British Gun Laws

[Stríbog]

They're not in Britain.

From what I can gather, it's basically impossible to legally possess anything other than single-shot 19th century style firearms in Britain today.

"Our friends across the Atlantic did tighten their already strict gun laws, with the Firearms Act of 1997, making self-defense with a firearm completely impossible for ordinary people."

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/20/115342

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1997/97005--a.htm#1

[Loki]

From what I can gather, it's basically impossible to legally possess anything other than single-shot 19th century style firearms in Britain today.

There is no real need for guns in Britain. This is not the Wild West...

[cosmocreator]

There is no real need for guns in Britain. This is not the Wild West...

But there is an increasing number of "white"-hating immigrants.

[Loki]

But there is an increasing number of "white"-hating immigrants.

True, but civilians are not going to start shooting them. That's what the police is there for..

[Stríbog]

There is no real need for guns in Britain. This is not the Wild West...

So much for "Germanics" valuing individual liberty, rule of law, and personal right to self-defense... the only people the police are going to shoot are the rightist dissidents, after the next wave of thought-crime bills sweep through.

[Loki]

So much for "Germanics" valuing individual liberty, rule of law, and personal right to self-defense... the only people the police are going to shoot are the rightist dissidents, after the next wave of thought-crime bills sweep through.

Again, your hatred for Germanic people knows no bounds. You will even employ these thoughts in a debate about gun ownership laws... reality check for you perhaps, eh Stribog?

By the way, ever heard of Michael Moore? ( ) Bowling for Columbine was a very popular documentary in England recently...

[Stríbog]

[QUOTE=Loki]Again, your hatred for Germanic people knows no bounds. You will even employ these thoughts in a debate about gun ownership laws... reality check for you perhaps, eh Stribog?[QUOTE]

I didn't say anything about hating "Germanics", which I don't, I object to Germanic supremacism... I'm more "Germanic" than most of the people telling me I am anti-Germanic, and I actually speak some German

I was referring to the claims made in the past by several high-ranking members that government oppression, restriction of personal choice, and restriction of firearm ownership were "un-Germanic." I think the history of gun control in Britain, Holland, Germany, and Scandinavia shows otherwise.

By the way, ever heard of Michael Moore? ( ) Bowling for Columbine was a very popular documentary in England recently...

That only proves my point, that the English are irrationally afraid of firearms and will happily surrender the only thing protecting their property and person. An unarmed man is not a citizen, he is a subject. I'm surprised you cite someone as anti-racist as Michael Moore for your purposes.

[Scáthach]

Personally while I can see the value in the American right to own arms, I would find myself far more worried about the type of people here who could *also* acquire weapons if I could. Still, all the gangs have them already

[cosmocreator]

The main reason the public should have an irrevocable right to own firearms, is to protect itself from a government that turns against them. Plus foreign countries are much less likely to attact a country where the civilians are armed. A government can surrender long before an armed civilian do.

[Phlegethon]

The idea that private firepower even theoretically can prevail in a standoff with government firepower is so absurd that it can only originate in the skull of a yankee.