to HS to keep out of the rain and still only lasted 1 and 1/2 years.

Bob

so I guess you're not splitting any atoms in your spare time are you?