WOW! this guy really skipped over the most important part. The purchaser would get a background check at the "retailer" before the buyer could take the gun home. This writer is a complete liar.
Despite what the author says about no gun crime in England, eviidently the gun crime rate almost doubled after the ban went into effect.
“I kind of like how it feels in my hand,” I tell him, lying. The gun’s entirely deactivated. It can’t even be switched to “fire” from the safe position. A thin yellow cable prevents anyone from holding the trigger down, and there’s a gaping hole where the magazine should be. But despite all these clearly necessary precautions for displaying a semiautomatic rifle in a place containing tens of thousands of people, my palms are slick with anxiety. I need to leave. Now. “
I got this far and had to stop reading. NOW. It was making me sick! What a panty waist A**hole, OH MY GOD a gun!! it’s going to kill someone.
“...I realize as I leave that, no, I’ll never squeeze the trigger of an AR-15, that I’ll never own a handgun...”
Another culturally insensitive anti-intellectual. He tries to make it seem he tried to understand us but he never dropped his guard with his anti-gun and anti-freedom bias.
Ah, he forgot the last part of the story.
A mugger comes up from behind him, puts a knife in his back and tells him how relieved he was that this idiot was unarmed.
This is the kind of moron that would should someone while having some gay snit. Guns don’t kill people, Democrats do!
I am suprise the girly man wears pants
Whether they're talking to your face or writing an article, it's just one lie after another with these liberal filth.
[ There are no metal detectors, and it's kind of assumed that most everyone has a gun. I'm not sure if that makes me feel more or less safe, but I certainly can't get it out of my mind. I brush past a guy in combat shorts and feel his handgun brush against my leg. I briefly long for the Tube at rush hour, where the things that brush against you only leave a rash. ]
He would rather have a rash? What a bizarre statement. He also uses the word "fulsome" incorrectly.
His paranoia about guns was ridiculous.
Further: the AR-15 was not used at the Sandy Hook School.
But even if it were... it does not negate the Second Amendment in the least.
This guy comes across like some sort of propagandized fool.
“It’s when he says “they’ve accepted the media lie that the NRA is malicious” that things start to turn. Thousands of eyes turn toward the media. I get the same feeling I had holding that AR-15, only this time they’re holding the metaphorical Bushmasters, and I’m the intruder at the bottom of their stairs.
oooooooohhhh.... scary.
Hmmm...what if the list-reading lady had been a Christian with pamphlets at a muslim convention...
Your typical snotty-nosed limp-wristed Brit faggot dripping with anti-Americanism from start to finish of his supposed ‘’objective’’ look at “American gun culture’’(whatever that is). Doesn’t matter much really. Ten years, fifteen tops and England’s done. We probably won’t be too far behind sadly.
Can a precision instrument be described as “rough hewn”?? Is he confusing it with a stamped out AK-47?
Personally, I’m for giving this Brit a break. He’s new to the USA, but at least he chose Texas to move to.
Lets give it awhile and see if Texas can work his magic on him.
If this idiot doesn’t kill or maim anyone it’s proof positive that guns are safe.
Well, I understand why the UK no longer rules much of the world and Islamists feel free to murder a soldier in daylight on a public street.
Obviously this guy is from the UK...
He's full of Shiite.
Given this backdrop, I was drawn to Houston by the chance to shed some light on Americans' fondness for guns — more than a third of households have one, although that number is falling — WRONG!
"I'm from outside the gun debate," I tell them. "I'm a neutral. ... WRONG!