OK, what the hell has happened to the Brits?

"Dave" wrote in message
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"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote in message
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Do you see the problem with abject pascifism? No, probably not. So go
ahead
and allow criminals to have their way with you and your family, weather
it's
a $20 stickup or a gang rape. And as they rape your daughter or beat you
with baseball bats for whatever little cash you may have, you can rest
easy
knowing that your pascifist ideals are intact.

Maybe its just that people behave differently here that the risk is so
small
that the chances of violent assault are so small that the solutions you
propose are out of proportion to the risk -the first rule of insurance.

Famous last words!!


Secondly if I was to be held up the aim is to not get in a fight but to
survive.

That's probably not YOUR aim, but in words of the old cliche, "It takes two
to tango".

Not about being a pascifist, its about being smart and knowing when
to fight and when not to fight.

You're confusing "when" with the ability TO fight.


I was held up at knive point in South Africa last year by two black
youths.
The main aim was to get the guy with the knive as far away from me as
possible. So I let him have the camera and threw 100 rand ( $10) on the
floor. He dropped the camera, which I picked up and then fled empty
handed.
No point having a fight.

You were lucky...that time. Many others are not so fortunate.


FWIW Brits have more chance of being robbed and murdered on vacation in
Florida than we do in our own country.

Care to support that claim? You know you can't. AAMOF, you're in more danger
in your own country than in our worst place (New York). (Other than when
criminals targeted tourists KNOWING that they, unlike the locals, were
DEFINITELY unarmed).

On your hypothesis we should all be
issued with guns on entry to the US to give us a fair chance.

Non-sequitur.


And also FWIW Europeans dont fear guns. As was pointed out earlier they
are
inanimate objects absolutely useless until a persons picks on up. The fear
is about who can and who has access to guns and their attitute to using
them.

Non-sequitur #2.

The gun is never the problem its the person.

As for the Americans war on terrorism, they were pretty absent when we
were
fighting the Irish terrorists in fact many of them were funding Irish
terrorist organisations. Not exactly a consistent policy.

Non-sequitur #3.

Damn...is your Public Indoctrination ...I mean Education, System as screwed
up as our?