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philip · 08-09-2008, 01:34 PM

Is it true the UK doesn't have a football (soccer) team at the Olympics?

philip · 08-20-2008, 12:03 AM

Is it true UK homeowners can not have a gun in their house for self protection?

Daggernite · 08-20-2008, 02:00 AM

We aint alloud to own guns for any reason. But we are having a knife problem over here.

RC45 · 08-20-2008, 02:01 AM

What about shotguns for shooting clays?

Mattk · 08-20-2008, 02:13 AM

All shooters go to the Isle of Man. Actually, the last high profile shootings were actually perpetrated by recreational shooters who went and fetched thier guns from their club and shot people.

pitfield · 08-20-2008, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Mattk

All shooters go to the Isle of Man. Actually, the last high profile shootings were actually perpetrated by recreational shooters who went and fetched thier guns from their club and shot people.

Were they really???

IF you want to own a gun you must prove that you need it and must have your worthiness signed off by a doctor. Then the police need to come over and inspect the gun cabinet you must have installed in your home.

Most gun crime seems to come from the South London area, there's a bit of gnang type action there.

pitfield · 08-20-2008, 04:50 AM

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-v...ime/gun-crime/

Mattk · 08-20-2008, 07:18 AM

Yeah, I heard Nigel Evans speak recently and he mentioned the shootings in passing when he was talking about recreational shooters in England. I didn't check the accuracy afterwards, but it's not exactly something worth making up.

philip · 08-20-2008, 09:42 PM

Thanks, for the information.

George Harrison (former Beatle) died of throat cancer, but his battle with cancer took a turn for the worse when a lunatic broke into his walled UK home late at night and stabbed George. His wife hit the intruder over the head with a lamp or she might have also been stabbed. George was a pacifist and would never probably had a gun at home for his safety, even after John Lennon was killed in New York by a lunatic with a handgun.

I just was not sure he could have had a gun if he wanted to.

Mattk · 08-20-2008, 11:42 PM

I didn't know that! How interesting.

Pokiou · 08-21-2008, 01:34 AM

I'm just curious as to why you would want to ask such questions.. To me and only me it sounds like your taking the micky out of the UK.

lincoln · 08-21-2008, 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by philip

Is it true UK homeowners can not have a gun in their house for self protection?

We're not allowed to protect ourselves at all. A while back a man broke into a second floor flat to feed his drug habit and in the ensuing fight with the two occupants he fell out of the window to his death. Did they get medals? No, they were charged with murder!

Originally Posted by Pokiou

I'm just curious as to why you would want to ask such questions.. To me and only me it sounds like your taking the micky out of the UK.

We deserve it! We've gone from being the greatest country on earth to an international joke. Over here if you are lazy, feckless, immoral, criminal, an illigal immigrant, a terrorist or bad for this country in any way you have 'rights'. If you are a car owning, law abiding, tax paying, hard working benefit to society you only have 'responsibilities', go figure.

F250 · 08-21-2008, 06:26 AM

I've always been amused by how Clarkson, Hammond and May complain about taxes, congestion charges, traffic cameras, etc. but ultimately accept whatever Her Majesty's Government does.

213% total tax on gasoline in Britain! Bloody hell! We'll get through it somehow!

The English government wouldn't dare pass half the laws, taxes and regulation of the last twenty years if the population was armed.

A police offer friend of mine was assigned as laison to the Secret Service when the President of the United States visited Cody, Wyoming. The guys who ride around in black Suburbans behind the Presidential limousine told him, "We need to set up and maintain a 100 yard firearms-free zone around the President at all times."

My friend replied, "You realize that most Cody residents own rifles that are good to 300 yards or more, right?"

F250 · 08-21-2008, 06:34 AM

Oops!

styla21 · 08-21-2008, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by lincoln

We deserve it! We've gone from being the greatest country on earth to an international joke. Over here if you are lazy, feckless, immoral, criminal, an illigal immigrant, a terrorist or bad for this country in any way you have 'rights'. If you are a car owning, law abiding, tax paying, hard working benefit to society you only have 'responsibilities', go figure.

Really well said. I feel sadly that Australia gone in the same direction.