Originally posted by Angus
"Yes, as long as the local Barney Fife doesn`t hold any personal or unwritten prejudice against you"
? Explain please.
What part don`t you understand?
As absolute rubbish, since criminals in countries with rather stiffer laws (such as up here) are having trouble with arming themselves.
Talk about your rubbish. Having trouble arming themselves my aching back. You know not of what you speak. Exactly what are you basing that little gem of a theory on? There are very, very few places around the globe that you cannot obtain gun more than easily.....unless of course you are a law abider. Then if you are under bans , heavy restrictions, etc. you are at the mercy of the attacker if and when the time comes because you can`t be trusted by those in power. You might get a little cocky and get out of hand. You don`t have a clue what is going on in the criminal world.............other than "My Government tells me so". they know what`s best for you .
There are always some arms around, but not much.
LOL Plenty enough to be easily had if at any given time someone wish to put the hurt on someone else......especialy since they have had any chance of defense taken away from them.
Not much of them here I'm afraid.
The murderers usually become ones after a scruffle, so it's a thing like a fist or a knife that usually is the weapon.
Well I certainly hope that someone in power up that way is on top of this and immediately proposed knife/fist bans.
No gun victim for years now, but oddly the last one was from a handgun.
The shooter law enforcement or one of those non-existent type?
There was this guy running around with a rifle the other day, but since that could be seen from a mile away, he had the SWAT in his driveway before he could say "Amen".
Can`t have that. Want us to look into sending some of our Ninja garbed ATF guys up?
As for the pesky citizens they don't have assault rifles like you can buy on the gunfairs in Oklahoma, nor do they have automatic handguns.
I am still waiting on your definition for "assault rifle". I am patient , but it seems like your research has bogged down.
But they do have automatic shotguns and non-automatic rifles, as well as automatic light rifles (up to .22 magnum lever operated as well).
I assume you are referring to semi-auto.
Bottom line again, it is much more unprobable that a criminal in Europe is armed than in the USA, and as well it is much more unprobable to find oneself on the receiving end of a bullet, or looking into a barrel.
Those unlucky one`s that do end up on the receiving end probably take great comfort in their death knowing that their government took away any chance of defense against their attackers. They are just stat spoilers anyway.
It is not at all more unprobable that a criminal is unarmed anywhere if they are armed. It is a given that it is not only probable, but a fact ,that if your right to like defense has been taken away by a governing body you are at the total whim of the armed attacker......and you will be looked down upon for being a stat spoiler.
It`s reality.
As long as you are not the one laying in the casket and believe your governing body has a right to totaly dictate over your life and defense of that life. Then again you are really pushing things because you happen to be one of those mishappen, unlucky goofs that was at the wrong place, at the wrong time and ran into one of those uncharted/unstatable criminals who just as soon take your life as not. Don`t those guys ever read the laws? If they did they would know that the government is doing their absolute best to protect them from ending up accountable at tally time.
There should be a law put in force in such places that prohibits you from standing in the direct line of fire from an unstable`s gun fire. The nerve of some citizens to waste the criminal`s ammo and then go on to mess up the stas. Sheesh!
On the other side, if you break into a house with evil intentions, even mine, (you can walk in, I don't know where the key is anyway), you may just as well find yourself looking into a barrel,
As you are fumbling around in the dark locating and getting a general direction of the intruder, if he just happens to be one of those " a few , but not many" types.....close your eyes so the flash will not blind you as your are going down. Those criminals refuse to go by the laws. Just unfair to those of you that have been left without the tool to equal the chances of survival. there ought to be a law................
What is this about an assault rifle anyway?
I don`t know. I am still awaiting your research into your definition of such.
I am looking for a decent sniper rifle to drop them geese at 250 yards or more.
Uh Oh.............now you are going to have to add another one to the research definition list.
If I am getting close to the type of firearm that you are talking about, I might as well get it off my chest and confess to being guilty of owning such a thing at one time.
A custom built benchrest rifle. Remington 700 action, Douglas bull barrel, 6 to 18 Redfield scope (Oooh how I wish they still made them scopes. I could then become a star gazer:) )
Canjar double set trigger...........fitted, relieved, floated, glass bedded. Accuracy to the point of shame.
Of course that was then. I have since cleansed myself of such an evil contraption.
It went almost everywhere I did in a vehicle for a long period of time. Made so much cash with that thing that I still have feelings of guilt.
Did support my family though two really bad winters though. Shameless, I`m telling you.
I tell you what. I may have sold that thing just in the nick of time before I ran upon a circumstance by accident and been tempted to do something really stupid with it...............like save a few innocent lives. Take for instance if I had been unlucky enough to have ran upon and incident such as the big bank robbery shootout that happened in California. You know the guys with the full autos that we peons can`t possess without selling our sole, but those guys can...because they are criminals and or not bound by such sillyness....... not to mention the full body armor they had.
Since that rifle went in the vehicle most everywhere, and I had happened to be in such a situation, I could have and most definitely would have, sat at a comfortably safe distance and popped those exposed melons in a very short time and at will.
Wheeeeeeew.....lucked out on those accounts. Someone so equipped in such a situation would have saved a few innocent folks from being on the recieving end of those hits.
Then there would have been ruckus. Such a thing would have left the highly educated and misguided gun ban /gun control freaks totaly without proper media stats.
If there had been a law prohibiting those criminals from being in possession of such firearms at the time all this could have been avoided....right?
No wait..............those laws would only apply to the law abiding portion of society. The criminals are not hampered by such things.
It`s a good thing too. If the average, law abiding citizen were allowed to have such things in their possession at will then those morons wouldn`t have lasted long enough to do all that damage.
It just wouldn`t be fair to the career criminal.
