chris wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
kontiki writes:

That's because you have been indoctrinated to fear firearms and
that no "good' person should ever need one and they are 'dangerous'.

Not so. The reality is that there is generally no indoctrination at all
concerning firearms in countries where they are not common. Indeed, the
greatest exposure to firearms for people in many countries is American
motion
pictures, which regularly feature gunplay (and hardly indoctrinate
against
it).

Most people in most countries know very little about firearms, apart
from the
fact that they are normally used for hunting or killing people. Those
who
aren't interested in hunting or killing people aren't interested in
firearms.
And while the notion of someone in the countryside having a firearm for
hunting isn't necessarily that repulsive, the notion of someone in the
city
carrying one (and the implication that it is intended to kill people, not
food) is naturally repulsive to most people, in the same way that
murder is
repulsive.


Yay!! Not only do we finally agree on something but you're actually
making a whole lot of sense

I have only seen a couple of .22s in real life and never fired anything.
There's just no need to have a firearm for the average person,
especially in town.

Yes, your ignorance was pretty obvious from your earlier posts.


And the idea that the population is comfortable with the idea almost
scares me more than the thought of the guns themselves!

That is fine, don't come here then.


I heard one commentator over here point out after the last US school
shooting recently that if guns were as readily available here to the
sort of people who shoot up schools, we'd have the same thing happen
here. It's only the fact that angry young men have substantially more
difficulty laying their hands on the firearms that prevents tragedies
like that from occurring here.

If they are really predisposed to commit such acts, they will find a way.

Matt