More evidence that gun control works...

[Dreaded Claymore]

Let them fend for themselves this time around. They want a socialist paradise, so let them live with the consequences.

We'll be happy to welcome over here anyone over there who was opposed to all that BS from the beginning. The rest can rot in the cesspool of their own making.

Hopefully V will show up eventually and stab/shoot the bastards, and blow up Parliament.

[ghostrider4evr]

What a mess it is over there.

[Werewolf1021]

Saved for posterity and arguments. Love it when a plan comes together.

[CEDaytonaRydr]

It's not England's fault! 90% the guns being used for crimes are from the U.S., correct?



I can't wait until they jump on the Mexican bandwagon and start blaming us for their problems. You guys know that train is comin', right?

[Maestro Pistolero]

Lancashire suffered the single largest rise in gun crime, with recorded offences increasing from 50 in 1998/99 to 349 in 2007/08, an increase of 598 per cent.

[traptrix]

That is why I prefer to live here. I grew up in London and came here in 1999, all of my British friends tell me that I did well to get out as it's just gone down hill since I left.
I'm happy not to live in a country where I can't own any firearms and where the most popular name for boys is Mohammed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324194/Mohammed-popular-baby-boys-ahead-Jack-Harry.html

I would never take my family back there to live.

[Dreaded Claymore]

That is why I prefer to live here. I grew up in London and came here in 1999, all of my British friends tell me that I did well to get out as it's just gone down hill since I left.
I'm happy not to live in a country where I can't own any firearms and where the most popular name for boys is Mohammed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324194/Mohammed-popular-baby-boys-ahead-Jack-Harry.html

I would never take my family back there to live.

Doesn't seem like such a bad name to me, as long as the guys named Mohammed don't leer at me threateningly, can communicate with me, and aren't too shy to sit with me at the same lunch counter. All of which they do here. This country's fantastic.

[J.D.Allen]

That is why I prefer to live here. I grew up in London and came here in 1999, all of my British friends tell me that I did well to get out as it's just gone down hill since I left.
I'm happy not to live in a country where I can't own any firearms and where the most popular name for boys is Mohammed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324194/Mohammed-popular-baby-boys-ahead-Jack-Harry.html

I would never take my family back there to live.

Well, welcome. We are pleased to have you. We hope you enjoy it here.

[traptrix]

Doesn't seem like such a bad name to me, as long as the guys named Mohammed don't leer at me threateningly, can communicate with me, and aren't too shy to sit with me at the same lunch counter. All of which they do here. This country's fantastic.

It's more a reflection of how much the UK has changed in the last 11 years, than a reference to a single name. Crime is spiraling out of control and the demographics are changing rapidly too. I am not suggesting that people called Mohammed are responsible for the crime wave they are not, it's a load of idiots wearing hoodies.
The UK is a very different country to the one I left at the end of the 90s.

[traptrix]

Well, welcome. We are pleased to have you. We hope you enjoy it here.

Thank you. I love it here.

[Dreaded Claymore]

It's more a reflection of how much the UK has changed in the last 11 years, than a reference to a single name. Crime is spiraling out of control and the demographics are changing rapidly too. I am not suggesting that people called Mohammed are responsible for the crime wave they are not, it's a load of idiots wearing hoodies.
The UK is a very different country to the one I left at the end of the 90s.

That kinda sucks, and I feel for you.

[LAWABIDINGCITIZEN]

If the Brady Bunch read this article they would come up with some statistic like:


"In The Fiefdom of West BuckingHamChesireNottingShire, illegal firearms ownership is down by 100%. See, the laws work!"



In actuality, they confiscated a firearm replica cigarette lighter from an antique shop and that's what gets counted as a success.

[Glock22Fan]

Let them fend for themselves this time around. They want a socialist paradise, so let them live with the consequences.

We'll be happy to welcome over here anyone over there who was opposed to all that BS from the beginning. The rest can rot in the cesspool of their own making.

Most of us are already, I think, over here.

However, I do feel somewhat sorry for those who might have gone along with us, but were overwhelmed by the peer pressure. The last ten or twenty years I was over there, being a gun owner wasn't a comfortable situation when surrounded by city dwellers (the farming types always were much more accepting of firearms).

Do you know that Far Side cartoon where the buck has a target on his chest and his friend says "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal!" I had that on a t-shirt (bought over here) and got a lot of criticising wearing it over there from Brits who saw it as glorifying killing.

[kcbrown]

Most of us are already, I think, over here.

However, I do feel somewhat sorry for those who might have gone along with us, but were overwhelmed by the peer pressure. The last ten or twenty years I was over there, being a gun owner wasn't a comfortable situation when surrounded by city dwellers (the farming types always were much more accepting of firearms).

It is precisely that mindset (of conforming for no reason other than "peer pressure") that results in the loss of freedom for all, and there is precious little distance between someone who will instantly conform to the demands of his peers and someone who will participate in the forced conformity of others.

Freedom means being able to be different if you choose, and those who would attempt to "strongly encourage" conformity tend to be the same people who have no respect for freedom.

Do you know that Far Side cartoon where the buck has a target on his chest and his friend says "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal!" I had that on a t-shirt (bought over here) and got a lot of criticising wearing it over there from Brits who saw it as glorifying killing.

I don't doubt it. I'm not familiar with that specific cartoon but I laughed out loud when you described it.

[Trench Broom]