Paranoid Psychos
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I'm going as a suicide bomber. It greatly helps with bartering
poncho
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grow a beard get some boot polish on your face and dont forget your rotj 1983 back packGrant_C said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/a-dog-shoots-a-person-almost-every-year-in-america/?utm_term=.0159c7375fde
Check out the box table- happened in Florida :shock:
Check out the box table- happened in Florida :shock:
Unrelated to the post and celebration but it is to do with Americans and their guns..I saw a video of an elderly couple today where the wife "pranked" the husband with the "look in the water bottle to see the coin" trick and as I laughed and looked for the share button I noticed she was wearing a t-shirt that read "IN GUNS WE TRUST":
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Really is a totally different world over the pond, I think I would freak out if I saw people walking around with real guns at a convention.
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Really is a totally different world over the pond, I think I would freak out if I saw people walking around with real guns at a convention.
I had to read it twice before I realised what they meant. It doesn't really surprise me once I found out where celebration was on. People in America have a totally different viewpoint on firearms from what we have all grown up with having stricter laws over here.
I don't believe they will ever change the laws regarding firearms in the US that much. I agree they are paranoid and filled with fear of their own safety. Their reply to us would probably be along the lines. If you outlaw guns only the outlaws will have guns.
I wouldn't like to be around guys like that if something did kick off. Unless they have military or police training for combat with firearms once the adrenalin would kick in they could make the situation a lot more dangerous.
I don't believe they will ever change the laws regarding firearms in the US that much. I agree they are paranoid and filled with fear of their own safety. Their reply to us would probably be along the lines. If you outlaw guns only the outlaws will have guns.
I wouldn't like to be around guys like that if something did kick off. Unless they have military or police training for combat with firearms once the adrenalin would kick in they could make the situation a lot more dangerous.
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I love going to the US, but it is very scary knowing anyone can be legally carrying. You DO NOT get into road rage incidents out there. Just not worth the risk. My biggest shock out there was last year when we stayed overnight in Carson City Nevada. While my wife went into a fabric store, I wandered into a huge store called Sportsman. It was like your dream outdoor store. It was pretty empty, maybe noticed just a couple of staff, no customers. I came across shelves and shelves of coloured boxes near the gun section (a section with enough guns to invade a small country!), and I concluded they must be bullet boxes. I assumed you selected your box, took it to the counter, and they filled it or got a full one - NOPE! they were all full already! I had just walked in off the street and this stuff was at hand like it was chocolate bars. Really put the shivers up me. Also noticed the "bragging board" WTF :shock:
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I've spent quite a bit of time in the US with work, in the deep South. I've worked with educated, rational, intelligent people who appear like-minded... until you get onto the topic of guns. One guy in particular couldn't comprehend the fact that it was illegal to carry a firearm in the UK. Having tried a few times it's a discussion that's not worth starting, as you won't convince them and they won't convince you.
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stormcab said:
I was in a small town in Arizona having lunch a few years ago, when one of the regulars started chatting to me, nice guy but the entire time I was aware he had a handgun on a holster on his belt. Its really weird talking to a member of the public when they are openly carrying a handgun. He obviously clocked I had seen the gun and got it out to show me in detail. Really awkward but he was really quite blase about it all, its all just ploes apart.
My cousin moved to USA awhile back and he loves it, but hates the fact that his friends come to BBQ's carrying firearms.
i couldnt deal with it myself, vicious circle of needing to be armed to protect yourself from everyone else...
i couldnt deal with it myself, vicious circle of needing to be armed to protect yourself from everyone else...
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I think poles apart sums it up pretty well, the UK has one of the best records for least deaths by guns in recent years and The USA has one of the worst.
In the last 5 years 6 people have been shot by dogs in the USA!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/a-dog-shoots-a-person-almost-every-year-in-america/?utm_term=.d1c08c159853
In the last 5 years 6 people have been shot by dogs in the USA!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/a-dog-shoots-a-person-almost-every-year-in-america/?utm_term=.d1c08c159853
plantman said:
That's exactly the problem. they are now in a catch 22. Even if gun sales were banned tomorrow and people encouraged to trade them in, there are that many floating about that it would be decades before they were all taken out of circulation.
theforceuk said:
Yeah, it's just one of those coincidences where by the society with the most easily available guns has the most deaths from guns. Who would have thought it. Clearly the NRA are correct in saying that the solution is MORE GUNS. I mean, the logic is (if you'll pardon the pun) bullet proof! :roll:
James, or one of our Aussie members can probably tell you in more detail what happened when they banned guns 15-20 years ago, but would you believe that gun related deaths nosed dived!?
It also worth pointing out that as Brits, or Europeans, we are never going to understand the American obsession with guns. It's too deeply ingrained in them. One of the cultural differences that we will never comprehend.
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ODB said:
Had exactly the same thing happen to me in a place in New Mexico. In a little store where a local had an AR-15 in a open case, and he pulled out a tiny purse gun that was so small he had it in his jeans pocket. You just wondered if they were going to go all Deliverance :shock:
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plantman said:
My cousin lives in Vegas, always hated guns, but said he has had to give in and buy 1, and will be buying more. He says it's got worse and worse out there with a shooting every night. His apartment complex has had a spate of break-ins, and he's had to go out and threaten people sitting in cars outside who were scoping out the properties. Yep, catch 22 situation indeed.
