On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:17:58 -0000, Muggles wrote:

On 1/12/2017 3:46 AM, Bod wrote:
On 12/01/2017 09:12, T wrote:
On 01/12/2017 12:37 AM, Bod wrote:
On 12/01/2017 03:50, Oren wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:04:54 +0000, Bod wrote:

Nothing wrong with guns per se, what I don't get is feeling the need
to have one for protection and especially feeling scared enough to
carry
one around in public.

Are all Brits this dense, Bod? I've explained it to you and other
limey's here before, but you keep harping on it. It isn't fear or
needs. We own guns because we WANT to and we CAN. Our gun rights are
a natural born right. Guns are a great investment. Like insurance.
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Forget about your _feelings_, nobody here cares what you "feel". Is
that to much for you to understand?

No, it's you who doesn't get it. You've actually made my point when
you said:
"Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it".

That means you carry a gun because you're frightened someone might pull
a gun on you.

We don't feel frightened enough to carry a gun because we know that
others don't carry them.....get it?
You feel the need to carry a gun for protection, we have that peace of
mind *without* feeling the need to carry one.

Bod,

Do you think these things through before you say them?

We carry guns for the same reason we wear seat belts. We
are not afraid. We are prudent. There is a difference.

Your criminals are starting to carry more guns. And they adore knives.

Plus, you don't give a **** about murder weapons that can not
be used in an insurrection.

Do you even think before saying the above rubbish?

-T

Hmm! I'm 68 and have never seen anyone with a gun in public, have never
had one pulled on me or any of my family/friends/neighbours etc.
Likewise with knives. Apart from some gangs in the big cities (who
mainly shoot or stab each other) no one else feels the need to carry a
gun(even in the big cities).

We are the same sort of people as you, but only divided by your gun
culture.

I respect your right to carry guns, but I'll never understand the need
for it.

The times are a changing, even in the UK.

"A poll in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, which claimed
130 victims, found that 58 per cent of people believed British officers
should be armed on patrol.

For more than two years the official threat level for international
terrorism in the UK has stood at severe, meaning an attack is "highly
likely"."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...error-attacks/

Police, yes. General public, no.

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