Hey you Brits...

FML I'm not going to a FEMA camp. They will never take me alive WENDY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnkdfFAqsHA >>>JFK

The man who gave his life trying to give this country back to the people.

Lol@Smokes you and me both!


@Skandar, your response broke me head! You know without getting into stating every statistic in theory it works in reality it is a disaster. And please Cops w/o guns... wow? When the call goes out for man w/ a gun, and he kills 5 before your backup with a weapon shows up, everyone will begin to question why don't all officers have sidearms, because he would or could have been stopped sooner and preserved the loss of life.

Here, here Skander

@Skandar .. You werent trying to talk sence about guns to a yank were you ??

That was a noble attempt at some really big words, but next time SPELL CHECK so you don't look like a m0r0n.

~yank

I don't care for Brit sportscars

but like the brit top gear over the US top gear

in the last decade over 25% of Detroit moved out. this was a result of corruption in the city government and riots in the streets. no one did anything effective to stop it.

in the past few weeks in Philadelphia the same thing is happening. however, in this case the black mayor and police chief are saying that the riots are being conducted by stupid ignorant thugs and that their actions will not be condoned. let's see if this works better than what the PM said about youth "not knowing the difference between right and wrong". horse hockey

country in recession but tuesday our CPMH was double our daily goal
and the company is not in a recession
new stores lanes are always active except the holidays
we are busting out stores like a simcountry CEO
and we are expanding our internal industrial vehicles from crown
Houston does no go in recession it grows
maybe those Detroit people moved to Texas
I wish the local pro teams would perform as well as the businesses
ExxonMobil I guess the real heavy hitter

That's a bad example. Detroit always sucked.

@Lord Eddie "You weren[']t trying to talk [sense] about guns to a yank were you?"
How foolish of me. Us Europeans generally don't get Americans obsession with firearms. I believe you can get rifles & shotguns with the correct licence in this country, for hunting grouse and foxes and the like (from horseback, dressed in plus fours, handlebar moustache optional). Not sure how useful these would be in an urban shoot-out scenario.

@Psycho Honey "And please Cops w/o guns... wow?"
Works when it's difficult for criminals to get hold of guns.

"everyone will begin to question why don't all officers have sidearms"
Well, occasionally someone does pop up with a gun, and yet this question never gets asked, usually because said nutter goes on the run and it takes time to find him. Last case like this in England was Raoul Moat in 2010. The police had plenty of time to deploy firearms officers because no-one knew where he'd gone.

We have about 2-4 deaths due to police shootings per year and if anything, the debate here is more critical of the 'shoot-to-kill' policy introduced after 11/9 (that's 9/11 for you ex-colonials) than whether we should have more armed officers.

Following the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005 (who was mis-identified as a suspected terrorist), we are more likely to get rid of firearms officers than increase their numbers.

Exception: I didn't know this until reading up on it now, but police officers in Northern Ireland are entitled to carry personal hand guns both on and off duty. This is a special case though due to the inter-communal tensions between Catholics and Protestants in N.I.

Damn, knew there was something else to comment on:

@Matt Paton "I don't care for Brit sportscars
That's alright, we don't care for American sportscars. Top Gear are always critical of Detroit's offerings as they're usually based on out-of-date technology that Europeans and Japanese manufacturers had moved away from, particularly chassis which have a massive effect on handling. But then, we have fewer straight roads, so handling is more important here than raw power. [Exception: for some reason, Top Gear seems to be in love with the Ford GT.]

P.S. Is your first language English? Can't follow the meaning of your second post. It needs more prepositions and punctuation.

Matt Patton is from Houston??

Damn it...

Welcome to the New Wrold Order!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CWBTL33MpA

Well....... Brits drive on the wrong side of the road!!!!!!!! And, they eat disgusting stuff. Research 'Black Pudding'. I rest my case. :P

@Lorelei: "And, they eat disgusting stuff. Research 'Black Pudding'."

I can do no better than quote the quotable Stephen Fry, "This from a country which makes spray-on cheese!"

ROFL

Got to admit Jan, Skander's got a point

And, just because left is the opposite of right, doesn't mean it's wrong. LOL

Hugs and respect

Jo

Fine. Marmalade. I detest marmalade. Who wants rinds and pulp in their jam?

ahhh back to the good ol days...sat at my grans eating tripe and onions, mmmm ;P

Back to the topic, I live in Australia, which has some of the strictest gun control in the world. Homicide rates here are lower than in the US, far lower in fact.
I honestly do not see the logic in saying that the more guns, the safer the community. Us Australians used to be the same as the US- gun lovers at heart- but then one morning in Tasmania some nut went around and massacred a few dozen people, and we decided to give them up for the greater good.
Now look at us- crime rates are lower than ever, we don't need to lock our doors at night (although I still do) and the police have scrapped guns for tasers because there is no real need for so much firepower.
There is a direct correlation between the number of guns in a country and the homicide rate.
The less guns=the safer the community.
Thats why the US has a homicide rate higher than any other developed nation in the world. That is why there are more people in America's prisons than there are in the whole of Australia. If America wants to be "great" again, it needs to:
a)educate its people.
b)make the process of attaining a gun a much harder process.
Now, I'm going to sit here and watch all the gun-lovers swarm over this forum denouncing and claiming that guns are the answer to all of the world's problems. Wasn't it guns which killed people in WW2? Wasn't it a gun which shot JFK/ Martin Luther King? Wasn't it a gun that killed dozens of people in a Virginian University.
That sort of loss-of-life is non-existant here because of one thing- the restriction of guns in the general community.
T

lol and what pray tell is wrong wif cheese in a spray can???? i think it rather brilliant. :P

and omg Blue....... dun u dare get any of those ideas when you cook MY meals!!!!

I will never get over black pudding. I'm scarred for life! And I thought Oxy's use of saran wrap was traumatizing!!! (Oxy = WhiteDarkness)

Blame everything on guns Cuz it wasn't our government that killed JFK it wasn't a crazy lone gun man. Who had really good aim with a crappy rifle. A crazy person can always get a gun off the streets. If a criminal really wants a gun they don't walk into a gun store, wait 2 weeks, and then go on a killing spree. Guns in the wrong hands is the problem. The government makes money off the sales of arms. I mean look a US government agency in charge of protecting US citizens sold guns to a Mexican drug cartel. And all they say is Yes we fu*%ed up. Without guns the people can't protect themselfs,the criminals would still kill people,and the government would tell you to shut the ?uck up. Freedom isn't free all the soldiers that died for this great country are rolling over in their graves. Did u not listen to the JFK post. Go back listen to it until u hear him say an announced need for security. Listen to his words. They are trying to disarm us,to control us,to rely on them for everything. Wendy is right the real WW3 will be fought between the people and govt. When u people wake up it will be to late for you. Yes u may say Wendy is crazy,smokes your nuts. My response would be I Hope I am nuts and this $hit won't go down. Google Georgia guide stones. Reduce world population to 500m. Guns aren't the problem its the ignorant people sitting there while the world goes to HELL. Rant over. One last thing Tom the government makes the guns not people like u and me. They gave them to us it wasn't our choice. Now they wanna take them away along with you. But they will still have guns. They will never give up their guns. Face it no matter who has the guns and weather u hear about the murders they still happen. Just in secret. Away from the public eye. Cough Nazi America cough.

You're dillusional. Saying that having a gun will protect you is rubbish. Saying that people will win a war against their own government with guns (at least in the developed world) is rubbish.
There is a thing called peaceful protest.
Also, ever wondered what that crazy person who went around shooting people would have done had he not had access to a gun.
My country has survived without guns, even when there are three huge and overly populated countries (*cough* Indonisia *cough* India *cough* China) eyeing off our huge natural resources and open fields (I live in Australia, which happens to have a low crime rate thanks to stricter gun control- thank god.)
Yes, things happen that we don't see which are horrendous, awful. The fact is however that the world governments/illuminati/alien infiltrators (whatever you believe in) aren't out to kill you, the US, Australia, and Europe are not the super-secretive autocratic regimes Hollywood has made them out to be.
You said that ignorant people is the reason the world is going to sh*t. You are partially correct. It is also because nutjobs are allowed to gain too much power without gaining responsibility. Giving a redneck a gun will not help anyone. Hitler was given too much power- tens of lives and 2 atomic bombs later we realised our mistake.
The fact is that Europe/Australia has survived without guns and their countries haven't become regimes. The world is not full of evil people. Only a few thousand named Al-Qaeda who inspire fear through their crazy actions. Ever since 9/11, people have become more and more insensitive and oblivious to change- Americans have stuck to their guns while their country implodes socially, politically and economically, while the world has watched, stunned, as a culture alienates itself.
Hollywood has inspired the uneducated masses that guns are good as they protect people from other people wishing to do harm, while the truth is that the less guns there are in a society, the better it is.

No one has a chance to defend themselves if they are shot through the head.

I await your denial and denouncing of my statement.

Tom Morgan, I am very pro gun as it pertains to a person's right to self defend. For you to say to believe in such is delusional is very wrong of you. I promise you this....every criminal will have access to a gun whether it is legal or no. So us law abiding citizens who don't because it is the law, let's say, will stand there protectionless????? Is that right? Rubbish, I say. I'm the daughter of law enforcement... you ask a police officer their thoughts on the topic.

Having said this, I am not in favor of violent protests. But I promise you this, it is the 'riff raff' who do so. Your decent person and law abiding citizen wouldn't behave in such a mannerism.

You call me delusional, I'll nuke ya or have ya nuked! How u like them apples? :P

Hey lori dont steel my line, how do u like them apples i already said something loke that somewhere on this thread.