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Hi tamwam welcome to the boards and happy posting xx
beat ya to it, Ms K :D
hides in case she has a gun
@sceptical guy wrote:
beat ya to it, Ms K :D
hides in case she has a gun
I dont need a gun…I prefer bear knuckle boxing (I don’t know if that is the correct bear for some reason I cannot get it right)
Doesn’t matter who welcomes who first, last or in the middle…as long as someone does it, its nice
bare-knuckle boxing??? Put your dooks up, you’ve met your match *sways form side to side looking absolutely not the sort of person anyone would fight with.
@kent f OBE wrote:
Doesn’t matter who welcomes who first, last or in the middle…as long as someone does it, its nice
yes, mum
OK…OK!!
Take the mickey…………it’s a good job im not sensitiveAlabama ‘drifter’ kills two at Louisiana cinema on Friday:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0724/716851-louisiana-gun-attack/
President Obama has said a “distressing” lack of progress on gun control legislation has been the greatest source of frustration during his time in office.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said the issue he felt “most frustrated and most stymied” by was legislators’ inability to push through limitations on access to arms, despite repeated massacres during his tenure.
Under the US Constitution, every US citizen is entitled “to keep and bear arms”.
Mr Obama said his country was “the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws”.
He contrasted the numbers killed in terrorist attacks since the attacks on 11 September 2001 to gun violence.
He said: “If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100.
“If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands,” he added.
“And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.
“But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months [of his presidency].”
@Mr Harp wrote:
The myths and misconceptions regarding mental illness and violence are quite depressing. In this case ‘gun crime’ in the USA. Personally I find it quite shocking that in the age of google and instant information people are still so ignorant regarding this issue.
One in four will experience mental health problems in any given year. The USA is comparable to the UK and slightly higher % wise. The majority of extreme violent crime and homicides, particularly ‘gun crime’ in the USA, are committed by people who do not have serious mental health problems. In fact extreme violent crime committed by people with serious mental health issues/illness is rare both in the UK and in the USA.
I suspect media witch hunts are partly responsible but mostly pig ignorance.
Theres too many people with underlined mental illness and then theres some with bad blood in them.
^^^^^What a ridicules’ statement. I my self suffer mental illness, knowing one of the biggest factors is the fear of my loved ones mortality. I can not be sure but I suspect being human, that most people with a mental illness display this trait. I do know that the fear in me made me seek help certainly never thought about going and finding a weapon to kill anyone. There are very few thomos hameltons in this world of mental illness.
When lucy speaks of bad blood, I refuse to believe she is talking about ignorant travellers. Who she has posted about many times in anger, having had to deal with travellers in her job.Sh e has constantly tried to gouda me in to a confrintatition over this issue.
America unfortunately has a gun culture. Thankfully we don’t.I can understand why people would want to arm themselves in that situation.
I think if you disarmed people in the usa,things would go underground and some people would take advantage of this.I agree completely with Moon.
First, mental illness is a common problem in the Western world, and it freaks people out because most people don’t know how to deal with it. A few mentally ill people use a gun on people horrifically, as at Dunblane. If they didn’t have a gun, they would use something else. But most people with mental problems – and that includes a lot of the people who are sectioned – wouldn’t think of using a gun.
The gun laws in the usa are crazy, and I can’t imagine anyone supporting them in this country (Festus is American). Gun laws need to be very tight wherever they are
But you can’t ban guns. They go underground, and apparently there’s a lot of them around in this country.. Look at Manchester, if nowhere else.
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