Gun activists.

[Ye Olde Boomer]

yes there is - but gun hungry yanks won’t ever see it - just folllow the same Laws as most of the other civilised nations

But then someone who owns 8 guns won’t see that

Follow the same laws? How many times have I explained that the right of an American to bear arms CANNOT BE CHANGED BY STATUTE.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?

Also, you good people are leaving the EU because you don't want to be governed by the laws of other nations.

 

[patricks148]

Because I bought the arms as a young man and never even once gave a thought of their being being a weapon with which to kill an animal, mush less a human being.

This was all well before the rash of gun violence we see today.
Well, we had the individual murders, of course, but not the mass shootings we regularly seem to have now.

I liked playing, with all regard to safety of course, with guns when I was a kid. I don't anymore, but I did then and don't find it unusual. It's American culture for better or worse.

nothing to stop you getting rid then and using an air rifle or spud gun to shoot at targets?

you appear to like saying other Americans are red necks and like shooting each other, but you are not doing anything to help curb the owning of unnecessary guns?

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Or you could ditch said rifles and then you would never have the chance to aim at something living rather than putting faith in something as outdated as your gun laws

They are worth thousands of dollars. Offer to buy them and I'll give them up. Seriously.
Otherwise, they're part of my kids' inheritance.

 

[BubbaP]

Observation: poster Y O B is not representing the whole of the USA. Seems to be just trying to give an opinion of someone who grew up there.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Follow the same laws? How many times have I explained that the right of an American to bear arms CANNOT BE CHANGED BY STATUTE.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?

Also, you good people are leaving the EU because you don't want to be governed by the laws of other nations.

Laws can always be changed if the desire is there to change them

They are worth thousands of dollars. Offer to buy them and I'll give them up. Seriously.
Otherwise, they're part of my kids' inheritance.

And only in the US are guns part of “inheritance”

Nothing stop you selling them and putting the money away

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Observation: poster Y O B is not representing the whole of the USA. Seems to be just trying to give an opinion of someone who grew up there.

By the same token, this poster is not empowered to change the constitution of the United States.
Further, I tend to blame deficient people for senseless violence, not inanimate objects like firearms.

Perhaps one must grow up in American culture to understand.

I'm sure that you have your oddities too.
Imagine playing football with a round ball while wearing short pants!
In America, you'd get a red card for that. Or a yellow flag, anyway.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Laws can always be changed if the desire is there to change them

And only in the US are guns part of “inheritance”

Nothing stop you selling them and putting the money away

Only a willing buyer, Phil. Make me an offer!

 

[USER1999]

Laws can always be changed if the desire is there to change them

And only in the US are guns part of “inheritance”

Nothing stop you selling them and putting the money away

Is it not safer to keep his guns, and not use them, than sell them to someone who might?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Is it not safer to keep his guns, and not use them, than sell them to someone who might?

Not if they are being sold legally

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Is it not safer to keep his guns, and not use them, than sell them to someone who might?

Thank you, Murph.

I'm one person and certainly cannot by myself change the culture into which I was born .
I do appreciate the sincere concern of my new friends on this forum.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

They are worth thousands of dollars. Offer to buy them and I'll give them up. Seriously.
Otherwise, they're part of my kids' inheritance.

Thought it was your birth right? Just mere cash

It's only money

How much is a life worth

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Thought it was your birth right? Just mere cash

It's only money

How much is a life worth

Depends on whose life I guess.

 

[Swango1980]

By the same token, this poster is not empowered to change the constitution of the United States.
Further, I tend to blame deficient people for senseless violence, not inanimate objects like firearms.

Imagine deficient people didn't have firearms. I wonder what the impact of that would be?

 

[Tashyboy]

thing that makes me laugh is they are only trying to limit to one purchase a month.... one guy when challenged, his defence was more die from heart disease than guns

Heard that and nearly had a heart attack laughing.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Heard that and nearly had a heart attack laughing.

I don't really believe that you found that funny.
I'm sure, in fact, that you didn't.
I don't either.

I'm not a crazed cowboy.
I'm an older gentlemen who grew up in America and liked sporting arms when I was young.

 

[Tashyboy]

I suppose we feel that strongly about it as innocent people get gunned down BECAUSE the guns are readily accessible, and the solution? More guns. We had a mass shooting in Dunblane and made changes to our legislation as a result.
Article on legislation post Dunblane massacre
Not one bit of legislation changed in America as a result of the numerous massacres.
Lets get down to it. People don't want to give up their guns because they like guns. There just isn't the will to change and innocent people will continue to die and massacres will continue as well.

And a free nation is knowing that I have little chance of being shot on the street. A policeman with a gun is a rare thing which is also good. No "accidental" shootings. I consider not having guns to be a greater freedom than having them.

your not looking hard enough. There are plenty of armed police and plenty more to come. The main reason is terrorism, However they are not sat down waiting for things to happen, they spend a lot of there time attending drug related “ incidents”.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

We're all repeating ourselves now.
You're all citizens of the UK. Lovely nation in my view.
I grew up in America. Much different place. Some stuff better (even if it's just Las Vegas and the the food). Some stuff worse.
That's the whole issue right there.

 

[Tashyboy]

He makes your boy Boris look like Churchill, I'm afraid.

I assume you mean Churchill the insurance dog “ oooooh yes”. It’s. British joke ??

 

[Tashyboy]

I'm afraid that, so low have standards dropped, your idiot only makes our idiot look like Churchill the dog.
Yet I suspect the dog is house trained, and doesn't go around humping all the bitches it can get it's filthy little paws on!

? just caught up and wrote the same

 

[Swango1980]

We're all repeating ourselves now.
You're all citizens of the UK. Lovely nation in my view.
I grew up in America. Much different place. Some stuff better (even if it's just Las Vegas and the the food). Some stuff worse.
That's the whole issue right there.

And that's just how it is, is it? No point in trying to make things better then, if that just the way it is.