chomp my root

He'll be dining out on this for the rest of his life.

I see the mighty T are advertising at the Scotland game, if I hadn't already moved onto the red stuff I'd have been sold on having another can or two. Damn them and their clever marketing.

Sounds a bit like Islam to be fair.

The sad thing is you're not even trolling.

Imagine having the wit to remember something from a few hours previously, yup, I'm some machine.

While I accept that its the 64 thousand dollar question, have you got any idea how ridiculous the notion is. Without doing any research, the countries that tolerate the laissez faire approach you're talking about are America and sections of the third world. I don't know if it was on Clinton's or Bush's watch that the 10 year moratorium ceased but apart from it being an election year, it was an unpopular 'law', especially with those that didn't have assault rifles. I'm not sure why they felt the need for them, other than the boy next door had one but hey ho. I'm not unsympathetic to firearms, I've used them most my life, only ever used automatic weapons in the Military, never wanted one in my private life, there are much better alternatives for hunting and sports shooting. Handguns, I get too, maybe not the need to carry them day to day but I accept the cultural differences as well as the differences in crime (partially because every fecker has a gun so sort of self perpetuating). Serious question, do you as an individual think America is a better place because individuals can own (and hoard) automatic weapons and unlimited amounts of ammunition ?

Just saying.....

No argument here.

I'm sticking with killing the opposition and no moral highground, just cementing power because they feel they can. Its historically what has happened and I can't see this being any different, its not like there was a grudging respect for the Romanov's. Academic now anyway.

There was me just thinking 'new broom'. New guy knocks off any of the old lot that could rally an opposition 'shocka' stuff. Dressed up in a noble cause of course, but still an angry killing spree to cement their new power.

Mon the Thunderchild.

Its even harder to know who does and who doesn't, I'm guessing you wouldn't take any chances and just slot everyone, regardless of their dental work.

Trinny and Susannah would have a field day on the lad.

It might have been more effective if they'd removed the assault rifles still in circulation, all you had was a culture of those with them and those without, some of who did want them. That's why whenever there's even a whiff of another ban being put in place more go out and buy them to beat the anticipated 'dead'line. Things change anyway, there seems to have been an increase in the 'newsworthy' mass slayings, certainly more than there was leading up to the last ban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban I'm assuming this is what you're referring to.

Would make great TV right enough.

Fair one, we had to send the dross somewhere. You've had influxes since then though, enough to dilute that bad Brit blood, maybe its time to try something radical and take the assault rifles away.

Maybe King Donald should send a 'fact finding mission' to Canada then. Sounds like the US could learn something to their benefit.

I'm passingly familiar with it, as for the rest, its just your opinion versus mine. I draw different conclusions, that happens.

They don't need to be disarmed, the 'spirit' of the 2nd Amendment could be met and the automatic weapons could be banned. They could still 'bear arms' without the lethality of automatic weapons. I can't be arsed to check but I'm sure I read/heard a similar percentage of Canadians have firearms, just not in the same quantities or type of firearms, there's only a small fraction of fatalities though.

The whole thing is so exasperating that you want to greet. Or mock. Or both.

Is this real ? Sorry for questioning but I hadn't heard this, that's frightening on a number of different levels.

Aye, a lot seems to have been lost or twisted along the way. Like I say, I've heard the justification that they need to be able to fight against the State if the people feel they're being oppressed being used a fair bit. That this crap hasn't been called out as absolutely futile tells a story in itself, its quite despairing that culturally there is the 'want' to have automatic weapons that are only designed to kill people. I've shot over the years myself as well as doing the bang-sticks when I was in the Forces, I'm very comfortable with firearms but for the life of me, I really don't get this mass psychosis about being armed to the teeth.

A couple of wids there, any takers for this one ????