Guns.......

[shobet]

sure you do! Just like we all live in or around Sydney, kangaroos hop freely down the main streets of our towns, we all ride emus to work, have thick outback accents like Crocodile Dundee & Yahoo Serious, and we all say "Croikey!!" a LOT

Don't you beat your women as well, or have I got that the wrong way around?

[VitaminG]

Don't you beat your women as well, or have I got that the wrong way around?

have you been watching that documentary series "Neighbours" again?

All I know about Brit culture, I learned from fly-on-the-wall docos, like On The Buses, Eastenders & The Bill

[shobet]

have you been watching that documentary series "Neighbours" again?

All I know about Brit culture, I learned from fly-on-the-wall docos, like On The Buses, Eastenders & The Bill

It's all true! Even the women all look like Olive or Babs Windsor in the Carry On films. It must be true I saw it on the telly.


'I hate you Butler! aughhhwerr'

[zeegler]

Funny how people from other countries where gun ownership is banned or restricted slam us here in the USA.
It least WE have the FREEDOM to do so.
I have made use of my CCW a few times to defend myself.If I hadn't had one I probably wouldn't be alive.
So all you ragging on us for owning weapons BITE ME.

You need to calm down man. No one is slamming anyone in this thread. We're having a nice friendly discussion, so don't come in here and start shit. By the way, being allowed to have guns is nothing to do with freedom. If it was, then why aren't you allowed to have RPGs, or even nuclear warheads? Get off your ethnocentric Amercian high-horse, and shake your head. Of course you think America is the only country in the world where people have freedom. You are brainwashed.

[GodOfRhythm]

Oooooooook, druggy ramblings aside...

I respect all of your opinions and I can say I don't live in the US so I don't have the same strong sense over the amendment to bear arms as you all do, nor do I have the incentives (raging crime, security needs) to want guns.

But my personal conviction is, that the more guns are spread throughout a society, the worse off the society ultimately is.

One police force in Belgium has Steyr AUGs in their squad cars, that is the force from the city called Charleroi (french part of Belgium, don't even get me started on that ). And those are obviously in the hands of trained professional members of the law, so that's ok by me.

I have only one example right now to explain my mindset. About three weeks ago a police officer here in Belgium was shot and killed. It was frontpage and prime-time news for about a week. The funeral had thousands at the church and on the streets. I can not think of any other cop fatality in recent memory. The fact it was such an exceptional occurence is more than a convincing plea against widespread gun ownership, imho.

Though with recent broadening of the Schengen treaty there'll be a couple more eastern-european gangs carrying AK47's and RPG's out and about throughout Europe and Belgium, but I've yet to come across them. So forgive me if I don't really take them into consideration. Hell, if they'd show up on my doorstep demanding entry while waving their AK's about and wanting to steal my TV, computer and BMW, I'm going to go ALONG with them and suffer some cuts and bumps and bruises. I'll tell you what I'm not going to do: wave my personal assault rifle at them, because the likelyhood of me and my family dying would increase exponentially at that point. (Not to mention the fact that most of these gangs are trained ex-military members, with a solid knowledge of weaponry and tactics and how to use it.)

Other than that I can only think of a couple of situations. A couple of family tragedies where suicidal cops used his service weapon to kill their families and then commit autocide. And situations where drunk and/or dementing septuagenarians killed their neighbours over silly disputes.

Out of all those situations I remember just TWO in which a jeweler or store owner used a weapon to fire at criminals, robbing his store. In one he hit the criminals but they got away. In the other he shot one of them in the back, he died, the jeweler was charged with manslaughter, etc...

So you can see how I fail to see any reason for widespread gun ownership in a society. Though at the same time I understand the reality in which you live in in the US which would necessitate you to feel compelled to own a gun. This is basically an unsolvable problem right now, the guns are so widespread that forcing a ban at this point on private citizens owning weapons, would give rise to thousands of criminals having over-powering firepower, while private citizens would be left 'defenseless'. That is why I said 'I pity you', I wasn't trying to be condescending or sarcastic, I really meant it, because except for a timemachine to wipe out the last 100 years or so of gun ownership history in the US, there is no real solution to what I personally see as a 'problem'.

[Rsmacker]

Fucking hell G.O.R, turn it in! You need to get with the spirit of this thread.

Now, either show us a picture of an insane-looking firearm you own, or make a comment about how silly they are, make a comment about cock-size and top it all with an insult. Simple.

Now, where was I? Oh yeah, Belgium. Belgium? I hear that a cop topped his own family, then shot himself, and wiped out one of Europe's biggest Paedo networks. Apparently the authorities were horrified that this could happen, that they are short-staffed as it is. And they weren't too pleased about the dead policeman either.

Ha! Now, someone lay a pic of a BFG on us now and tell us you only need it in case blood-drinking aliens invade (that's space aliens, not Scots), and we can get back on track.



Does anyone want a picture of my highly dangerous GAT air-pistol? I shot my brother with it once and the dart very nearly broke the skin. I didn't have any more, but got closer and popped him again. The piston popping out the end gave him a considerable bruise. Ah, happy days, that Summer of 2006.

[Norton]

The real criminals get their firearms thru illegal ways,anyway. By making it hard to obtain guns for the civillians,you kinda make it harder for them to defense themselves. The cops never make it on time. Sometimes you have to defend yourself.If a robber trespassed my house at night, I would like the privilege of banging his head off.It's a right provided by the survival instinct of a person.

[straycat]

Well put.

[shobet]

Sometimes you have to defend yourself.If a robber trespassed my house at night, I would like the privilege of banging his head off.It's a right provided by the survival instinct of a person.

Would you give him a reach around as well?

[Rsmacker]

Now now, you know that these burglars and robbers don't need to be shot at the scene of the crime, like the worthless dogs they are. No, they are just "misunderstood" and simply in need of a hug, not a high speed lead injection. And probably a nice Kenyan safari holiday too, to help them recover form the trauma of their deprived childhood.

I tried it once, but when the hoodie-wearing scrote felt my porridge gun pressing up against him, he thought I was Dirty Harry and did a runner.

[VitaminG]

what were you doing pressing your junket pump into him anyway? Isn't that a violation of his personal space/civil liberties/right to arm bears?

[442w30]

This is the coolest gun picture ever:

[Rsmacker]

See? Life would be so much easier if we could erm, "tool-up" like the Yanks.
I did hit a burglar once with a baseball bat after him and his mate broke into the warehouse nextdoor. He didn't expect to see me and my monster ex-army Alsation come flying after him, I had to chase him miles before he "fell over" my bat. One of those nice shooting irons like shown on here, I could have winged him from the doorway and strolled after him.

[Rsmacker]

This is the coolest gun picture ever:

I think I missed that episode of Gentle Ben.

[straycat]

Yeah you are real funny.Limey.