What is wrong with 'SOME' Americans!!
I dont wish to be controversial but America has these very liberal gun laws but it is plain to the rest of the world that some of them are just too stupid to be allowed to own anything sharper than a blunt pencil.
Why would an 8 year old be allowed to even look at a weapon like this let alone fire one.
I am not having a go at all of America I just feel that in the interest of public safety these laws need amending, even if it is just 1 in 1000 who allow idiocy like this to happen, it would still save hundreds of lives a year.
(rant over)
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 18:18,
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What about
'SOME' Britons?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/toddler-shot-in-head-by-sister-with-an-air-gun-908718.html
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mookay immune to icons since, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 18:55,
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We could scrap nationality altogether
and bring it down to The Public.
The Public being everyone who isn't me.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:08,
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I dont think it is a general public issue
There are lots of countries in the world with liberal gun laws, Switzerland and Canada come to mind. You rarely end up reading about gun incidents in these countries (although I am sure they happen occasionally). The frequency and the circumstances which which they occur in the US surely points to a change in some of the gun ownership laws being necessary there. It wouldnt be too hard to write in to law that a person under the age of say 16 shouldnt be able to fire an automatic weapon? I know it is common sense to most people but if an incident like this can happen (and at a gun fair as well) then surely this needs to be put in to legislation to stop these few utter morons from putting the lives of innocents at risk.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:33,
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Although I disagree with guns being in the house with kids about
I think there is quite a dramatic difference between a kid getting its hands on a gun(that shouldnt have been left about)and causing a tragic accident and one being given a fully automatic weapon by a supposedly responsible adult which is plainly going to be far to powerful for an 8 year old to control.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:14,
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What's ironic is that this occurred in the area of the country with the highest average IQ
and the fewest hillbillies.
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Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:26,
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