On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:30:28 -0000, SeaNymph <
SeaN...@deepbluesea.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/2016 1:38 PM, Bod wrote:
>> On 11/03/2016 19:31, Bod wrote:
>>> On 11/03/2016 19:27, SeaNymph wrote:
>>>> On 3/11/2016 1:13 PM, Bod wrote:
>>>>> On 11/03/2016 18:24, SeaNymph wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/11/2016 8:53 AM, Bod wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/03/2016 13:39, SeaNymph wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/11/2016 3:48 AM, Bod wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/03/2016 22:09, Oren wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:07:55 -0600, SeaNymph
>>>>>>>>>> <
SeaN...@deepbluesea.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> What's it to you, seriously? You don't live here, you just
>>>>>>>>>>> rag on
>>>>>>>>>>> things you see to not truly understand. Why are you so afraid of
>>>>>>>>>>> guns?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Exactly. These two clowns come here and call Americans stupid,
>>>>>>>>>> make
>>>>>>>>>> innuendos, off the cuff comments and act SO superior in their
>>>>>>>>>> intellect. When it comes to actual guns facts, they can't or won't
>>>>>>>>>> debate the facts. They should worry about their own backyard.
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> Both are hoplophobes: A person who is afflicted with an irrational
>>>>>>>>>> fear of firearms. The gun cooties scare them.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Don't be silly, why would we fear guns. There are over 2 million
>>>>>>>>> registered gun owners in the UK, but the difference is that we
>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>> feel the need to carry them around with us.
>>>>>>>>> I owned a shotgun years ago.
>>>>>>>>> You seem to hold a lot of disinformation about guns in the UK.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh? Yet you don't think your broad, general, absolutely
>>>>>>>> unsupportable
>>>>>>>> statements about why people own guns, or what they do with them,
>>>>>>>> are a
>>>>>>>> bit off the mark?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not everyone who owns a gun carries it around with them. I ran
>>>>>>>> across
>>>>>>>> ignorant people like that when I worked for Exxon. These guys
>>>>>>>> wouldn't
>>>>>>>> go into a bar because they believed they'd get shot.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> I'm talking about people who feel the need to carry a gun for
>>>>>>> protection, not gun ownership per-se. Nothing wrong with owning a gun
>>>>>>> for sport/target shooting. 2 million do that in the UK, but of course
>>>>>>> the conditions of ownership here is very stringent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many people have good reason to carry a gun for protection. That is
>>>>>> simply a fact.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I'll take your word. I live in a land without guns so it's hard to
>>>>> comprehend your life over there.
>>>>> Maybe if I lived there a few years I might get to understand what you
>>>>> mean.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I understand your inability to grasp how people live here, if you don't
>>>> live here. By that same token, since you do not live here and are
>>>> unfamiliar with much of what goes on, it makes no sense to me that you
>>>> would so negatively discuss people who do carry guns. I have a right to
>>>> keep and bears arms. I exercise that right if I feel like it. I see
>>>> nothing wrong with it.
>>>>
>>>> Again, 2 different backgrounds doesn't mean that one is right, or better
>>>> than the other. A bit of an open mind is helpful. Frankly, I can't
>>>> understand the way you live over there.
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>>> >
>>> Understood.
>>>
>> Just to add to that..... erm! how can I say this without offending
>> Americans.... over here anyone who has a gun on them is classed as a
>> coward. That's not to say you lot are, but that's the view here.
>> I'm slowly getting your drift though.
>> That's our psyche.
>> Please don't take offence to that comment, I'm just stating a fact :-)
>>
> Why is that? Seems a strange thing to think. Maybe it makes sense
> there, but I don't think it would here.
Because you need a gun to protect yourself. Tough guys protect themselves with their fists.
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