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Not many of them do and very few of them use them. There were 30 firearms homicides in the whole UK in 2020. California is probably a good comparison in the US. They had 2,156 in the same year.

Gun control works.

I have an old school friend in this position. He was born in America to English parents, but moved here when has was young. Then after uni, he married an American lady, and moved back to America. He now has 2 boys of his own. The funny thing is, his parents moved back to the UK because of all the shootings - it was a massive problem back in the 70s too. Yes, seems worse now, but still was a problem then, over 40 years ago.

Sounds like he is stuck there as his wife has an important job, but I can tell from his FB posts that he really is not enjoying sending his kids to school. They routinely do shooter drills now, hiding under tables, locking classroom doors etc, in case of emergency. It's crazy children have to do this - we haven't had to do that sort of thing since WW2.
America is a big mess and the u.k is following not far behind. And America still has the nerve to think it is the world's policeman
 
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The right to bear arms was logical when America was a new nation in a country where people lived on the frontier and there was no law and order and you had to protect your family and property.
The automatic assault rifle had not yet been invented and it would have been very difficult to carry out a mass shooting with just a single shot muzzle loader.

Times have moved on.
 
The right to bear arms was logical when America was a new nation in a country where people lived on the frontier and there was no law and order and you had to protect your family and property.
The automatic assault rifle had not yet been invented and it would have been very difficult to carry out a mass shooting with just a single shot muzzle loader.

Times have moved on.
The average American family faces more threats now so that's probably why they want more guns not less
 
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The issue is the guns falling into the wrong hands fruit cakes and criminals

If only law abiding sensible people had guns than things could be different ????

Same as the Uk if we had gun owners ship

Burglars and more importantly scum bags breaking into vans mob handed in broad day light with intimidation

Should be open season on em
Shot dead in the act

Even those doing a runner shoot them as well

Burglar in yer house have the means to blow his head off
Preferably tell him to go out side first due to having to clean up
 
Yes, threats from all the guns ...
Americas violent criminals would probably be like their UK comrades if they couldn't get a gun they would probably be armed with a knife. Should they be banned as well?
 
Americas violent criminals would probably be like their UK comrades if they couldn't get a gun they would probably be armed with a knife. Should they be banned as well?
UK criminals are much less violent than Americans. If I remember right we have less knife crime than America. And we have far fewer gun homicides.

Americans are just messed up.
 
Inbreeding / red necks ?

Dunno what gun control is like in Iceland ?


Lucky gun owner ship is not prevalent on the Isle of white ?
 
UK criminals are much less violent than Americans. If I remember right we have less knife crime than America. And we have far fewer gun homicides.

Americans are just messed up.
We have less crime because we are a lot smaller it wasn't long ago Londons homicide rate was higher than new yorks
 
We have less crime because we are a lot smaller it wasn't long ago Londons homicide rate was higher than new yorks
Bullshit on all counts. London is bigger than New York and that doesn't affect the rate of crime.

New York is much higher crime than London, there was a statistical blip four years ago where NY had two quiet months and London two violent months, but compare full years and the difference is stark.
 
We have less crime because we are a lot smaller it wasn't long ago Londons homicide rate was higher than new yorks

Oh, Minjeeta you will never know, anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Oh no, Minjeeta you'll never know
 
By about 1/2 million. It takes people so long to get anywhere in London they may forget what they went out for.

I went to work up there once and come back with a pint of milk .
 
Bullshit on all counts. London is bigger than New York and that doesn't affect the rate of crime.

New York is much higher crime than London, there was a statistical blip four years ago where NY had two quiet months and London two violent months, but compare full years and the difference is stark.
It depends on what point you are trying to prove as to which statistics you choose to use, as you have shown and proven nothing
 
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