Europe-Thy Name is Cowardice

DIE WELT ^ | anuary 7, 2005 | Mathias Dapfner

[Highest Authority]

What can you expect from countries who have let their governments take away their guns?????

[Marine_Uncle]

" John Howard in Australia is really steping up his actions... Britain...in spite of Blair's best efforts really seems on the edge ...."
Agree in full. I can only admire the spirit of John and Tony in support of US policy as well as their concerns about world wide terrorism in general. Australia and Britain have to strong leaders that must be given leeway when it comes to the gwot. Like I say something you are not accutely aware of.

[the scotsman]

Highest,

'taking away our guns' is a nice NRA myth.

The British people have never been a gun-owning people.

The most weapons legally owned(and this included all types of pistol,rifle and shotgun) was 1.75 million registered weapons.

Out of a population of 60 million.

EVEN if it was one weapon to one person(which of course is nonsense) it meant only one Briton in THIRTY EIGHT owned a weapon.

And given that most British weapons owners owned MANY multiple weapons,you are probably talking about closer to literally one in a hundred!...

MOST British people have never held or fired a weapon.
MOST British people have never even SEEN a pistol,rifle or shotgun up close.

Me?.

I never owned a firing weapon.BUT I did and do own many replicas(many,btw,and keep this quiet lol.....can be rechambered easily to fire for real,as they are the 1st gen late 70's/early 80's replicas which could and can be fiddled about with by an expert gunsmith,of whom I know one or two,in order to be reworked as real firing pistols.The newer replicas are built so they cannot be changed).

I also own several 'airsoft' pistols and rifles which fire 6mm metal bullets and can kill and maim at 100 yrds.

Not to mention a crossbow and several sets of Samurai swords.....lol