Trigger happy yanks

[seboni121]

Yet again some person has shot up a school in Newtown Connecticut, a 20 year old apparently he's gone and shot over 27 people of which 18 are kids, shocking absolutely shocking

[RainbowFire]

"You have the right to bear arms" until that's removed from the constitution, this will never stop being in the news. The sad thing is that this is a daily event in America.

Maybe should be "the right to arm bears" - that would make hunting season interesting ;)

[seboni121]

"You have the right to bear arms" until that's removed from the constitution, this will never stop being in the news. The sad thing is that this is a daily event in America.

Maybe should be "the right to arm bears" - that would make hunting season interesting ;)

Yeah agree it will never change :( interesting idea arming bears, or even having a bear army ?

[Octygone]

Met an old ex soldier a while back and he said.........during the war in the trenches ....if the Germans fired he ducked down ....if he fired the Germans would duck down.......and when the Americans fired ...EVERYBODY ducked

[seboni121]

Just watching the news with the briefing, same old bloody story ! Someone's gone crazy with a semi automatic and killed loads of kids and teachers, the yanks need to grow up and melt these bloody guns

[Ootohere]

Knife Happy Chinese.

There are nutters everyplace.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

george

[JerryT]

Just watching the news with the briefing, same old bloody story ! Someone's gone crazy with a semi automatic and killed loads of kids and teachers, the yanks need to grow up and melt these bloody guns

But when you see TV programmes such as 'Son's of Guns' on discovery channel it sort of explains the US psyche.

This link may help http://www.redjacketfirearms.com/

[seboni121]

But when you see TV programmes such as 'Son's of Guns' on discovery channel it sort of explains the US psyche.

This link may help http://www.redjacketfirearms.com/

Bonkers

[JerryT]

Bonkers

Yes they are, well at least some of them. Friend of mine didn't like it when he moved back to Ohio and found that he had to keep his gun in a box, in the glovebox or the trunk of his car. The reason being he would then have to go through two steps to get to his gun and therefore definitely mean to fire it. Needless to say he is a Republican and a member of the NRA and hankers after an AK-47 or some other automated weapon such as an M-16.

Other acquaintances down in Atlanta have said must go down and see them then we can go out to the farm and shoot some guns as if it is a usual thing to do.

On the other hand a lot of my other friends/acquaintances out there are Democrats who have a completely different perspective on the need to 'bear arms'.

[grr666]

Huge gun culture in the US.

We were very surprised during our road trips on just how many different

bars, clubs, shops and restaurants felt the need to put a sign up warning

you that you couldn't bring your guns or knives for that matter into the

establishment. These signs were literally everywhere.

Also it's hardly surprising in a country where you can buy bullets and

various weaponry in the supermarket. Wal mart had a huge hunting

aisle in more or less every branch we visited.

The trouble is that the guns aren't responsible for the killing, it's the

nut jobs pulling the trigger. And a nut job is a nut job at the end of the day.

And theres no shortage of them in any country. It's just easier for them to arm

themselves over there in the good old US of A. In a country with the highest

usage of crystal meth is it really any surprise that some blow a fuse and go off

on one?

Simply put, a gun is a tool. In many parts of the world it's used for the simple task

of shooting ones food, especially in the parts of America that Mcdonalds couldn't

reach. Without it families in more remote areas would starve.

So should we still ban them? They are also used widely in pest control, without

them farmers would lose more crops/livestock to different types of predator and

vermin. Which in the long run would mean more scarce and expensive food for

all of us. They also keep certain species from multiplying at an alarming rate

which again would impact upon our ability as a species to feed ourselves.

You could go on a spree killing with a claw hammer, a sharpened spade,

a cricket bat, a plank with a spike in it, a car. More or less anything can be perverted

into a weapon if the user desires.

[fabdavrav]

Lived in USA for three years......

Same old....same old.........

The best stat from Micheal Moores "Bowing for Columbine".....was that the Canadians had more guns per head of population than the USA.....BUT amongst the lowest (defo lower than USA) deaths by gun in the world.................

Says it all really about the feckwit yanks!

[seboni121]

I remember in Walmart I could buy a car and a handgun ? Wtf

[grr666]

I remember in Walmart I could buy a car and a handgun ? Wtf

I know, mad isn't it when you're not used to it.

It was all the camo gear and shooting towers etc that got me...

[seboni121]

Yeah we where on belts in Kissimmee there was a shooting store there totally jaw dropping place, it was our first time over the pond and found it really amazing but scary at the same time, this maybe because of all the shoot em up television we had in the UK

[moley]

Guns don't kill, but the nutters holding them do.

Don't forget Hungerford, Dunblane and Andres Breivik in Norway, the US is not alone.

About 8000 - 9000 people are murdered by people with guns in the US each year and about 32000 are killed on the roads.

[@Lee]

Another one from Bowling for Combine was where Michael Moore went into a bank. He would get a free rifle if he opened an account. WTF!

[OCScene]

To quote the great Eddie Izzard; guns don't kill people,people do. I think the gun kind of helps.....

[slider]

To quote the great Eddie Izzard; guns don't kill people,people do. I think the gun kind of helps.....

As does a knife, bomb, rope, bare hands, car etc etc.

As a legal gun licence holder and user (clay pigeons and vermin control) I totally abhor the US gun culture and my sympathies go out to those involved in this latest violence, but fear yet another campaign for even stricter UK control by the anti's.

Gun crime is reducing annually in this country and only a very small percentage of these crimes are committed with legally held weapons

[Aspman]

There is very little you can do to stop people going postal. Often they've been absolutely fine up until that point so all the weapons controls you have wouldn't do a thing. In the US they have accepted this and they'll live with these shootings. Over here we've done a blanket ban on most weapons.

[GentleGiant]

Huge gun culture in the US.

We were very surprised during our road trips on just how many different

bars, clubs, shops and restaurants felt the need to put a sign up warning

you that you couldn't bring your guns or knives for that matter into the

establishment. These signs were literally everywhere.

Also it's hardly surprising in a country where you can buy bullets and

various weaponry in the supermarket. Wal mart had a huge hunting

aisle in more or less every branch we visited.

The trouble is that the guns aren't responsible for the killing, it's the

nut jobs pulling the trigger. And a nut job is a nut job at the end of the day.

And theres no shortage of them in any country. It's just easier for them to arm

themselves over there in the good old US of A. In a country with the highest

usage of crystal meth is it really any surprise that some blow a fuse and go off

on one?

Simply put, a gun is a tool. In many parts of the world it's used for the simple task

of shooting ones food, especially in the parts of America that Mcdonalds couldn't

reach. Without it families in more remote areas would starve.

So should we still ban them? They are also used widely in pest control, without

them farmers would lose more crops/livestock to different types of predator and

vermin. Which in the long run would mean more scarce and expensive food for

all of us. They also keep certain species from multiplying at an alarming rate

which again would impact upon our ability as a species to feed ourselves.

You could go on a spree killing with a claw hammer, a sharpened spade,

a cricket bat, a plank with a spike in it, a car. More or less anything can be perverted

into a weapon if the user desires.

You do NOT need a semi automatic assault rifle to go hunting, not is an automatic pistol of use for ANYTHING other than killing people.

US law is moronic, did you know a suppressor for an air rifle is illegal over there??

[P6bJOHN]

Does an air rifle give off much radio interference? (Unless aimed at it of course)

[Octygone]

Guns don't kill, but the nutters holding them do.

Don't forget Hungerford, Dunblane and Andres Breivik in Norway, the US is not alone.

About 8000 - 9000 people are murdered by people with guns in the US each year and about 32000 are killed on the roads.

Remeber Hungerford all to well...first shooting was less than a mile from our house

[Moist Von Lipwig]

I remember a while after Dunblane the NRA used the details in their advert stating that it wouldn't have happened if the teachers had been armed! I know many are calling for controls over there but really can't see it happening as guns are so imbedded in their culture and groups like the NRA have incredible political power.

[seboni121]

I remember a while after Dunblane the NRA used the details in their advert stating that it wouldn't have happened if the teachers had been armed! I know many are calling for controls over there but really can't see it happening as guns are so imbedded in their culture and groups like the NRA have incredible political power.

NRA . . .?

[Jabozuma]

Why ban guns??? Let anyone have them as long as they pass very stringent qualification process (including psychological testing) and raise the age limit to 35 or so.

Fire arms retail outlets would have to be manned by specially trianed personell able to assess customers buying them. Psychologically unstable person is in most cases easy to spot (excluding psychopats who are more normal than most ) and can be refused purchase. Come back next day when you caemd down or a salesman would be able to direct such a customer for psych test.

Again, automatic and semi-automatic firearms belong in the military, not in the general population!

The above obviously doesn't work when you get your guns from your mum's cupboard (as this case was)...

As for gun culture, all you need to do is go on Utube and search Anzio 20mm - nuff said :(