When you move to our violent country, then you'll need a gun. We'll be happy to assist you with a nice selection.
WHY don't Americans realize GUNS are destroying their country?
by Witness 007 334 Replies latest jw friends
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Hortensia
Americans aren't the only ones with problems. For instance:
The Globe 2006 issue 2
http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/publications/theglobe/globe200602/gl200602_p3.html
The use of alcohol in Europe
The EU is the heaviest drinking region of the world, although the 11 litres of pure alcohol drunk per adult each year is still a substantial fall from a recent peak of 15 litres in the mid-1970s. The last 40 years has also seen a harmonization in consumption levels in the EU15, with rises in central and northern Europe between 1960 and 1980, met by a consistent fall in southern Europe. Average consumption in the EU102 is also closer to the EU15 than ever before, although substantial variation remains within the EU10. Most Europeans drink alcohol, but 55 million adults (15%) abstain; taking this and unrecorded consumption into account, the consumption per drinker reaches 15 litres per year.
Institute of Alcohol Studies
http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/publications/alcoholalert/alert200701/al200701_p2.html
Anew analysis of the mortality statistics for the UK shows that the death rate from alcohol defined conditions, mainly alcoholic liver disease,virtually doubled between 1991 and 2004.
It also shows that in Scotland, the death rates for both males and females were around double those for the UK as a whole. As can be seen from the table, 15 of the 20 areas with the highest male death rates from alcohol are in Scotland.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1534076
The Russian rate of alcohol consumption is among the highest in the world, with annual consumption estimated to be nearly 15 liters per person (Nemtsov, 2000; Treml, 1997). By comparison, rates in the European Union and United States are about 10 and 7 liters per person, respectively (World Advertising Research Center, 2002).
For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated that the proportion of disease and disability attributable to alcohol in Eastern Europe is the highest in the world, accounting for more than one fifth of disability adjusted life years lost for males
http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20031021IE13
The alcohol-related death rate increased by 50 percent along with the growth of alcohol consumption from the beginning of the 1980s to the turn ot the millennium. At the end of the 1990s, alcohol-related deaths among working age men exceeded the number of male suicides.
In recent years, male alcohol-related deaths have declined slightly, despite the continued growth of alcohol consumption. -
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oompa
reniaa: Lets just say I'm happy to be living in England and leave Americans and their cognitive dissonace of guns well alone.
i am happy you are there too!...but even in that safe haven...if some crackhead breaks into your flat....and starts to stab or rape your kids or yourself....or your mate....and while it is happening......i bet you would think...(and for sure you will now)...damm i wish i had a loaded 9mm in my nightstand next to my bed.....ya....like that.......oompa
i dare you to tell me different
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purplesofa
purplesofa,
Good stuff, thanks.
-LWT
your welcome!!!
purps
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avishai
Canada is a bad analogy, way less of a population, as well as the fact that it DOES have lots of guns. Just not handguns. And most of these mass school shootings are not done with handguns, it's rifles.
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buffalosrfree
Witness 007, isn't 007 i.e. James Bond a license to kill????? You sound like a typical person who is scared silly of guns, if you don't like em don't use em, we like em and we use them. I have 5 and in process of acquiring more.
Reniaa or whatever you should stay in england, we don't want your wimp ass here either.
I have a hunting bow, fighting sticks, guns, machette and I am an avoid collecter of knives and have been trained in how to use them, wheich would you prefer i defend myself with, if i use a gun i may miss , likewise with the bow (very small chance) but with the sticks, knife or machette 100% guarantte of getting you. You think about that. and hopefully you will never have to have hoped you had one of these handy incase of violence perpretrated against you.
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reniaa
hi oompa since america also has the largest incidence of accidental deaths involving children playing with their parents guns, I think I'm still glad not to have deadly weapons around the house.
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HappyDad
Thank you brother IP_SEC,
You said it all for me.
I'll keep my guns handy because by the time the police get here to protect me, my body will have lost at least 20 degrees!
If someone kicks my door in and refuses to leave via their own two feet, then they will leave in a body bag.
I like the quote that Charlston Heston made............
Fox News Channel
September 15, 1997
"... There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. ..."
HappyDad (an American gun owner)
P.S. Hasn't the Aussie crime rate skyrocketed since the confiscation of guns? -
avishai
40 reasons to support gun control:
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Arlington, VA's high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics."
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994, are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up no defense — give them what they want, or run" (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).
10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns and Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady [or Sheena Duncan, Adele Kirsten, Peter Storey, etc.] for firearms expertise.
12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1791, refers to the National Guard, which was created by an act of Congress in 1903.
13. The National Guard, funded by the federal government, occupying property leased to the federal government, using weapons owned by the federal government, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a state militia.
14. These phrases," right of the people peaceably to assemble," "right of the people to be secure in their homes," "enumeration's herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people," and "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people," all refer to individuals, but "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" refers to the state.
15. We don't need guns against an oppressive government, because the Constitution has internal safeguards, but we should ban and seize all guns, thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments to that Constitution.
16. Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense, which is why the army has millions of them.
17. Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they serve no military purpose, and private citizens shouldn't have "assault rifles," because they are military weapons.
18. The ready availability of guns today, with waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting, government forms, et cetera, is responsible for recent school shootings,compared to the lack of school shootings in the 40's, 50's and 60's, which resulted from the availability of guns at hardware stores, surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, mail order, et cetera.
19. The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, and the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign is responsible social activity.
20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun is "an accident waiting to happen" and gun makers' advertisements aimed at women are "preying on their fears."
23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26. A self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a "weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."
27. Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
28. The right of online pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self-defense only justifies bare hands.
30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.
31. Charlton Heston as president of the NRA is a shill who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
33. We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
34. Police officers, who qualify with their duty weapons once or twice a year, have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.
35. Private citizens don't need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
36. Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.
37. "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people, which is why the police need them but "civilians" do not.
38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.
39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.
40. When Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out of the wrong hands," they don't mean you. Really.