Time to arm our guards

[Swoop]

(the UK being a pertinent example) the vast majority of hand guns simply get handed in and destroyed.

England is not a good example to use when thinking about "gun control".
Gun crime has risen dramatically since the "dis-arming of the population", but the criminals are happier.
GF was living in Sarf London and regularly went to sleep to the sound of gunfire.

The difference is that hand-guns are designed for one thing and one thing only. Killing people.

Buahahahahaha!!!

You guys are doing nothing for the nasty reputation of reckless gun owners. I thought we were all mass murdering wannabes hoping to plunge the country into anarchy.

Sorry!
Hey youse muthaf*ckers, put your apostrophe's in da rite places or we'll bust a cap in yo ass!
Any better?

[ManDownUnder]

Gun crime has risen dramatically since the "dis-arming of the population", but the criminals are happier.

Let me guess - they broke the rules and didn't hand theirs in too? ... bastards...

Hey youse muthaf*ckers, put your apostrophe's in da rite places or we'll bust a cap in yo ass!

Hitch - is that you???

[Delerium]

I was going to rob a bank tomorrow with my hand gun, but no wait, I cant do that anymore, they want me to hand it in for destruction, thats after I put it on the national register, must be law abiding right up until the point the bank gets robbed FFS.

[Toaster]

I like the Saudi approach.

[Jiminy]

Time to call in OCP...

[CDFloss]

dude that sounds great but N.Z isn't as dangerous as South Africa and doesn't require that sort or protection yet!

True (thank goodness), and I'd hate to see it heading that way, but if the numpties in the beehive keep chasing bullshit policies, and rubishing the oposition instead of actually facing the REAL problems and giving those on the front lines (or behind the sentencing) real power, then it might come to this extreme one day.

But hey, at least NZ will still have it's GE-free, green, anti-smacking, super-PC, nanny-state image in tact!

[Mikkel]

Are you referring to the Asian vigilante crime fighting group?

Not in particular - one nice thing about triads and their ilk is that they are not officially condone organisations tasked with keeping order.

I used to fill up the ATMs, and trust me, you DON'T want the guys who do that to have guns. They are slightly smarter than trained monkeys. Slightly.

So by implication you used to be slightly smarter than a trained monkey. What happened?

[p/t] - couldn't help it.

But if you buy a hand-gun, it's because you forsee the time when you might have to use it to kill someone.

Or you just want something which is handy and can be used to make holes in walls - for putting up pictures, satellite dishes, etc.

Time to call in OCP...

Fuck yes!

Classic.

[imdying]

Hmmm, not sure that a 'Couldn't be a cop' is the best person to arm with a weapon of any sort.

[scumdog]

England is not a good example to use when thinking about "gun control".
Gun crime has risen dramatically since the "dis-arming of the population", but the criminals are happier.
GF was living in Sarf London and regularly went to sleep to the sound of gunfire.

True that - just Google up the stats, more killed with pistols (per capita) than in New Zealand by a considerable margin - and most of out 'handguns' are only that because of their dimensions (Cut down rifles etc)

And while handguns are totally banned ( even Olympic shooter have to practice on th econtinent) pistols flood in viw European smugglers.

[Mr Merde]

....
And while handguns are totally banned ( even Olympic shooter have to practice on th econtinent) pistols flood in viw European smugglers.

I know this for a fact.

Bought a black powder revolver in France (no licence needed) threw it into the boot of the car and travelled back to the UK.

No problem.

Result one more pistol in the illegal supply of handguns in the UK.

I have since brought this to NZ, registered it and sold it.

[slofox]

The police, as usual were busy at a check-point...

While waiting in line at a checkpoint, I watched a copper wandering down the line of cones, moving them one by one, about 10cm to the right.....VERY important job that - no wonder they are so busy at the checkpoints.....

[scumdog]

While waiting in line at a checkpoint, I watched a copper wandering down the line of cones, moving them one by one, about 10cm to the right.....VERY important job that - no wonder they are so busy at the checkpoints.....

Nice to see you getting top value for your tax-dollars...

[alanzs]

I thought this post was entitled "Time to guard our arms."
Sorry...
Carry on....

[Swoop]

Hitch - is that you???

I'm standing in for him.
There is a big debate about what to pack for the American trip. Whether or not, to take the US English dictionary, or ours.

[ManDownUnder]

I'm standing in for him.
There is a big debate about what to pack for the American trip. Whether or not, to take the US English dictionary, or ours.

American. Their UK dictionaries got heaved overboard in Boston along with about 20 tonnes of tea a few years back.

It doesn't affect their use of apostrophies - so there's still considerable fun to be had.