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SAMUEL.D.RYAN

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Mar 17, 2007
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It seems really silly, because nearly every time i hear about some american doing something, it usually has something to do with his/her stupidity.

Maybe i'm building a very stereotypical image here, but why give people like that free access to guns?
 

Baca Loco

Ex-Fun Police
Watch 'bowling for Columbine' in it they show an american bank giving out free rifles when you open an occount, and you xan buy ammo in wal-mart. So I guess theyre just not so bothered about the kids running about with paibtall guns when most of them run about with real guns. I personally think its a really good thing that you can't do it over here. Scary stuff if you could.

Katxx
Thanks for the laugh, kids. If all you know is what some piece of Micheal Moore agitprop tells you you know zip, zero and nada. :) Different guns are classified in lots of different ways in different jurisdictions but nowhere can you walk into a Walmart and walk out with a handgun, for instance tho in some places you can purchase assorted types of long guns.
And while you lot may associate paintball guns with real guns (almost) nobody over here is quite that silly.
 
cool thanks for clearing that up.

but a paintball gun can kill after all there has been reported deaths in america from being hit in the eye.
so if it has happened in america why sell paintball markers in flipping supermarkets?
but then again 18 people have been reported to be killed by vending machines in america lol
or was it 80
 

Baca Loco

Ex-Fun Police
cool thanks for clearing that up.

but a paintball gun can kill after all there has been reported deaths in america from being hit in the eye.
so if it has happened in america why sell paintball markers in flipping supermarkets?
but then again 18 people have been reported to be killed by vending machines in america lol
or was it 80
By that line of reasoning all paintball markers should be banned everywhere, shouldn't they?
And Walmart isn't a supermarket, at least not by the definition of that term over here. It's a department store. Are you suggesting paintball guns should only be sold at paintball stores and if so how does that provide any superior margin of safety? Seems to me idiots and morons can buy from a paintball store as easily as anywhere else. Maybe the gov't should license the retailers or make you register your markers to hopefully limit the number of idiots and morons who can get their hands on them. Surely it's worthwhile to increase the expense and inconvenience and interject gov't control over thousands if it saves one possible bad act, right?

Btw, smugness and ignorance are a very entertaining combination. Thanks.:)

Re: Gun Culture. "Comparing the same period for the same offences in New York show a Londoner was five times more likely to be a victim of violent crime than a New Yorker," he said. "It's a sad day for this country."

Re: vending machines. The only reliable resource suggests that over a fifteen year period there were 37 deaths attributed to numbnuts tipping over vending machines. I'm guessing since you peeps can barely deliver mail effectively nobody over there even tries to keep track of such esoteric statistics :p but regardless anyone anywhere killing themselves with a vending machine is doing the rest of humanity a favor.