bob {l Wrote}:
We don't have fun in the UK with guns much.to many arseholes think the people with the licenses were committing gun crime so they got the guns banned.Wonder why they don't ban cars etc. More people are killed with those every year...
It's quite a shame really, the problem is the screening process to make sure whoever is carrying is doing it for the right reasons. But if someone intends to do bad things with a gun, they're going to get one illegally anyways, so I dont see the point in restricting them for everyone.
When I'm in the U.S. I concealed carry a S&W 1911 3" and two extra mags almost every day, but its a lifestyle change. I have to transform myself into quite literally the biggest pussy known to mankind. I can't roll my eyes at someone, flip someone off, make a snide remark, or verbally defend the honor of my significant other. If some guy comes up to me and says my girlfriend is a whore and im a big pansy, I have to reply "Okay, im sorry" and walk away. Because if I respond, and that response leads to an argument, which leads to a fight... A fight which now by default has a gun in it, because if I start losing, I'll pull that gun in self defense and I will kill that man. I'll have to live with the fact that I killed that man for the rest of my life because I let my ego get the best of me.
However, I carry because if I find myself in a situation that I can't control, or witness someone in danger of their life because of another human being. I will pull that weapon, put two rounds in the target's vault, call the police, give a statement, and go home to sleep like a baby. I did everything I could to save that persons life, and in the end, they made the decision to kill themself.