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[oliverkeers13]

[WolverineFan]

No no. It's not the GUNS that kill people. It's the BULLETS.

That reminds me of a Chris Rock routine I saw. He suggested making the bullets cost $500 each. Then you'd have people saying things like "I'd shoot you, but I can't afford it".

As was already said, a debate over firearms is just asking for trouble.

[Jotacon]

[European Chris]

GUNS!...Fuck Yeah

[Spankit]

Oh dear. Have we learned nothing, my good friends? Let's move away from this debate ASAP before I start getting a hankering for Taco Bell and cheesy bread.

[oliverkeers13]

There's nothing wrong with a healthy debate. Argument is the best way to learn and progress.

[Spankit]

[Mokey Fraggle]

May I just say -- at the risk of getting in trouble for being off-topic -- because I've been wanting to mention it for a while, that I totally dig Lord Wimsey?

[jojojojo]

For everyones information:

Gun crime is alot lower in Britain because no one is allowed to have a gun without special license. Farmers can have a shotguns, and gun club member can have guns, but thy're generally quite low spec. Revolvers and other small hand guns aren't generally common place. They are not readily available to buy, you have to prove your a responsible citizen with a true purpose for owning one. Our local police have even siezed BB guns from some people. BB guns seem to be a real problem with teenagers around here.

Same with knives, a few years ago, all knives (obviously not general kitchen knives) and lethal blades were siezed. Some people voluntarily handed their knives etc to the police to be destroyed.

I'm not saying that they don't exist in Britain, its just there not as common place as they are in America.

The only police I've seen carrying guns are military police, ones protecting the Queen and "Riot Police". (The ones who turn up at protests, and who barge their way into places.)

Worth bearing in mind, MC are a British company after all.

And back to the thread. [SPEC] Perhaps they wern't even the police, perhaps they were the 3P. The police station he visited wasn't one he recognised.

[oliverkeers13]

[European Chris]

[oliverkeers13]

[locqust]

I think this is def going way off topic now with regards to guns and knives. Lets just stick to the game.

[Spankit]

[Scott]

May I lend some american counter perspective to the subject? guns arent really all *that* common place in america, you know. a cop will generally always have a side-arm pistol - but anything other than that is really rare. growing up on a military base, myself, the only time i can specifically think of having seen any other guns was specifically when my neighbor, the military police officer, was being sent to saudi arabia and carried an M-16 fFrom house to car. More recently, i was hanging out at the docks and spotted a coast-guard ship with a fFew guys with rifles.

What I'm saying here is: a bunch of heavily armed officers with large weapons is not a common sight in any setting. Whatever fFrye was prepared fFor, it was not petty thieves. she was armed fFor serious combat.