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Originally Posted by brando
No, you're not getting the point, for whatever reason. British society is based on guns remaining in the hands of Her Majesty's Armed Forces and, to a limited extent, HM Police. The majority of UK citizens are quite happy for this to be the case.
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guns are still in the hands of citizen who want to own them, not any kind of guns, only certain ones who for some ridiculous political standard are deemed as "less lethal" than others, this is what I think is the ridiculous point.
Why I can own a semiauto rimfire gun or a bolt action full bore rifle, or a shotgun, but not a semiauto full bore or a pistol? Hang on, you can actually own a pistol, but it needs to be a muzzle loader.. You really don't get it, politicians listen to the opinion of ignorants who think that guns mean violence and crime, who probably never handled one and want to judge upon it regardless. Truth is that the ridiculous gun ban has made no difference to crime rate, which didn't involve firearms before anyway, apart for the two or three crazies that went on a killing spree (and the last one in Cumbria, who did it as well, again
undisturbed for hours because the police officers that were following him as he was shooting were unarmed..).
The ridiculous gun ban in the UK is another political manoeuvre to make a certain part of the public opinion happy at a certain time and above all to limit the right to bear firearms, which is normal in
any other democracy..
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I don't have any problem discerning between my views on (not) distributing guns to the masses and playing historical war-games on a computer. There's no comparison.
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What's this silly idea of distributing guns to the masses? It's not like you could buy guns at ASDA before, so I can hardly think of masses of people running to the local gun shops and stack up on firearms and ammo (esp. considering the prices!). A firearm can be use for hunting, sport and collecting, I don't see what's wrong or dangerous in that. Needless to say you need a careful assessment of the person to determine whether he/she is eligible to own and use a functioning firearm, and THIS should be the responsibility of the Government and police forces.
As for discerning reality from fiction, I'm afraid it's you that don't get the point: how can you vouch for a war
game, turning the traumatic experience of millions of people into a recreational activity, being fascinated with war machines that made the difference between the life and death of millions, and then say "oh no, owning a rifle is bad!"? This double standard of "a Spitfire is better than an SMLE" hasn't still been clarified to me..
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Originally Posted by Hood
Or they can distinguish between reality and fiction.
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so if there was a game about rape, pedophilia and murder you would play with it cos you can discern fiction from reality?