Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
(Post 324217)
I'm sorry if it all came out as patronising, it's a cultural thing I'm afraid, nothing personal, this is the way we talk in Italy and we don't mean to be patronising, but it comes out differently and the forum medium doesn't help either. You can't stop it mainly cos it's embarrassingly easy to smuggle stuff through, not in airports, but everywhere else.
ok, so you obviously find firearms fascinating but don't want the responsibility of having one in your household. Is that correct?
It's ok, I still enjoy using all my firearms when I'm back in Italy, it's not big deal to me, but I take several British friends to the shooting range, and they all were impressed by the culture and above all how there's pretty much no difference between a bolt action and semiauto rifle. The Enfield in particular, because of its spring loaded bolt action, is renown for its so called "mad minute", in which experienced shooters can deliver an impressive 30 rounds per minute hitting a target at 200 yards (the record, back in 1914, is of 38). Then again, a rimfire .22cal version of the ColtM4 or Car15 is available for sale, and that is too incredibly lethal.
for the semiauto see above, for the full auto I have a mixed feeling. The destructive potential of an automatic machine gun is big, there could be stricter regulations like you're not authorised to leave the shooting range with it (many shooting ranges offer the possibility to keep your firearms safely stored in their premises). Mind you, regulations on transportation are really strict: whenever you're travelling, the gun can't be in the cabin with you, it needs to be in the boot with its bolt disassembled. Ammunition need to be with you at all time, not with the gun, pistols need to be disassembled on their main components etc.. again, this is the regulation in Europe.
I meant they didn't go for further restrictions on firearms after the Cumbria shooting, which surprised me a bit.
yeah, it's the double standard attitude that I don't get. Again, alcohol causes, directly or indirectly, loads of victims every year, but there's no public condemnation of it. Probably because it's too much of a business, like cars.. there's no real interest for the Government for your health, they just need to give the politically correct buff here and there, attacking easy minorities like gun collectors, whilst spending £1billion for a war that makes no sense in Afghanistan.. go figure!
yeah, that was a dangerous reaction but fortunately for you it worked :-) if this kind of crime is common in your area, I would really recommend to follow a Krav Maga course, it was developed by the Mossad and it's a very effective, no-nonsense defence technique.
Exactly, there's no right or wrong in things, it's the use that we make of them that is either right or wrong (which then again is subjective). As you said, there's nothing wrong with guns, what's wrong is the regulations and controls on the licensing. So the Government should fix that instead of prohibit them altogether.
I'll tell you why, because the Spitfire became a symbol of propaganda, the Enfield instead, which served your countries for 2 world wars, was just a rifle.. there's never been glamour about firearms, but that's what won the war, a Spitfire was armed with machine guns and cannons, not good intentions. That's the "society hypocrisy" that I'm talking about.
exactly, it doesn't affect you, but you should express sympathy to other citizens like you who are deprived of a right, and I mean this in a broad sense, not just related to firearms.
Of course we can move on, I'm sorry again if I came out very blunt in some bits, but my point is that as much as I respect other people's opinion, I want to understand where they come from, not just take them for granted and get them shoved down my throat, like the government does here.
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