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Originally Posted by Nick
...Guns don't shoot people, people shoot people.
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amen, good quote
Spent a lot of time in the States, and it is a different culture, which a lot of Brits don't understand, but the right to bear arms is deep in the nations tradition. In North Carolina for example, while I was there, you could carry a concealed weapon, but it had to be displayed on the passenger seat when entering military installations.
I remember people checking in weapons at a night club in a sleepy backwater, which was an eye opener. But then, have also sat in a bar in Cyprus, and watched a Policeman get drunk as a skunk, with his machine pistol still round his neck.
Then of course you get 8 year olds in Africa dragging round FN Semi Automatic Rifles
Sometimes its a sad scary old world, especially when the little ones get hurt
I do wonder how long we can hold back the gun culture in the UK, it's slowly been sliding over the years, but we should be proud of our policeforce who by and large are still unarmed.