As Squid says, we all hear about the stabbing sprees all the time don't we? The difference is that it's harder to kill multiple people than with a gun. Sure, allow handguns for protection, but why do people in their homes require shotguns and assault rifles and 1000+ rounds of ammunition. I agree with what others say, a clean sweep of guns in America is a very unrealistic suggestion for a solution but tighter controls on types and amounts of weaponry can't be a bad thing can it?
I have a super idea. Read these two things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban <<< >>>
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text and then go back to watching the news as to whether the queen, bonny prince Whomever, or the new babies farted.
The British are starting to remind me of the pope. When left with no armies or power, the pope decided he was going to keep the pagans in check and those tithes coming in with nothing but fear of god. And so you kowtow in fear of the queen. And we're supposed to kowtow to your worthless opinions
All these gun stories you've managed 'to collect and whimper along with, aren't a tenth of the brutal killing, maiming and butchering which goes on in the world. Here's a question, "how many Columbines does it take to make a Brussels bombing? Maybe we should outlaw nais, bolts, & screws too.
Since you're in Britain, and Squid is in Canada, I find it amazing that neither you simply aren't capable of shutting up about it either. That's a habit that goes back hundreds of years with you Brits, so I guess it's to be expected.
When it comes right down to it, if we weren't such an uncivilized, unruly, violent wolf pack, you people would be speaking German. And if it weren't for the umbrella of NATO, Canada might be hiding under mother Russia's skirts, and we could have moved the Cuban missile crisis up there.
I'm from the hip generation, and we used to preach all this love, peace, brotherhood, and non violence balderdash. We were wrong about so much. Equal rights being given without any compensation in return such as responsibility to country, and a ton of other massive faux pas, such as an all volunteer army, no abortions given to women on welfare, "because god doesn't want them to have them". Blech..
The only thing that turned out being worthwhile from that era, ( to me anyway), was at least a decade of constant and amazing gratuitous sexual encounters, with a seemingly unending stream of gorgeous hippy chicks. Oh, and and an endless supply of top notch progressive rock. Much preferable to disco, punk and certainly rap.
So, feel free to jump back under your covers, put your thumbs back in your mouths, and try reading about assault weapons bans in the US, before you summarily declare we don't have one.
Oh, and our shotguns are for deer and duck. Do you have a problem with that as well?
Before I go, I'd like to make a suggestion:
Besides, we're from good hardy criminal stock anyway. No reason to try disarm us if not for your own designs on absolute power. The reason we're here in the US, is because we were sick, sore, and tired, of genuflecting to a bunch of watery blooded, inbred, murderous, mentally defective pieces of s*** , with paranoid delusions of godhood, which is basically all that much of English royalty amounted to.
Why don't you throw out the queen with the gun oil?
At this point, I'm sure we'd be happy to lend you Obama until you can draft a constitution and get back on your feet..
(y)