Well, to play Devil's Advocate
Dunblane might have played out very, very differently if the children were armed.
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 10:44, Reply)
Dunblane was tragic, but should not have been an excuse to disarm the vast majority that are not total bellends. Maybe just arm the teachers for the time being until the year 6's have passed the glock proficiency test.
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 10:54, Reply)
The vast majority of the UK public *are* total bellends, though.
The only countries where (relatively) liberal gun laws were working were Switzerland and Austria, and Austria has recently just made a good example of why even historically 'safe' civilian gun ownership can go tits up.
There's no good reason at all for handing guns willy nilly to civilians in population centres. It's a different story if you live in the Alaskan/Canadian wilderness and run a genuine risk of coming face to face with a grumpy 42+ stone ursine, but giving your average garden-variety fuckwits guns to protect themselves from other average garden-variety fuckwits with guns is a fucking ridiculous justification for public firearm ownership.
Fuck me, the majority of these absolute hee-haws embellishing lamp posts and mini roundabouts with the St George's Cross would probably qualify for gun ownership if the UK adopted the American system.
What benefits do you see from arming the general population of the UK? Who are we protecting ourselves from? Do you honestly think that the relaxation of gun laws in the UK would result in fewer gun deaths? Or even a reduction in violent deaths in general?
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 11:22, Reply)
They maybe majority bellends where you live, but I have a lot more faith in the people around me.
I don't have faith in any government, those spacktards ban ninja swords and want to remove the pointy bit from kitchen knives... like that's going to fucking solve anything.
Let them put up flags all they want if that's what floats their boats... the lefty twats have been putting up whatever flags they want for years without the councils having a meltdown. It would be a lot more fun to watch angry middle class guardian readers dodging bullets whilst up an arkwrights ladder trying to remove the type of flags they don't like.
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 16:15, Reply)
So your argument for sanctioning public gun ownership in the UK is 'It'd be cool'?
Do you find it difficult to go more than one day without consuming alcohol?
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 18:52, Reply)
The public can own guns in the UK Huw. I know a girl aged 27 who has a fuck off hunting rifle. We just don't let cunts like you have them because you'd go round fucking killing people with different opinions.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 11 Sep 2025, 19:24,
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Your sig has three paedophiles in it.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Sep 2025, 5:41,
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Anything would be better than we have now...
I very much doubt that version of society would tolerate people who openly mock a man who has just been murdered for saying some words.
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 19:30, Reply)
So you think if people say awful things online,
they deserve to be shot?
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 21:03,
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I don't know.
Turning Point might make an AI version of him.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 12 Sep 2025, 10:47,
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The US government are properly armed
with enough nukes to eliminate life on earth several times over, more conventional explosives, guided missiles and the satellites and software to guide them wherever they want. And you think a civilian with an assault rifle can defend themselves against a tyranny armed like that? The argument made some sort of sense in the 18th C but not foe over 150 years.
(, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 19:48, Reply)
afghanistan/iraq insurgents didn't do too badly with rifle, rpgs and artillery shells
(, Fri 12 Sep 2025, 19:34, Reply)
The problem is
that the people who really want to own assault rifles are exactly the same people that you don’t want to have access to assault rifles.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 11 Sep 2025, 13:28,
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How many deaths would be worth it?
Go on, give us a ballpark figure.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 11 Sep 2025, 14:12,
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