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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
have a look and see how many properties with armed owners were broken into, genius..
That is a bit of a narrow view, which probably applies to your neck of the woods.
I figured you applied to the category I mentioned above..
What you don't seem (or want) to understand is that thousands of people have guns here and you can still get a license, it's a matter of culture.
you're looking at numbers without taking demographics and different cultures I'm afraid. But as you said, you don'y really care for this topic, so why you keep on posting your hysterical wuss talk about guns?
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*sigh*. Here we go again. You are clearly incapable of having a reasonable debate without insulting people with derogatory comments, I honestly don't know how you get away with it.
I think this is* due to a lack of any cogent argument, based on facts.
I don't appreciate having aspersions cast upon my intelligence with your derogatory 'Genius' remark, nor being (inaccurately) called a 'hysterical wuss', which is laughable. Stop it.
This 'Genius' did however look at the facts, and found that 'Korea Town' in LA was massively looted and damaged, despite residents banding together with an arsenal of weapons. I also found that truckloads of shops were looted whether the owner was armed or not. Multiple incidents were recorded of the armed Koreans actually
shooting at each other in the confusion, which can very easily happen even amongst trained soldiers not to mention civvies....So your confidence in 'Charles Bronson' is sadly misplaced. A young girl named Latasha Harlins was also killed by a Korean shop owner, who had nothing to do with the looting at all. Others were injured.
If shoot outs at the 'OK Corall' are your thing, great.
I'd argue that if you live in a society were you feel it is necessary to buy an assault rifle to defend yourself, then there is something
badly wrong with that society, something that the proliferation and escalation of gun ownership will not and cannot remedy.
The likelihood of my home being invaded by an armed gunman in the UK is probably comparable with being struck by lightning*, twice.
Extremely remote. I have no need for a gun, I am glad to live in a society where* I do not need guns, I don't want to own a gun. The majority of the UK do not want more guns. In fact, they want less.
The fact that you are apparently not even aware of the causal link between drug abuse and crimes against property worldwide, (never mind the UK)....Speaks volumes; this is common knowledge, and empirically proven and demonstrable.
What on earth does where I live/was born have to do with anything? More confused nonsense. Newcastle is not even in the top 10 (or twenty I believe) burglary 'hotspots' in the UK. Places like Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, inner city London are.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...hot-spots.html
'Narrow views'?!
Not sure what you are on about, but nothing new there.
Yes, its a matter of culture. I don't want a
Gun culture in the UK, or kids growing up in one, simple as that. Nor do I want to see them outlawed entirely, they have their purposes for 'jobs of work' like farming, maybe sports and that's fine. I don't however want every Tom dick and harry owning one. Nor does anyone else. I have lived in the UK all my life, a lot longer than you.....and your views are a distinct minority. Deal with it, or find somewhere more to your taste if it makes you so unhappy.
@ Nearmiss. Sorry pal but you could not be more wrong if you tried. We'll stick with our ways, thanks a bunch.
Other countries can do their thing and that's great. We'll do ours. With the greatest of respect, I'll take my countries per capita murder rate over the US record in particular, anytime.
Finito.