No wonder the firearm murder rate per 100,000 people in the US is 71 times ours in the UK. It's not just the amount of guns it's the quality of person with access to the guns as Norway, with the same rate as the UK has 30 firearms per 100 people whereas the US has 90 per 100 people but again 71 times Norway's firearm murder rate.
another 'merica you couldn't make it up moment
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Jeez, that guy making those receivers...
Which can be easily made, which means if someone goes out of their to make the gun it will never be registered.
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I thank Science everyday I don't live there...
Yeah IMO (I've spent some time in the US) the "firearms" problem in the US isn't as much the proliferation but the attitude towards protection of their rights is so extreme it allows people access to them that in any other country wouldn't get within a mile of a loaded gun as they won't entertain for a second anything that might erode the right(s) no matter how bonkers it might be from a logical/reasonable perspective.
By far the larger number of gun owners over there are very aware of the responsibility of it and the potential consequences in a way that I don't think anyone who has spent their entire life in the UK could comprehend (or a lot of their views towards their constitutional rights, etc.) - I know I fully don't but have some insight.
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While chatting to the welder he said he shot it for the first time today and loved it. We got around to why he bought an AR15 and he said because he was under 21 he wasn't allowed by law to have a Hand gun, only an assault rifle !!
Thats the American way i guess..
hand guns are pretty tightly controlled in the UK too btw...
also it was likely a semi-automatic rifle not an assault rifle
rifles at least have other uses such as hunting etc...
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I just don't understand. How are these people even in existence?
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I approve.
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That guy is a dick though, even the most ardent pro-fun people have taken umbrage with autists like that.
Just because you can walk around the streets carrying a long-gun doesn't mean you should. Even more-so when you're obviously just doing it to get a rise out of the authorities to post on Youtube and not in defence of your second amendment rights.
If you're going to open carry then carry a holstered pistol like a normal person, not a ****ing tacticool AR15. Knobs like that give the sensible pro-fun lobby a bad name.
you can get .22 AR15's, I imagine it'd hurt but it'd take a lot to take someone down
Not really. You do realise the standard NATO battle rifle calibre is .223 right? (Which is only fractionally larger in diameter, not noticable to the human eye)
The main difference is the amount of kinetic energy, a typical .22LR round doesn't have anywhere near as much stopping power, but they can still kill easily enough. All depends whether they hit anything vital, and whether they 'tumble' around inside you or not. (I'll just leave you with that image... )
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Indeed. I just don't get this gun culture thing. It's absolutely daft, crazy and pretty sad too.
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Love it.
I assumed this thread would be about Ted Cruz.
When I read ‘receiver’ I was expecting something interesting about communications equipment not toys for Yanks.
Sport?
Both target shooting and hunting. Nothing wrong with owning a weapon for either.
Saying that I wouldn't disagree that the U.S. has a very unhealthy fascination with guns... Then again I think that about most of the people I know in the UK with rifles as well (not that I know many)...