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Old 07-17-2012, 03:21 AM   #136
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How does the UK's gun violence compare to Switzerland, where all adult males have assault rifles in their homes?
Im curious what point you are trying to make? It seems completely unconnected to DBJ's post.

But the Swiss stats are much worse than the UK stats when you factor in population size and ignore Northern Ireland for obvious reasons (and even then the stats have come down massively since the ceasefire).
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Old 07-17-2012, 02:24 PM   #137
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So if you drop Northern Ireland, can we remove NYC, Chicago and LA from our gun stats?
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Old 07-17-2012, 02:29 PM   #138
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So if you drop Northern Ireland, can we remove NYC, Chicago and LA from our gun stats?
You're forgetting D.C., which up until the Heller case had simultaneously the most draconian anti-gun laws in the US while also having one of if not the the highest per-capita murder rates in the country.
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Old 07-17-2012, 02:31 PM   #139
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You could make an entire thread on why that happened*, but in the meantime lol at that not being a great argument that gun control works.

* well, I could cos I lived through it and thought about it a lot, its a really complex problem that happened
My argument is not about gun control with the knife blurb. It is humans find ways of effing each other up with or without guns. Guns are really not the problem. Human beings are the problem.
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Old 07-17-2012, 02:32 PM   #140
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Re: Sorry officer you got the wrong address...

True.

I was on the wrong chart, I was looking at raw numbers, not per capita.
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Old 07-17-2012, 06:48 PM   #141
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How does the UK's gun violence compare to Switzerland, where all adult males have assault rifles in their homes?
I assume this is related to mandatory military service? I was talking to some guy from Austria once and I think they have a similar thing there, but I seem to remember him saying the government comes and inspects your guns/ammo a couple times a year to make sure you don't use them and you have to take mandatory classes yearly or something like that? I think he said any purchase of ammo you ever make is tracked to you based on some number you have to give.

Basically allowing your trained military reserves to keep their weapons at home under super tight restrictions seems to have no relation to deregulating ownership of firearms.
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Old 07-17-2012, 08:14 PM   #142
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people not looking to shoot anyone don't point their weapon at others...

unless you're the world's largest retard, even people who don't own guns know not to do that
He may have assumed they were burglars and hoping they would retreat without any shots fired.
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:38 PM   #143
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do they shoot if he's holding a baseball bat (non-lethal weapon in this situation) instead of a gun (lethal weapon in this situation)?
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Probably.
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lol
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Warning: video shows actual police shooting of a man armed with a golf club (sorry no bat)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFEHlkr0lHs
amazing sequence, lol BAIDS

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Phil is not making sense.
big shocker there
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:44 PM   #144
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So if you drop Northern Ireland, can we remove NYC, Chicago and LA from our gun stats?
I must have missed the terrorist insurgency happening in NYC, Chicago and LA in the news.
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:47 PM   #145
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I must have missed the terrorist insurgency happening in NYC, Chicago and LA in the news.
Ever heard of the Zetas, Latin Kings, Folk Nation and etc?
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:51 PM   #146
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Wait, you dont think Britain has gangs?

And you think gang activity can compare to a full on terrorist insurgency?
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:54 PM   #147
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I know you guys have your own gangs...

But you asked DblJ about throwing out #s in those cities. Hell, I think it was in Chicago that the Outlaws blew up a store front in similar fashion to the IRA.
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Old 07-18-2012, 12:44 PM   #148
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Ever heard of the Zetas, Latin Kings, Folk Nation and etc?
lol, the avg person does not have to worry about them.


btw, any word if this cop is under arrest\custody
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Old 07-18-2012, 12:53 PM   #149
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I wonder what would have happened if the gunfight had gone the other way and the guy had killed all of the cops? Acquittal, or life in prison?
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Old 07-18-2012, 12:57 PM   #150
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I wonder what would have happened if the gunfight had gone the other way and the guy had killed all of the cops? Acquittal, or life in prison?
lol if you think that if this guy would have shot the cop first , he would be alive today to stand trial. He would have been shot and killed that night regardless.
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