War & Politics"Revenge" in Leytonstone

 

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.21 In reply to 41640.16 
Criminals, obviously, don't care whether their gun is legally owned. If you have legal and widespread gun ownership then illegal guns are *much* easier to come by and cheaper.

But yeah, if you look at the US's gun crime problem and you think the guns aren't at least a major component of that problem then... I don't know what to say.

I *get* that it's a cultural thing. You are a country born in war and, as such, have an ingrained militaristic bent rarely seen outside of authoritarian regimes. But the constitutional provision is archaic (and frustratingly poorly worded for something so important) - I mean do you really think that hanguns and assault rifles are going to help you if the government becomes tyrannical? Given that they have, y'know, aircraft carriers, assault helicopters, drones, guided missiles and nukes?
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.22 In reply to 41640.16 
Ignoring your constitutional right to bear arms, what is your reason for owning guns?
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  graphitone     
41640.23 In reply to 41640.13 
It's pushing 10½ hours and I /still/ don't get it...

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41640.24 In reply to 41640.23 
Charles de Menezes... Dennis de Menezes... Dennis the Menace... IGMC

 

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  koswix     
41640.25 In reply to 41640.24 
 T_T

Alls I managed to google up was this

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41640.26 In reply to 41640.25 
(fail)

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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  milko     
41640.27 In reply to 41640.20 
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Y'all need a lot less guns.

Too late for that, best we can hope for is to make it nigh to impossible for whackos to get them, although they still seem to get them  - illegally.

As far as the stories go, they may well be true. I found links to a couple news stories, and if I was a gun shop owner, I wouldn't have sold a gun to the guys in both of the links. But of course, in order not to do that, I would have had to profile people and have listened to cries of discrimination.

Interesting facts from a LEO that I know:

Any person exhibiting any two of the three following traits or behaviours may result in gun (two of those three factors points to a possible future mass, serial, or spree killer) or other violence later in life. Although not entirely definitive, the traits point to patterns of abuse which may make the one abused more prone to violent behaviour.

Bed-wetting after the age of five.
Arson
Animal cruelty

 

 
  Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?
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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  Monsoir (PILOTDAN)     
41640.28 In reply to 41640.10 
No, but then again we don't get a lot of U.K. news here, unless it is high profile.

I know when the last stabbing was though, and those are supposedly on the rise.

Oops! Sorry, Derrick Bird. He used a rifle and a shotgun.



Violent crime recorded by the police soared by 16 per cent last year to nearly 700,000 offences, new figures show.

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) covering the 12 months to the end of September last year showed 699,800 recorded incidents of violence against the person compared with 604,100 offences in the previous 12 months.

The data also showed a new record level of rapes recorded by police in England and Wales.

There were 24,043 rapes in recorded crime figures for the year, a rise of 31 per cent on the previous 12 months and 81 per cent higher than a decade earlier.

The figure beat the 22,000 figures recorded in the previous quarter's data and suggests that continuing confidence in police and the courts is leading growing numbers of rape victims to come forward.

Sounds like people, in general, are just more violent today. Why?
 

 
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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
41640.29 In reply to 41640.21 
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I mean do you really think that hanguns and assault rifles are going to help you if the government becomes tyrannical? Given that they have, y'know, aircraft carriers, assault helicopters, drones, guided missiles and nukes?
 
Sure beats the snot out of fighting them with a fountain pen and some papyrus over a cup of tea...
 
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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41640.30 In reply to 41640.22 
One target pistol I purchased years ago to - target shoot. I was given an old Italian rifle by a friend after his father died. It is debatable whether it is a serviceable firearm or not.

I decided to buy a larger bore pistol with which to target shoot, so purchased a 9mm. My son has expressed an interest in hunting, so I may buy a shotgun. We have a dearth plethora of deer around here, so we may take up the sport, requiring rifles. I won't shoot animals just to shoot them, rather, they must be used for food by us or it isn't going to happen.

Why do you care whether or not I own guns or not, living over there as you do? Just because you can't own a gun doesn't mean that I should not.

** As kos alertedly brought to my intention, I indicated that we have few horned automobile stoppers (see strikethrough); this is not true as Pennsylvania has many more deer actually than available land can realistically support due to human beings spreading like a virus.
 
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 From:  graphitone  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.31 In reply to 41640.28 
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Sounds like people, in general, are just more violent today. Why?

Maybe it's because, as you allude to in your post, more crime is getting reported. We could be just as violent as we've ever been, but more people have more faith in the prosecution and support systems, so feel they can speak out.

The statistics are only as good as the figures they're based on.

Course, it could all be violent movies and video games. Let's just blame Doom and have done with it. :C

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.32 In reply to 41640.30 
Dearth means scarcity. You going to kill the last bambi? You heartless bastard :C

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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.33 In reply to 41640.30 
quote: fixrman
One target pistol I purchased years ago to - target shoot. I was given an old Italian rifle by a friend after his father died. It is debatable whether it is a serviceable firearm or not.

I decided to buy a larger bore pistol with which to target shoot, so purchased a 9mm. My son has expressed an interest in hunting, so I may buy a shotgun. We have a dearth of deer around here, so we may take up the sport, requiring rifles. I won't shoot animals just to shoot them, rather, they must be used for food by us or it isn't going to happen.

Why do you care whether or not I own guns or not, living over there as you do? Just because you can't own a gun doesn't mean that I should not.

That's not my reason for asking, or caring really. I'm just curious about your reason for wanting to own. Hunting, target shooting etc seems fair enough.

I was more curious if you were to use "safety" as your reason. I know Ken feels the need to own guns from a safety POV. I suppose the safety comes down to your local area, neighbourhood, crime rates etc.

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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  graphitone     
41640.34 In reply to 41640.31 
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Let's just blame Doom and have done with it. :C

I played Doom a lot years ago. Do you mean to say that I am about to go out and shoot up a Christmas tree lot or a knitting party? Ye Gods and little fishes!  8-O

 
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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  koswix     
41640.35 In reply to 41640.32 
I realised that as soon as I posted it, but I neglected to fix it, had to scurry off to work after posting and looking at the time. We have a plethora of Pecora. That said, if we can't use the meat, we cannot harvest it.
 
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 From:  fixrman   
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41640.36 In reply to 41640.33 
Safety would be a secondary or even tertiary reason to [my] owning a gun. I would say that there exists a certain percentage of Americans who are rather "cowboyish" about their guns; I suspect a certain percentage of those may have Freudian issues.
 
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  fixrman      
41640.37 In reply to 41640.35 
We have a glut of deer in the Highlands. Land owners take as much as they can realistically use/sell, but there's still too many according to some (mainly complaining about the destruction they cause to forestry and their tendency to jump in front of cars).

Some idiots are even campaigning to reintroduce a top level predator like the wolf to keep them under control.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41640.38 In reply to 41640.37 
Wolves!? I'm sure they'll be happy when they venture into the cities like the foxes do.
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41640.39 In reply to 41640.38 
We'll need a higher level predator to take care of the wolves. Before long we'll have dinosaurs, so I'm all for it.

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  koswix     
41640.40 In reply to 41640.39 
Two words:

shark

nado

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