Eeyore wrote:

Huge wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Anthony Matonak wrote:

The vast majority of gun owners, like car drivers, are fairly
responsible and not considered to be a threat to others. Your
world view may not accept this but then that's your problem.
The 'vast majority' of hand gun 'owners' in the UK are criminals.
An argument so circular that I'm surprised it isn't in a vault in Paris
somewhere, along with the standard kilogram and metre.

It's not an argument, circular or otherwise. It's a FACT.

Besides, gun ownership has never been a popular desire for educated civilised
people anyway. Besides, what would I want one for ?


I would love one to take out the deer that are getting to be a real pest
round here. They taste good too. BUT shooting even where we are with the
sort of gun that would take one out at 100 yards is terribly
dangerous..you have to be up high, shooting down.

Plenty of pheasants and pigeons around for shotguns to, and they would
feed the dogs if not us.

I did have a go at rabbits with a 22 air rifle, but stopped when I
realised that unless I got a head shot, the thing would hop away and die
somewhere else.


There was a documentary I saw about a teenage ? girl who moved from the USA to
live with her family on an air base in Britain. She was frightened out in public
because our police don't carry guns. It apparently had never ocurred to her that
there can be a society where the public don't go around in daily fear of armed
criminals and that the police don't NEED guns in their normal everday work !
It's a sad reflection on the violence endemic in US society.

Graham