Lazs! I've been a bit hard on you in the past, so I don't want to start another argument just yet.
GTO - Oh, OK!

You were winding me up. I don't know you well enough to have noticed any change in your sig. - was that a wind-up too? Better that you are a wind-up merchant than
yet another gun toting American salamander. There are plenty of those, and the trouble is that we've had at least two copycat crimes over here as a result- Hungerford & Dunblane. Both of 'em caused by pathetic social misfits.
But I am concerned to know why so many Americans feel the need to have guns. I am well travelled in America - have lived and worked there and have probably been to more states than anyone else on this board.
(spent the most time at Springfield,IL, Mt. Prospect,IL Concord,CA, Golden,CO & New York City - upper west side/85th St.) But I never found the need for a gun while I was there, not even in New York which, thanks to Rudi, is probably safer than London. At home, there's no need for a gun. I sleep easy at nights with the windows open, but I do not live in London.
Lazs (and others) have expressed that the USA is a better place to live than Europe - dare I say "pissant" countries, without re-opening old wounds? And yet you guys in the US are the ones who feel sufficiently insecure that you need guns, whereas we pissants do not. As Lazs knows, I always like to
substantiate what I say, so here are a few quotes from Americans that make me glad to be a pissant.
[list=1]- I did have a time when I felt I needed it to protect my home, since my next-door neighbor was dealing drugs and he had some very unsavory people coming around.
- Try living in a thugged out run down part of one of the worst cities in the US to live in (DC) and then tell me people shouldn't be allowed to own guns.
- That criminal coming through your window right now, the one with the gun pointed at your head.. yeah you take away the right for the people to own guns, he's still gonna have that gun, and it will still be loaded, and it will still be pointed at YOU.
What kind of neighbourhoods do you guys live in to need guns? I've seen Lazs's area from his car pics, and it looks OK - I wouldn't bother too much about a gun if I lived there. But when I look at quotes like those above, it makes me glad to be a PP - Provincial Pissant. Where I live is mostly tranquil. I live just a few minutes drive from
this spot - hugely popular with Americans, judging from the number I run into.