Wrong. It's that the London (UK/Europe) people's inability to defend themselves vis a vis by not being allowed to carry a weapon for DEFENSIVE purposes, that allow the criminals to live and thrive.
The UK is a bit different from the majority of European countries. Violent gun crime is not common Europe. I don't know how bad it is in Britain, but I imagine it's not as bad as in the US.
Guns don't solve anything. In my Scandinavian country the police don't carry guns at all - and the police are still not getting shot on the job. And people feel safe. So what's this nonsense about needing guns?
90+% of the news I listen to, hours a day, is UK news. There are TONS of personal, violent and property attacks all the time mentioned on those outlets. Don't lie to yourself or anyone here that crime does not happen there. Nobody I know of here has been attacked or robbed like people in the UK take for granted. Because in the UK you can't defend yourself like you can here. That's just fact. Not arguable.
FThorn, I hate you... Are you really ignorant enough to believe that people, like myself, that live in the UK/London would feel any safer if everyone suddenly had free access to firearms, for so called 'defensive' purposes? How the fuck are you supposed to defend yourself against a gun anyway? The only reason you need guns to defend yourself in the US is that anyone else can own one! Just because you hear a lot about gun crime from the UK, doesn't mean it's as much a problem as it is for the US. The media here tends to jump all over incidents involving guns because they don't occur that frequently.
Fthorn, just how many reports of a child shooting another child at school (or anyone shooting anyone at school post Hungerford) have you heard from the UK?
RikF, Curious, how did the UK go about getting rid of guns? It had to be more involved than just making them illegal right? I can't imagine the criminals all suddenly decided to give up their lives of crime and start following the law.
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Brilliant, now London's gangs can roam the streets intimidating the general public without fear of reprise.
Wrong. It's that the London (UK/Europe) people's inability to defend themselves vis a vis by not being allowed to carry a weapon for DEFENSIVE purposes, that allow the criminals to live and thrive.
yeah "FThorn", cos the UK/Europe has so much more street crime than the US.
The UK is a bit different from the majority of European countries. Violent gun crime is not common Europe. I don't know how bad it is in Britain, but I imagine it's not as bad as in the US.
Guns don't solve anything. In my Scandinavian country the police don't carry guns at all - and the police are still not getting shot on the job. And people feel safe. So what's this nonsense about needing guns?
Except that you all miss the fact that a majority of the street crime in the US are due to racism and other non-gun factors.
chaymation,
90+% of the news I listen to, hours a day, is UK news. There are TONS of personal, violent and property attacks all the time mentioned on those outlets. Don't lie to yourself or anyone here that crime does not happen there. Nobody I know of here has been attacked or robbed like people in the UK take for granted. Because in the UK you can't defend yourself like you can here. That's just fact. Not arguable.
FThorn, I hate you... Are you really ignorant enough to believe that people, like myself, that live in the UK/London would feel any safer if everyone suddenly had free access to firearms, for so called 'defensive' purposes? How the fuck are you supposed to defend yourself against a gun anyway? The only reason you need guns to defend yourself in the US is that anyone else can own one!
Just because you hear a lot about gun crime from the UK, doesn't mean it's as much a problem as it is for the US. The media here tends to jump all over incidents involving guns because they don't occur that frequently.
Fthorn, just how many reports of a child shooting another child at school (or anyone shooting anyone at school post Hungerford) have you heard from the UK?
RikF,
Curious, how did the UK go about getting rid of guns? It had to be more involved than just making them illegal right? I can't imagine the criminals all suddenly decided to give up their lives of crime and start following the law.