User Profile: guz75

Member Since: June 29, 2012

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  • Good old America. Exciting new technology comes along, what’s the first thing Americans think to do with it………….make weapons. It’s the fact that this is the first thing you think of that’s unnerving, not the way your government reacts to it!

  • Two of the Biggest Gun Control Myths Debunked

    May 1, 2013 at 2:13pm

    In reply to Southernsoul.

    @YESLIBERALSARETHATDUMB

    I’ve heard this reference to increased home invasions before, but there seems to be some confusion over the data, as we have a different description (hot burglary) which means some burglaries here would be interpreted as home invasions in America, but certainly no skyrocketing.

    You have to consider that comparing the UK to America doesn’t work. Very few people owned guns, particularly handguns and people can still own rifles and shotguns. It’s a different culture, I can honestly say in my 38 yrs I’ve only known 2 people that owned shotguns and I was never aware of anyone I knew owning a handgun.

    The problem with grabbing these statistics, is that when you look at the trends prior to them or take into account societal issues, or specific events, they often are almost completely unrelated to the thing they’re being attached to.

  • Two of the Biggest Gun Control Myths Debunked

    May 1, 2013 at 12:58pm

    In reply to Southernsoul.

    ‘Just the fact the Bobbies started carrying guns after the ban……..’

    WRONG.

    Just because Beck said it, doesn’t make it true. A bobby is a police constable, PCs do not and never have carried guns. We have armed response units that are called to any incidents that require guns and they have been around in various different forms for decades.

    Also Beck has neglected to mention that the spike in murder rates after 1997, was actually a substantial jump in 2003 caused by Dr Harold Shipman, who was discovered to have murdered nearly 200 elderly people in his care, who were previously believed to have died of natural causes. Funnily enough he also failed to point out that since 2003 our murder rates have dropped to their lowest point since 1983.

    You can grab a single statistic and make it mean what you want it to mean. You have to consider the other factors surrounding that statistic to really understand it’s relevance, or lack thereof.

  • @THE0BSERVER

    It’s funny how so many people here are unable to separate other countries leadership, from it’s people. Yet if I were to say ‘Obama is president of America, therefore you must stand for and agree with everything he says and does’ you’d be up in arms.

    I bet you’re the sort that loves to point the finger at others and blame them for the ills of society, but perhaps if you examine your reaction to hundreds dead and thousands injured, you’d realize you’re the the problem as much as anyone else. Grow up a bit.

  • Yaaaaawwwwwn

  • I hope you’re being sarcastic. This easily goes in the top 5 ‘most pointless things I’ve ever read’. I’m sure you could go through every month of the year and find plenty of important historical moments, what possible relevance does this have to the attack in Boston?

  • If he’s so sure god was looking out for him, why was he hiding in a classroom ******* his pants. Surely if god’s got his back he could have dealt with this guy. As for the gun idea; let’s say students were already allowed to carry guns, is there not a reasonable chance this guy might have had a gun. You’re going to end up with people shot and most likely a gunfight in a classroom, that would end well, wouldn’t it ??!!??

  • ZEPHUA73
    ‘It just goes to show that it’s not just guns that can be deadly’

    Except as far as I’m aware nobody died, pretty sure that wouldn’t be the case if they’d been shot.

  • It has nothing to do with ego or misdirection. I genuinely wish you would take the time to learn a little about evolutionary theory, so you at least have a point of reference, rather than making childish comments about monkeys. Which further displays your lack of knowledge on the subject.

    What word do you suggest I use for someone who willfully ignores something, I notice you’re unable to deny your IGNORANT position. If you want to talk about misdirection it would seem you’re the one that cannot respond directly to anything said to you.

  • I didn’t ask you for evidence of anything. All you’ve done is exactly what I said you’d do, start demanding specific evidence, regarding specific species.

    How can you not believe in what I believe in, when you’re clearly ignorant of it, where as I’m well aware of the crap you’ve been fed. I don’t have to give you evidence of anything, it’s all out there, I’m suggesting you educate yourself rather than coming at something from a point of ignorance.

    If you only know one side, then your noise is pointless.