Lazs they were drunk and fooling around damaging peoples property and trying to stop the traffic Threatening drivers who stopped. Fairly aggressive and frightening some members of our community and destroying some guys building project. They weren't south central type gang bangers or weapon wielding thugs. So yeah I did as you would, I yelled at em told em to bugger off and then called the cops.
But the point was if I knew they might be carrying a gun that could hit me from some distance I wouldn't have been able to do that unless I had a weapon too in which case a simple situation would've got very complicated and deadly very quickly. The point being that our relative lack of guns makes things a bit easier to deal with and a whole lot less dangerous!
Now as regards the US I don't think you guys could turn the clock back and get rid of guns. Not without some pretty heavy handed search and destroy all weapons type of activity. So I guess you guys are stuck with it. But that isn't neccessarily a great thing. You are fond of telling us we're lily livered softys or some kind of neo facist country for having strict limitations on firearms. But you don't get it any more than you think I do. We don't have to carry weapons own weapons and we are secure in the knowledge that people who do are few and far between, and though things aint perfect, I'm a whole lot happier with that than the armed society you got going over there. I think our version is better and I believe I'm entitled to that view! You seem unable to accept that another way to the good ole USA might actualy work. Honestly I feel sad for you guys having to be armed to protect each other. Thats no society I would want to live in.
Now that'll do I think. Before I get lambasted for telling you guys what I think. Just remember Lazs and others its you guys who keep raising the guns issue and making barbed comments about our way of life govt etc too, this things swings both ways. If you don't want to hear another point of view why keep hijacking threads with the gun thing?
Oh and I'm not some mucho macho wannabe testosterone fuelled hero. I'm just a regular bloke who doesn't want to let the dumb, bad and anti social people run my life! And I reckon I'm one of a majority who I wish would get up and form a coalition of the good, against this minority of scumbags with no respect and no idea of responsibility.
Someone I forget who had a sig that said.
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing", or something like that anyhow!
Few rant over. Sorry bout that .
