US Gun Laws?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

How many more acts of madness will it take for the Yanks to ban assault rifles?

It's not like the Comancheros are still rampaging around, raping and raiding - is it?

[sinkov]

So you ban the sale of guns, what's to stop the next drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

So you ban the sale of guns, what's to stop the next drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete ?

A small firearm discharge right between the eyes usually stops a drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete dead in their tracks mon ami.

It's the military grade assault weapons the Yanks can buy in their local Walmart store that are constantly killing kids in their schools sinkov.

[ClaretinBudapest]

How many more acts of madness will it take for the Yanks to ban assault rifles?

It's not like the Comancheros are still rampaging around, raping and raiding - is it?

And the kevlar vests and clothes are totally OTT in a normal society.

[barrie_burn]

Too late,the guns are already out there.

I was appalled when I was in Alaska.Candidates for elections had NRA supporter on their boards and when I visited an afternoon fete mainly for kids the big stand in the centre had guns all out on display which would frighten the life out of most people over here.

[sinkov]

A small firearm discharge right between the eyes usually stops a drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete dead in their tracks mon ami.

It's the military grade assault weapons the Yanks can buy in their local Walmart store that are constantly killing kids in their schools sinkov.

I reckon a drug-crazed maniac with a machete can see off quite a few kids before a security guard with a gun turns up mon ami, or are you advocating an armed guard in every classroom ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I reckon a drug-crazed maniac with a machete can see off quite a few kids before a security guard with a gun turns up mon ami, or are you advocating an armed guard in every classroom ?

That's a daft sentence mon ami. A person with evil intent can always find ways to "see off quite a few kids" but an assault rifle certainly speeds up the butchering process.

I have always found it odd that us "lefties" advocate gun control (remember Dunblane?) whilst shall we say the more fascist, right wing inclined Trump/Republican supporters, prefer it so heavily armed whack jobs can run around school campuses slaughtering kids with military grade assault weapons.

I don't get this thought process and never will.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just read that the 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and “began shooting anyone that was in his way”.

A drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete would not be able to do that mon ami. Armed with a military style assault weapon he could and he did.

[ClaretinBudapest]

Here in Hungary there is a porter at every school.Surely it would be worthwhile to have safety doors fitted which the porter could activate if he smelt danger from an intruder.It would not be a big investment and could save lives in the long run.Just a thought!
I was approached about 15 years ago by a gentleman from the town I lived in if there would be any interest in the UK for a special bulletproof glass he had invented.It can stop rounds from a Kalashnikov.At the time I did not think much of it but now he could probably get orders for it.

[sinkov]

That's a daft sentence mon ami. A person with evil intent can always find ways to "see off quite a few kids" but an assault rifle certainly speeds up the butchering process.

So you're happy for them to be butchered slowly ? I suppose I can see your point, 10 dead kids hacked to death slowly is preferable to 20 blown away in seconds. Personally I'd like to see a more thorough investigation into what's frazzling the minds of these nut-jobs, but you Lefties don't seem to want to go down that road, could it be because the **** blowing their minds is the same **** you would like legalised ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The Yanks simply need to stop the easy availability of obtaining military grade assault weapons. No idea why cannabis is brought into your argument, but you are not being lucid on this topic which is most unlike you.

The gun lobby, the NRA and crackpot Republicans spouting horse$hit is what's frazzling the minds of these nut-jobs...

[sinkov]

23 killed, most of them children, over 1,000 injured in Manchester, England five years ago. No gun lobby, no NRA, no crackpot Republicans spouting horse$hit here, but,

"Salman Abedi, the Manchester terrorist attacker, smoked cannabis and dropped out of the University of Salford (where he was studying for a business degree)."

You need to do a bit of research mon ami, instead of your typical Lefty knee jerk reaction.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

23 killed, most of them children, over 1,000 injured in Manchester, England five years ago. No gun lobby, no NRA, no crackpot Republicans spouting horse$hit here, but,

"Salman Abedi, the Manchester terrorist attacker, smoked cannabis and dropped out of the University of Salford (where he was studying for a business degree)."

You need to do a bit of research mon ami, instead of your typical Lefty knee jerk reaction.

I suppose this nonsense came out of the Daily Mail sinkov?

On the other hand, a new Texas decree has allowed gun owners to openly carry a handgun in the state without the need to obtain a licence, background check or training.

By introducing the law, Texas joined nearly two dozen states allowing some form of unregulated handgun possession.

Rifles were already allowed to be carried in public without a licence in Texas, even before the new law was introduced.

The move was supposed to be a part of the Texan Governor's pledge to keep Texas a "bastion of freedom".

Could you imagine the carnage this country would suffer if we allowed whack jobs like Salman Abedi open access to military grade assault weapons?

It is totally incomprehensible to me that a person can go into a Walmart in the US and leave with a rifle and be allowed to be carried it in public without a licence in 2 dozen US states. WTF is wrong with these people?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

So you ban the sale of guns, what's to stop the next drug-crazed lunatic running amok with a machete ?

You could have written this sinkov: "On Tuesday, Mr Gosar tweeted that 19 children and two adults killed by a shooter at Texas’ Robb Elementary School were victims of a “transs-e-xual leftist illegal alien”, according to screenshots of the post seen by HuffPost and Insider.

[ClaretinBudapest]

23 killed, most of them children, over 1,000 injured in Manchester, England five years ago. No gun lobby, no NRA, no crackpot Republicans spouting horse$hit here, but,

"Salman Abedi, the Manchester terrorist attacker, smoked cannabis and dropped out of the University of Salford (where he was studying for a business degree)."

You need to do a bit of research mon ami, instead of your typical Lefty knee jerk reaction.

This was also totally avoidable Sinkov.You can thank your own governments for the Manchester bombing-they indirectly funded it.