feejer222
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As I am sure you are all aware we don't have guns for public use here in the UK. After the Dunblane massacre about 10 years ago all legally owned hand guns were called in and crushed.
We are still allowed target rifles and shot guns, but under very strict rules and regulations. Recently I was speaking to my father-in-law who is a keen target shooter and owns a gun. (No idea what sort, specialist target type). He was relating a tale he had heard recently at his club.
A guy came home drunk and could not get his key to work in the door, he hammered on the door then eventually started kicking the door as his wife would not open it. Turned out that he was at the wrong house and was kicking in the door of an elderly neighbour who for his own safety had an air rifle in the house. The old guy stood on the stairs quaking, not knowing what was coming through his front door and fired into the drunks eye when he eventually got in. The drunk was permenantly blinded and the old guy served a term for grevious bodily harm.
Hard to say what is right or wrong here, except that if the old guy had a handgun the drunk would be dead and the old guy would spend the rest of his life in a cell.
I am not pro or against guns, I would probably own one for family protection if they were legal here. It fascinates me how different you guys sound when talking about owning and carrying weapons, to how we feel about them when only real bad guys have them here.
I ask again; if you guys were not allowed your guns, how would you feel? Vulnerable? No different? Safe in the knowledge that no-one else has a gun either? Totally lost without it?
We are still allowed target rifles and shot guns, but under very strict rules and regulations. Recently I was speaking to my father-in-law who is a keen target shooter and owns a gun. (No idea what sort, specialist target type). He was relating a tale he had heard recently at his club.
A guy came home drunk and could not get his key to work in the door, he hammered on the door then eventually started kicking the door as his wife would not open it. Turned out that he was at the wrong house and was kicking in the door of an elderly neighbour who for his own safety had an air rifle in the house. The old guy stood on the stairs quaking, not knowing what was coming through his front door and fired into the drunks eye when he eventually got in. The drunk was permenantly blinded and the old guy served a term for grevious bodily harm.
Hard to say what is right or wrong here, except that if the old guy had a handgun the drunk would be dead and the old guy would spend the rest of his life in a cell.
I am not pro or against guns, I would probably own one for family protection if they were legal here. It fascinates me how different you guys sound when talking about owning and carrying weapons, to how we feel about them when only real bad guys have them here.
I ask again; if you guys were not allowed your guns, how would you feel? Vulnerable? No different? Safe in the knowledge that no-one else has a gun either? Totally lost without it?
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