@1, of course no system works perfectly, but isn't it something how a mass gun murder is rare there and bothers the citizens, whereas here we shrug whenever it routinely happens.
But you know that, you're just being contrary. BTW I somehow imagine your house having gun cabinets and ashtrays in every room, and at least one set of horns mounted on a wall somewhere, if not on the hood of your car. Close at all?
Ten thousand points to the author of the "We're all just holograms" article for not referencing The Matrix even once. It's wonderfully affirming that occasionally, reporters know to let obvious cultural references go unmade.
@1 guns are not illegal in GB. In fact in Cumbria the authorites are reporting a registered 22,476 licensed shotguns. That's about 1 licensed shotgun for every 20 man, woman or child in cumbria, or about 1 shotgun for every six families, and that's just licensed shotguns. Hardly illegal.
Once again Sarah Palin shows her vast intellectual heft (which Katie Couric wouldn't let her reveal during that gotcha session of an interview in 2008).
She also shows why Obama's "Bay of Rigs" (as Rush put it yesterday) will be the reason she crushes him in 2012 in a 50 state sweep.
And you WILL remember to pay me off when that "50 state sweep" comes up say, 40 states short - assuming of course that Palin actually makes it onto the 2012 GOP ticket.
Otherwise, I will have to brand you publicly on SLOG as a cowardly welsher.
"Deadly shootings are rare in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted. In recent years, there have been fewer than 100 gun murders annually across the country.
Rules on gun ownership were tightened after two massacres in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1987, gun enthusiast Michael Ryan killed 16 people in the English town of Hungerford. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland.
About 600,000 people in Britain legally own a shotgun, most of them farmers and hunters in rural areas. Witnesses described Bird as using a shotgun or a rifle."
But you know that, you're just being contrary. BTW I somehow imagine your house having gun cabinets and ashtrays in every room, and at least one set of horns mounted on a wall somewhere, if not on the hood of your car. Close at all?
It is impossible, actually.
Just like swearing clergy to an oath of celibacy means they won't molest kids.
ever.
O-I-L-I-E-E-E !
First cums sludge
Then comes carnage
Then comes money in a political pay-off!
She also shows why Obama's "Bay of Rigs" (as Rush put it yesterday) will be the reason she crushes him in 2012 in a 50 state sweep.
Put money on that!
I'm down for $50.
And you WILL remember to pay me off when that "50 state sweep" comes up say, 40 states short - assuming of course that Palin actually makes it onto the 2012 GOP ticket.
Otherwise, I will have to brand you publicly on SLOG as a cowardly welsher.
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But put me down for $200.
"Deadly shootings are rare in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted. In recent years, there have been fewer than 100 gun murders annually across the country.
Rules on gun ownership were tightened after two massacres in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1987, gun enthusiast Michael Ryan killed 16 people in the English town of Hungerford. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland.
About 600,000 people in Britain legally own a shotgun, most of them farmers and hunters in rural areas. Witnesses described Bird as using a shotgun or a rifle."