Your views on gun laws in the UK

[rz30]

Personally i would love to be able to legally carry as a form of self protection as they can in Texas, the sense of self protection appeals to me. Even the churchmen in various states in America arm themselves.

But, can you imagine they legalised guns in Britain, it would be a pretty nasty outcome to say the least, because we are not a mature people, in the states they treat guns with so much respect and it fundamentally adds a whole new level to respect and responsibility that i sometimes wish i could be part off.

Compare the US to the UK for example, we are so conditioned to not protect ourselves and to have fairly controversial sentencings that it must really dumb us down a lot. Imagine we could all be armed and yet have utmost respect for our firearms. I suppose I'm saying, why can't we be more like the Americans.

 

[rz30]

I assume you're kidding on both those points.

No i'm not kidding, they have always had the right to carry weapons over there. They don't see it as we do, we see it as imminent death, they see it as self preservation. So no i am not kidding.

 

[rz30]

They do not treat guns with respect in the United States, quite the opposite in fact.

I totally disagree, if you took account the number of guns in America Vs. the number of gun crimes then it's actually tiny, yet we have many crimes over here(overall we have the second most crime in the world - after the US).

 

[rz30]

Citation needed.

It's been about 1 year since i've read them, trying to find it again, watch this space.

 

[rz30]

Tony Martin would also have been convicted in most US states too, shooting someone in the back as thy are running away isn't counted as self defence in most places!

Good point. America is a very legalistic country. They try and balance out freedom with crime. And they have a very particular model to do so, i.e their constitution, it's quite different to ours, but yet they have some of the best minds in the world, they have a freedom that we just don't have over here and the right to bare arms(in certain states) is one of them, but with that freedom comes more crime, that goes without saying, but i just like the idea of having that level of personal freedom. Maybe we are more morally superior, i usually think we are. I think we are more socialistically caring anyway. Just an idea and comparison. I think what annoys most me is when people become so paranoid and distrustful i feel we have become that way to some extent.