As if we needed any more evidence that England's gun ban has been a total failure, just look at the recent story from Time magazine. Twenty percent of Britons surveyed say they fear leaving their homes at night because of the rising tide of violent teens.
Violent crime committed by those under the age of 18 has climbed by more than a third in the past three years, with no sign of it falling any time soon. These violent teens are partly responsible for the rise in knife- and gun-related crime in the country. Yes, crimes involving firearms are increasing, even though it's been a decade since the country banned handguns.
Talk to a former British gun owner, and he or she will tell you, "Don't let it happen in America." Gun bans don't work to reduce crime. They haven't worked in D.C., and they haven't worked in England. A "tough-on-guns/soft-on-crime" approach is lunacy, but that's exactly what they're doing in England. Frankly, it's what the gun-banning politicians are trying to do in Philadelphia right now, by pushing for more gun control laws without even mentioning the criminals committing the violent crimes.
Every day politicians try to blame law-abiding gun owners for violent crime is another day lost in our fight against the gang members and drug dealers who target our children. How long will the politicians play the blame game instead of tackling the problem head-on? Do things have to get so bad that we're afraid to leave our homes? Do we have to wait until we turn into England?
Computer games, violent films, lack of parental control, lack of respect for Authority!
PS. GGREPORTER..............It's BRITAIN, not ENGLAND!! Great Britain, British Isles or the UK even But not ENGLAND; you don't know how much that term pisses off the Brits who are not English. Your Education system is sadly lacking at times when they teach yáll about what's on the other side of the "pond"!!
Computer games, violent films, lack of parental control, lack of respect for Authority!
PS. GGREPORTER..............It's BRITAIN, not ENGLAND!! Great Britain, British Isles or the UK even But not ENGLAND; you don't know how much that term pisses off the Brits who are not English. Your Education system is sadly lacking at times when they teach yáll about what's on the other side of the "pond"!!
Rant over!
If you folks didn't have such funny accents, maybe we'd get it right We did have an incident where someone "hoisted the colors" upside down--the difference between the top and bottom is somewhat more subtile than ours.
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Isn't the UK's (well besides Ireland) economy dropped and immigration gone up? I have a friend over there and I was emailing her (she is studying over in England working on her masters degree) and jokingly asking her if british chicks really were all that ugly, and she responded yeah, if you can actually find a british chick.
I don't think the gun ban will have any effect on crime anywhere really. From all the studies I have read, for the most part gun control on both sides of the spectrum (banned, or totally legal) don't impact crime at any effective rate. It raises it slightly in some cases, lowers it in others, and doesn't affect it at all in some cases. So, really the impact on gun control (whether it be neutral, positive, or negative) really is not that effective at all, and by no means eliminates crime. There are so many factors involved. Now, I haven't read any studies on gun bans in the USA because they aren't banned anywhere, just restricted in some areas, and I guess hand guns are subjective to that.
If you look at the UKs problems with their economy and their immigration problems, and their government starting to fail because it is overwhelmed (health care, immigrants, crime, the EU, economy, etc) with so much, I think you can kind of parallel it with the same problems we see in our country.
So, we can logically deduct from that being said, that gun control in the US wouldn't impact crime really at any rate, and would not be effective.
now dont get me wrong im only 14 but im fine my parents are uasualy around but the kids that are like this are usualy dropped off at a daycare and also when my dad was a kid they never had a school shooting and all of the boys had atleast one gun in their truck and the kids that thought about it had it beat out of them back then when ou could fight it out it was alot better becouse they didnt keep all that anger bottled up until they shoot someone. my 2 cents
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Tlarkin,
Yes we have the same sort of problems you have with the economy and immigration and the EU doesn't help one little bit. We can't even deport the illegals we catch because you might be infringing on their human rights! bah Humbug!
As for the British chicks, well, I spent 8 months working in Texas last year and if that is an indication of American chicks, I would say an even match!! Neither country can hold a candle to the Far East.
Yes the number of legal firearms held has negligible impact on the crime statistics, now in the UK for sure only the criminals are armed.
Gun control does not impact crime in the slightest bit. Look to Switzerland, there they have real gun control, with many citizens having full auto weapons at home!
Tlarkin,
As for the British chicks, well, I spent 8 months working in Texas last year and if that is an indication of American chicks, I would say an even match!! Neither country can hold a candle to the Far East.
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Well those bible thumpers over in KS are trying to get fully autos available to their citizens....
I know that your health care system has been doing great since WWII, but your recent and increasing numbers of immigrants has put a damper on it. In retrospect it has hurt our private health care system as well. I mean no one in my country can actually afford health care. I went to the ER once for a minor thing, and when i got my bill it was like 5 thousand dollars, luckily my insurance covered all of it by my deductible, but that would break me if I had to pay that. My friend had his appendix burst, and he is poor with no insurance and I think he owes like 15 thousand or something for the surgerey and hospital stay. So, it is asinine on both levels, because if you provide free health care you have the same problem, but you don't have hospitals going out of business for sure. You just may have a waiting list for non essential treatments to survive, and with an overly increasing population that just gets harder to maintain unless you expand your health care.
As for texans, well, they don't speak for every american woman. You go to like NYC or like LA, and you will see some of the most gorgeous women ever. I have dated a few gorgeous ones from the midwest as well, but they are a bit harder to find in the Midwest over the coasts, but you are also trading the east/west coast attitude as well.
Yea, but the chicks as you're calling them, in L.A. and other money areas of California, seem to be all about looks and money. In the end, they're not all that happy with their lives either. I mean, has anyone ever watched the series/show, real women or real mothers of Orange County or whatever it's called? All about looks and money. No morals or ethics what so ever...
In reading the article, I felt it was more about how children are out of control, which is every where just at different levels, and I only saw one reference to guns. And that had to do with the children using them or knives to commit crimes.
As for the Brits not having them anymore, I don't think if they did it would have helped much. Don't think they were allowed to CCW them anyhow. Or were they allowed to CCW? What it does show, in the one or two sentences I read and saw on guns, it shows that the ban has only affected the law abiding responsible making a contribute to society. And the problem with this, it probably gets overlooked and over shadowed by what's going on with the children over there.
I truly don't believe those in office will even see the fact one has to do with the other.
In my book, it kept the criminals and out of control children in check. Gave people an even playing field. But that too I'm afraid will be overlooked and won't matter.
I hate to bring it up, but I will anyhow.
I completely have to agree with A.H. in that these are signs that have been foretold and are coming to pass. If anyone, and I mean anyone thinks it's bad now, just wait. If this/these things are a sign of things to come, this is mild compared to what is still to come.
MHO anyways. FWIW anyhow...
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Food prices are on the way up. Revolutions happen when people get hungry. This could be a big deal, especially in the nations where there isn't much to eat (and a significant portion of your $ goes to just staying alive buying food). This can fortell adversity would we do nothing to reverse the process. May be right, Glock and A.H.
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Yea, but the chicks as you're calling them, in L.A. and other money areas of California, seem to be all about looks and money. In the end, they're not all that happy with their lives either. I mean, has anyone ever watched the series/show, real women or real mothers of Orange County or whatever it's called? All about looks and money. No morals or ethics what so ever...
Never watched it, and I said you are trading the looks for the east/west coast attitude as well. I agree.
I only stopped and took a quick peak. Never once watched an entire show. Looked to stupid to even waste my time on it. Just reinforced that they are all about looks and money and all it took for me to keep right on flippin' the remote looking for a good war movie or something. lol
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You know what I found sad and horrible. The Nanny 911 show. The show sucked but man looking into those peoples homes. Kids who could eat all the candy out of a closet full of candy they wanted. Kids who mommy and daddy never said no to. Kids who hit their parents all they wanted and nothing happened to them. I watched a couple of the shows because I wasnt repoing that week and I could not believe what little to no parenting was going on in those homes. No wonder there is so many problems with kids today.
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When I was young we got our a&& whipped when my brothers and I did something wrong.I'm not talking about a beating ,theres a difference...Now you whip them and they will call the cops on you!!! I don't know about any of you but my brothers and I turned out just fine for having our butts whipped.If we had hit our parents,it would had been the last time we did it...Respect is lacking within alot of the youth today!
We did have an incident where someone "hoisted the colors" upside down--the difference between the top and bottom is somewhat more subtile than ours.
