crozby

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  1. Kennedy I've taken the time to look at the UK government reports and it seems to me the following conclusions can be drawn from them: 1. Gun crime involving handguns is down. 2. Gun crime involving replicas and airguns is up. Perhaps the recent introduction of a mandatory 5 year jail sentence for being in posession of a handgun is having an effect. If so, perhaps the solution is to extend the 5 year jail term to include replicas and to further restrict the use of air guns. I wouldn't advocate gun control like this in the USA, but what do you think about applying it to the UK?
  2. I would suggest those people switch to a variety of weed that doesn't make them so paranoid.
  3. I would be really surprised if you found anyone posting here thinks that. I posted the article because it purported to be the fist 'official' report on casualty figures. It was said to have come from the interim Iraqi government so one would hope it was vaguely realistic.
  4. That was a quality post. I can't wait to see the pro-gun response.
  5. So much for the idea that insurgents are killing most of the Iraqis... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4217413.stm)
  6. I'm curious John, how did you stumble accross this statistic buried in an English newspaper? You seem to be suggesting you weren't directed to it by some other source. Is that the case? Did you really find it yourself?
  7. Your reading comprehension is lacking. The source of my story was the United Nations. The NRA had nothing to do with it. LOL... MY reading comprehension??? Re-read my post. I didn't state the NRA did it, only that they, or more specifically you as an NRA member, drew our attention to it.
  8. It draws criticism simply because locking people up without a trial appears to go against the ideals that the USA holds so highly. It's not just France that is also doing this, in the UK there are detainees in Belmarsh prison that are being held without charge. (Although I think they are free to go if they leave the UK. (But that may be bollocks)) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3714864.stm
  9. Are you suggesting that the NRA only draws attention to statistics that back their cause? That's outrageous!!!
  10. Go google Peter Huessy. Go read some of the other stuff he has written. Just because this blatantly pro-republican analysis of the situation matches your own point of view doesn't make it fact by any stretch of the imagination.
  11. You cannot compare Germany or Japan to Iraq. For starters, both Germany & Japan had surrendered following years of conflict, Iraq has not. I agree with Rhino, we cannot inflict democracy on nations. They have to want it and to invest time and effort in making it happen.
  12. To give this a bit of context, the Telegraph, or Torygraph as it gets called here is a newspaper that firmly supports the Conservative Party and regularly prints misleading and/or exaggerated pieces attacking Tony Blair and Labour Party policy. I'm sure you have papers affiliated with the Democrats that you know do just the same thing to Bush and co. If you want less partisan, more objective news from a UK perspective take a look at the Times, the Financial Times and the Independent. What makes me disbelieve the statistics is that I live in one of the shittier areas of London, a place which you would expect to have above the average crime, and the worst thing that has happened to me or my wife over the last five is she had a couple of CDs nicked from our car. I have no idea why you are suggesting the cause of crime in the UK is lack of guns. There is no credible evidence for that whatsoever.
  13. I don't know. I'm getting misquoted all over the place. Dorbie said "it's none of the company's damned business" and i responded with "It is if:" followed by my list, and everyone seems to have blind-spotted the "if". I'd guess not though. Where I work it seems to be drinkers, then parents, then lazy arses like myself that take the most time off. See I do blame the tobacco companies. They wouldn't spend over 10 billion dollars per year in the USA alone if it didn't have any effect on getting people to smoke. And now that the markets are shrinking in the developed world they are moving operations to the developing world where the markets are less regulated and people are less aware of the dangers.
  14. Reports here say that 3,000 Palestinian police have been on duty patrolling in the Gaza strip. Where the hell have they been up until now???
  15. Of course it is. The lack of a good WMD find has seriously dented Blairs credibility at home and he understands that, which is why the UK government is expending so much energy lately on stressing it would not support military intervention in Iran.
  16. They are usually nearer 10 minutes when you add the to'ing and fro'ing to the time it takes to smoke the cigarette. Smokers at our place put in about an hour less per day, or over half a day less per week. Years ago I heard that some companies in Germany used to pay their smokers less than their non-smokers to compensate for this. I expect that's been banned by the EU now though.
  17. Their remit was to spread communism throughout the world. The US took them pretty seriously - it's what the arms race was all about. Do you think Iran would nuke Israel if the result would be Iran getting nuked? umm... good point. Hey what's your take on what is happening since the new Palestinian leader took over? It looks quite positive from here.
  18. Yeah I probably would. Look if the European skydivers at Empuria Brava did treat whoeveritwas badly because he is an American then shame on them. My friends and I have always been treated exceptionally well whenever we've come to the USA and I would expect European skydivers to behave the same way. I was only raising the possibitly that maybe, possibly, he went there expecting some degree of hostility and was misinterpreting introvertedness for something else. but thats only a maybe, I'm not saying that's what definitely happened or anything like that.
  19. It isn't. I didn't say it was. Ditto. Ditto. True. Kids choose to do a whole load of things that are stupid. Most of those things don't involve legal addictive substances. I was merely pointing out that a lot of smokers need help quitting because it is very difficult. If it wasn't there would be far fewer smokers IMO.
  20. this is a UK/US translation issue. Here gregarious = friendly. Are you going to show me where my post is anti-American or not?
  21. Juanesky please read this properly before attacking me again. The definition of gregarious in the context of my statement is: seeking and enjoying the company of others. The British are known for their reserve. Compared to the Brits the Americans are more gregarious. I don't mean every single one of them - that would be silly - but it is a fair characterisation. Now, please tell me what bit of my post is anti-American, and what I have said that upsets you so much that you feel the need to jump in and attack me for no apparent reason.
  22. Are you being deliberately obtuse? The point is that one can feel snubbed without anyone intentionally causing it. Anti Bush: Yes. Anti-American: No. There is a difference isn't there? I said: It could have been anything. He and you choose to interpret it as anti-American.
  23. This is a really interesting question so why not try dealing with it rather than turning this into yet another thread about the pros & cons of the Iraq2.
  24. To state that is to discount the addictive properties of nicotine. If cigarettes weren't addictive, how many people do you think would put up with the bad breath, the coughing up shit, the smelling terrible, the having to go outside and stand in the cold and rain for a smoke, the high risk of hear disease and cancer, the increased bronchial illnesses and the spiralling cost?
  25. A straight answer: No. Preemptive strikes are wrong no matter who does them. The right thing to do is negotiate, garner international support and apply sanctions. If all that fails, get UN approval for military action, put together a multinational force and only then use force.