Texas gun laws

That's awful mate, hope things are on the up now.

But yeah, I imagine when you've got access to something in the house like that it would be a relatively easy fix. It's quick and it's painless if you do it right. But it also removes the time needed to talk yourself out of it. I don't know what suicide rates are like in the States but i imagine they're astronomical and overwhelmingly gun related.

 

Cheers mate, yeah all good now new job, moved to Barnsley for the first time in my life (dad from Barnsley), things looking good!

 

In 2018 there were 6,507 total suicides in the UK. There were 24,432 suicides by firearm alone in the US

 

If you own a gun you need a good shoeing.

 

Jeez...

 

There are plenty of reasons why folk would own a gun for legitimate purposes, not every gun owner needs a good shoeing.

Owning a gun isn't inherently a bad thing, the problem is the ease of getting hold of a gun in certain US states.

 

And more bullets than people on earth.

 

You do realise that since handguns were banned in the 90s in most countries of the UK gun crime has risen, and most states / cities where gun crime in the US is worse is DemoncRat controlled. Taking guns off legally owned gun owners will not stop the criminals from committing crime, as has been proven in the UK

 

Cuts out the cost of going to Switzerland.

We need in this country the means by which to secure our own exit from this world, when we've had enough, without leaving a mess on the carpet.

 

We haven't had a massacre like Dunblane though since gun controls were tightened. Same in New Zealand.

 

360 million live in the US with many large areas of wilderness, 65 million in the UK no comparison really, plus you can use you gun for sport / vermin and self defence, here just sport and vermin control

 

I’m your Huckleberry

 

2010 was the last mass shooting over here, when a taxi driver went crazy with shotguns in Cumbria, fatally shooting 12 people I think it was, injuring many others. Most victims were called over to his car, then blasted in the face.

Dunblane was the last one prior to that one. So they are as rare as rocking horse s***.

I think there has to be a certain number of fatalities for it to be considered a mass shooting. Four or five I think.

 

Not if they were brandishing a gun at me or my family, absolutely not.

 

What if you missed? what if the gun jammed? what if the round ricocheted and hit a family member? what if they fired first as your were reaching for your gun? What if the bullet went through a window and hit your neighbours kid playing on the street? What if... What if...?

You just probably got your family killed, good job.

Maybe you should have just let them rob you.

 

That's why you look at per capita statistics. Gun deaths per 100,000 population:

USA - 12.21
UK - 0.20

60x worse.

 

Not quite. Gun crime in the UK reached a peak in 2004, then fell, before rising again. At current levels (2020), 9787 offences were recorded, compared to 24,084 in 2004.

Of those 12, 7-8 are suicide or non-intentional and 4 are murder.

 

In the years before the act was commenced, Home Office statistics show that homicides involving firearms were 75 in 1993, the same in 1994, and 81 in 1995. Aside from spikes around the turn of the century, the subsequent years have all seen markedly lower gun-deaths recorded.

The Gun Control Network, a campaigning body set up in the wake of Dunblane, records its own gun-death statistics based on media reports, which it says generally tally with official figures once they come out. For the past few years it has reported 20 deaths in 2014-15, 24 in 2015-16, 27 in 2016-17, and since 1 April this year, 15 deaths in England, Wales and Scotland.

 

How much does a gun cost? X 400 million, that's some wonga for a limited number of manufacturers; and quite a few back handers for politicians. No wonder they don't want to change things.

 

Don't forget the ammo, the scopes, the holsters, the cleaning gear... it probably directly maintains thousands of jobs. It probably indirectly maintains thousands more jobs by way of paramedics, ER doctors and nurses, physiotherapists, counsellors, you know, for the victims...