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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 7:07:42 AM
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As a Brit, while I think American gun laws are about the stupidest thing in human creation, I really like them. You guys seem to be enjoying your freedoms and it makes great TV.
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Mal_Fet
06/30/18 7:13:55 AM
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How long until you guys ban knives
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Itachi157
06/30/18 7:14:26 AM
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Oatcakes
06/30/18 7:15:20 AM
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Why do American news networks report on things like movie trailers?
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whitelytning
06/30/18 7:16:32 AM
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ArchiePeck
06/30/18 7:18:37 AM
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As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...
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1NfamousACE_2
06/30/18 7:20:06 AM
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Oatcakes posted...
Why do American news networks report on things like movie trailers?


Entertainment
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pres_madagascar
06/30/18 7:20:20 AM
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Oatcakes posted...
Why do American news networks report on things like movie trailers?

Pop culture is everything in America now.
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Irony
06/30/18 7:35:11 AM
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Itachi157 posted...
Mr Hangman posted...
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Mal_Fet
06/30/18 7:37:20 AM
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ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

How many mass shootings did you have before 1996
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RoboLaserGandhi
06/30/18 7:38:50 AM
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Mr Hangman posted...
Oi mate, where's your game forum loicense

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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 7:46:39 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...
How long until you guys ban knives


Knives are a far more intimate way of killing strangers. You really have to make eye contact and stuff. You really have to mean it. I love the way you guys can just destroy tons of people in one go with your automatic weapons and I can watch it on the TV. And yeah you do rank much higher for all forms of killing and violence, we just can't compete with your collective psychopathy. The whole world is in awe of your murder rates and your prison population.

God Bless You Guys. xxx
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deupd_u
06/30/18 7:48:33 AM
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ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.
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Dark_Spiret
06/30/18 7:51:10 AM
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glad youre enjoying it, mate. im enjoying watching you slowly slide into an authoritarian shithole.
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Sativa_Rose
06/30/18 7:51:51 AM
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Just hurry up and brexit already so the remoaners will finally shut up
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 7:56:00 AM
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Dark_Spiret posted...
glad youre enjoying it, mate. im enjoying watching you slowly slide into an authoritarian shithole.


We can only dream of having your incarceration rates. Unparalleled by any country in any civilisation ever. So in awe. You guys rock. USA USA
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specialkid8
06/30/18 7:56:10 AM
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Mr Hangman posted...
Oi mate, where's your game forum loicense


Oh no, It's the yard!
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DK9292
06/30/18 7:57:28 AM
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As a Brit, I fucking HATE the word "Brit".
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Howl
06/30/18 7:59:36 AM
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The Ayatollah C posted...
Dark_Spiret posted...
glad youre enjoying it, mate. im enjoying watching you slowly slide into an authoritarian shithole.


We can only dream of having your incarceration rates. Unparalleled by any country in any civilisation ever. So in awe. You guys rock. USA USA


It's ok. Soon it will be illegal for him to post on this website because it doesn't comply fully with laws like not allowing people to post links to news stories. His terrible opinions will never be seen again here soon enough.
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EverDownward
06/30/18 8:01:32 AM
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How's 1984 going over in Britland?
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RoboLaserGandhi
06/30/18 8:09:55 AM
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The Ayatollah C posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
How long until you guys ban knives


Knives are a far more intimate way of killing strangers. You really have to make eye contact and stuff. You really have to mean it. I love the way you guys can just destroy tons of people in one go with your automatic weapons and I can watch it on the TV. And yeah you do rank much higher for all forms of killing and violence, we just can't compete with your collective psychopathy. The whole world is in awe of your murder rates and your prison population.

God Bless You Guys. xxx

Well first things first, if you're gonna kill someone you're gonna kill someone. "Intimacy" of the kill seems like it wouldn't be a factor at all. It may make them regret the kill more afterward and that's really it.

Second, no, we don't have automatic weapons (for the most part; you can't just go to any gun shop and get an LMG like this is GTA, you need a background check, extensive paperwork, and a few thousand dollarsthings impulsive criminals don't bother with).
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RoboLaserGandhi
06/30/18 8:12:43 AM
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deupd_u posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.

Hit the nail on the head. It's seriously a drop in the bucket. The sensationalization only exists for political fear-mongering.
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DK9292
06/30/18 8:14:49 AM
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...
deupd_u posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.

Hit the nail on the head. It's seriously a drop in the bucket. The sensationalization only exists for political fear-mongering.

Even if it was one shooting every ten years, that's still one too many.

Way to trivialise the deaths of everyone in those shootings for your own political agenda.
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RoboLaserGandhi
06/30/18 8:16:57 AM
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DK9292 posted...
RoboLaserGandhi posted...
deupd_u posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.

Hit the nail on the head. It's seriously a drop in the bucket. The sensationalization only exists for political fear-mongering.

Even if it was one shooting every ten years, that's still one too many.

Way to trivialise the deaths of everyone in those shootings for your own political agenda.

How about we don't enact sweeping laws affecting millions of lives for unfortunate incidents? Shit happens, and you can't always bubble-wrap everything. With the amount of people in this country, if you think of something, it will happen.
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DK9292
06/30/18 8:21:47 AM
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...
DK9292 posted...
RoboLaserGandhi posted...
deupd_u posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.

Hit the nail on the head. It's seriously a drop in the bucket. The sensationalization only exists for political fear-mongering.

Even if it was one shooting every ten years, that's still one too many.

Way to trivialise the deaths of everyone in those shootings for your own political agenda.

How about we don't enact sweeping laws affecting millions of lives for unfortunate incidents? Shit happens, and you can't always bubble-wrap everything. With the amount of people in this country, if you think of something, it will happen.

So to you were the Columbine killings just something that happened to someone else?
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RoboLaserGandhi
06/30/18 8:24:59 AM
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DK9292 posted...
RoboLaserGandhi posted...
DK9292 posted...
RoboLaserGandhi posted...
deupd_u posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

"Mass shootings" are statistically negligible; they're just sensational. It's like how we have a huge thing about children dying from being left in hot cars: the number of incidents was something like ~40 per year. People get emotional because "won't somebody please think of the children?!" But it's really a non-issue due to its infrequency.

Hit the nail on the head. It's seriously a drop in the bucket. The sensationalization only exists for political fear-mongering.

Even if it was one shooting every ten years, that's still one too many.

Way to trivialise the deaths of everyone in those shootings for your own political agenda.

How about we don't enact sweeping laws affecting millions of lives for unfortunate incidents? Shit happens, and you can't always bubble-wrap everything. With the amount of people in this country, if you think of something, it will happen.

So to you were the Columbine killings just something that happened to someone else?

First of all, you're trying to engage me emotionally when we're talking about laws that affect people outside of that narrow emotional scope.
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 8:28:27 AM
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Nah. You guys have shitloads more murders than us and it's great TV.
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deupd_u
06/30/18 8:29:16 AM
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DK9292 posted...
Even if it was one shooting every ten years, that's still one too many.

Way to trivialise the deaths of everyone in those shootings for your own political agenda.

See, this is where the sensationalism is getting to you. "Every death is a tragedy," yeah, yeah. People die, and they do it every day. It's just part of living. Let's look at the numbers.

According to WaPo, 1,102 people were killed in "mass shootings" combined over the last 52 years.

According to the FBI, 1,604 people were killed by knives and cutting instruments...in 2016

5,051 people...died from choking in 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/mass-shootings-in-america/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b2976fb96e13
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/19/knives-gun-control-fbi-statistics/
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Mal_Fet
06/30/18 8:29:31 AM
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...
Mr Hangman posted...
Oi mate, where's your game forum loicense

Halt, bruv! Lemme see ya loicense-askin' loicense!

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UnfairRepresent
06/30/18 8:29:48 AM
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they're more bothered by the constant mass shootings
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 8:31:36 AM
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The mass shootings are cool, but the fact that your murder rate is four times ours per capita is, well frankly we should be ashamed
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UnfairRepresent
06/30/18 8:42:48 AM
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The Ayatollah C posted...
The mass shootings are cool, bu

da fuck
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 9:07:59 AM
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Box office dude
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--Zero-
06/30/18 9:14:34 AM
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I agree with TC. The obsession with guns in this country is sickening.
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AlephZero
06/30/18 9:16:16 AM
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only cops should have guns
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0TiamaT0
06/30/18 9:59:47 AM
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People seem to always ignore a huge difference between America and The UK...

The UK doesnt share a near-open border with a third-world country run by drug cartels.

But that gets pushed to the side, because people cant possibly have anything bad to about brown people.
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--Zero-
06/30/18 10:02:15 AM
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Isn't the only murder committed in the UK now caused by refugees? I could be thinking of another country.
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UnfairRepresent
06/30/18 10:03:46 AM
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--Zero- posted...
Isn't the only murder committed in the UK now caused by refugees? I could be thinking of another country.

no nation on Earth ONLY has refugee murders
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darkjedilink
06/30/18 10:04:59 AM
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ArchiePeck posted...
As a Brit, I see how we implemented major gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 - twenty two years ago - and NEVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

But gun control doesn't work...

Nah, you just have knife attacks that make total mass shooting body counts in America look tame.
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 10:17:23 AM
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Yeah but no.

US has 4 times more murders per population than the UK. I don't know why you don't applaud this. It's one of the things that America is genuinely great at.
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 10:22:00 AM
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Oh wait a minute... Do you guys believe the shit Trump tweets? I thought you all knew he was a fucking stupid fat mess who could only brainwash total fuckwits.
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A_Good_Boy
06/30/18 10:23:35 AM
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The Ayatollah C posted...
Oh wait a minute... Do you guys believe the shit Trump tweets? I thought you all knew he was a fucking stupid fat mess who could only brainwash total fuckwits.

They know, he's even admitted to it. They just don't care because they're total fuckwits.
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darkjedilink
06/30/18 10:25:24 AM
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The Ayatollah C posted...
Yeah but no.

US has 4 times more murders per population than the UK. I don't know why you don't applaud this. It's one of the things that America is genuinely great at.

You know that stat is misleading, right? A lot of what we describe as 'justifiable homicide' you call 'murder.' That stat counts self-defense as murder.
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josifrees
06/30/18 10:27:04 AM
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Ya better watch out. Americans dont hestitate to put bullets into other Americanswhat you think they gonna do to you? BLAT BLAT BLAT
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JE19426
06/30/18 10:32:49 AM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
Just hurry up and brexit already so the remoaners will finally shut up


They won't shut up after Brexit happens. They'll switch to campaigning to join the EU. Just like how Eurosceptics switched from campaigning to stay out of the EU, to leaving the EU after the UK joined the EU.
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The Ayatollah C
06/30/18 10:33:16 AM
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darkjedilink posted...
The Ayatollah C posted...
Yeah but no.

US has 4 times more murders per population than the UK. I don't know why you don't applaud this. It's one of the things that America is genuinely great at.

You know that stat is misleading, right? A lot of what we describe as 'justifiable homicide' you call 'murder.' That stat counts self-defense as murder.


No. What you call justifiable homicide we call manslaughter. You guys are 4 times better. We are way behind... but we're in training and we're doing our best.
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DemonBuffet
06/30/18 10:35:29 AM
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