The thread about guns and stuff like that!

[Carcassian]

Ludicrous, but also a good idea.

 

[Vilden]

Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.

Seriously, do you really believe that? Oh yeah, the holocaust happned because of too strict gun laws? That was pretty funny. :>

 

[Einherjar86]

It's worded badly, but there is still a point to the information. He's saying that people might have defended themselves if they had been in possession of guns. However, I highly doubt that gun control caused The Great Terror of Stalin's regime; but if the kulaks had had guns, there might have been slightly more resistance.

The Great Terror and the Holocaust had more to do with the regimes' superb military power, organization and efficiency rather than citizens having guns. I doubt that militarily untrained civilians would have been able to put up much of a fight even if they had possessed firearms.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

lol, its just a copy/paste

 

[TheAnonymous]

That was pretty ridiculous. If the police came to your house, would you shoot them? A place where people would do that definately sounds like a safe and harmonic society...

 

[Ben_t]

lol, its just a copy/paste

Don't worry, I doubt anyone here was expecting you to come up with something that "intelligent"...

 

[Vilden]

lol, its just a copy/paste

Obv, but considering your stance on guns most people assume you paste it because you think it is a good argument, not for ridiculing. Hence the question if you really believe it.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Its a good thing that guns are banned in the UK. Fucking idiots.
Maybe they should ban axes too?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...in_article_id=562603&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

Father confronted by axe-wielding burglars - but police are too busy to turn up for THREE hours
By DAVID WILKES - More by this author » Last updated at 22:52pm on 28th April 2008

Cowering upstairs with his partner and their two children as a gang of burglars wielding an axe emptied his living room, Mathew Sims wasted no time in calling 999.

But instead of the immediate response he expected, the police told him: "We're too busy to help."

Within minutes, the burglars drove off with a haul of stolen property.

Officers only turned up at the family's home three hours later. By then all they could do was take statements.

The burglary happened shortly after 11pm last Tuesday.

Mr Sims, 24, heard his dog barking then noticed the kitchen light flicker on downstairs.

He pushed open the door and was confronted by eight intruders, wearing balaclavas. One had an axe.

He slammed the door shut - and was hit by flying glass as one raider swung the weapon at him, smashing the pane.

Mr Sims ran upstairs to Sarah Barham and their children Lewis, six, and Macey, five. They barricaded themselves in a bedroom and held the door shut.

"Thankfully, the men didn't come upstairs, but I was worried about my children's safety," said Mr Sims.

"The minute we knew these people were in the house we rang the police, but they said it would be at least half an hour before they could come out."

The burglars' haul included a PlayStation 3, a sat-nav device, a wireless internet router, mobile phones and 24- year- old Miss Barham's bag, keys and bank cards.

Mr Sims, who lives in Arnold, near Nottingham, added: "Nobody from the police had turned up half an hour later, and when we rang again they said there was no one they could send.

"They said officers around the area were looking for the cars we had described and anyone suspicious, but we didn't see one police car come past.

"Then we had a call to say no one could come out to see us that night and we should get our heads down and someone would be there in the morning.

"We were kicking up a fuss, asking why no one could come when we had had people in our house. I ended up putting the phone down in frustration."

At 2.30am, officers arrived at the house to take statements.

Yesterday, Chief Inspector Andy Burton of Nottinghamshire Police said in a statement: "On this occasion the way control-room staff dealt with this incident fell way short of the standard I expect.

"The force has apologised to the family by way of letter and I personally have contacted the family this morning.

"An investigation is being carried to find out why there was not an immediate response and any findings will be shared with the family."

Mr Sims, 24, who lives only a mile from a police station, said: "I told the police I could have had my head cut off. But still no one came.

"We need to feel safe in our home. We couldn't sleep afterwards. It took a couple of days to feel okay."

Miss Barham said: "They should have responded and made us a priority, not turned up three hours later.

"I'm scared to go to the shops on my own now. I keep thinking what would have happened if Mat hadn't been here."

Nottingham was recently named Britain's burglary capital.

House burglary levels in the city are 63 per cent above the national average, according to a league table which is compiled from insurance records of areas where a homeowner is most likely to experience a break-in.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Oh wow one instance of this happening, fantastic!

 

[Carcassian]

I have been a police officer in my town for twelve years and have only ever seen one gunshot wound.

Thank god we don't have liberal gun laws, or I would no doubt see many more.

 

[Zephyrus]

All I can picture now is the dude in your avatar wearing a bobby cap.

 

[Carcassian]

"Bobby cap" ?

WTF ?????

I don't wear no stinkin' uniform, hombre.