[stylin19a]

...what I perceived as a gun protruding underneath it

so, was there a gun or not ?

[tuffydoodle]

“so I ran out with my daughter in her pram, leaving my purchases on the counter, and legged it across the street. My daughter was wondering why we didn’t get her apple juice, and I was vexed I didn’t have my Mexican beers after my ordeal.”

So your daughter can drink apple juice while you get wasted? What a mommy you are.

[Howie66]

When you say: “I love America-but....” You DON’T.

End of discussion.

[hadaclueonce]

Don’t feel safe?
Stay home in London.

Watch out for those long knives.

[libertylover]

America’s attitude against totalitarian government is refreshing, not to mention rare. The 2nd Amendment protects the entire “free world” from totalitarian government.

[MuttTheHoople]

Mick

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sorry Babs. It’s America’s attitude towards guns that causes me to love her. No asshole will ever be able to take away my freedom as long as I’m armed.

[sergeantdave]

“At least two-thirds of Americans have lived or live in a house with guns, and half of all white men own a gun..”

Fear the white man, Barbara McCarthy, fear the white man. The fearsome white man is not about to turn over America to a bunch of snowflakes. Spread the word, baby.

[shanover]

many have their flag outside their house and a gun inside.

DAMN RIGHT so fek off and "get off my lawn" bint!

[Tudorfly]

Return to Ireland. Or become a real American, one who supports the American constitution. If you can’t do that, then back to the first choice: return to Ireland. We have enough whiners here already.

[familyop]

"No matter how many mass shootings there are, around 310 so far this year, 13,000 homicides and 22,000 suicides by guns,..."

And over 72,000 dead last year from drug overdoses.

[familyop]

"'Yeah, when they come, we're loaded up, they're not getting into my house. F***, no,' I've heard people say to me, shaking their head. I'm like, 'Who? We're at a hippie festival. What enemy?'"

Yeah, what I said. Over 72,000 dead last year from drug overdoses. Add murders committed by dope fiends (hippies) during home invasions, armed robberies, psychotic rampages, etc.

[familyop]

"Only 250 gun deaths last year were by shooting the bad guy,..."

How many of those criminals stopped their attacks without being killed? Probably very many.

[Charles Martel]

Americans are the friendliest people, they're open and non-judgemental - yet many have their flag outside their house and a gun inside.

I wouldn't expect one of Her Majesty's subjects to understand.

[Secret Agent Man]

No its attitudes towards criminals are horrendous.

You execute murderers.

She is of the same ilk that kill the unborn and cry for leniency of the murderers.

[Lurker]

“So California’s tighter gun laws were the problem?”

Yes, they are. Now go make me a sammich.

L

[Who is John Galt?]

Eliminating the criminal possession and misuse of firearms (or knives, or matches) via legislation is essentially impossible. One might just as well argue that we cut to the chase, and pass a law mandating immortality.

It might be amusing to transport the author back in time, a century or so (something just as feasible as eliminating all guns, or making every one of us just like Connor MacLeod). Firearms were much more common in her part of the world during her great grandmother's time. Were it possible, I imagine something like the following occurring, almost immediately:

Author: "OH MY GOD, HE'S GOT A GUN!!!"

British gentleman: "Since I am carrying one of Holland's better .375 Belted Rimless Magnum Nitro Express rifles, and am unable to assist you, would you please - quickly, if possible - remove your hand from my breeches? There's a good lass!"

;>)

[CodeToad]

If you remove the crime committed in black and illegal alien neighborhoods, America is the safest country on the planet, besides 4 other really tiny nations.

[Elsie]

But others can't see that guns have anything to do with it, even though more people have died from guns in the US than on the battlefields of all wars.

... 10 times more future American citizens have died from CHOICE in the US than in the furnaces of Germany and Poland.

[Elsie]

...often when the enemy comes you're in a bar and you won't have access to your arsenal.

The SMART ones of us carry EVERYWHERE!