Ian84

Your right. The only way to know for sure is to try it out. That means in the States making guns illegal to see what happens. As you point out our cultures are vastly different and so the results of an action taken in one place should not nessecarily predict the outcome of the same action elsewhere.

Don't worry about it. I once made the mistake of trying to exit before the jump run while the props were still at full power. My jumpmaster was pointing out the door and shouting something I couldnt hear........i assumed he was telling me to go and I stuck my legs out the door to get into the position we use(which is sit facing forward for students). When that wind hit I could have swore I was being sucked out the door, I couldnt move and my jumpmaster and another instructor pulled me back in. All this to the horrified looks of some tandems doing their first jump!! Eventually I got around to doing the jump and it went fine, but for a few jumps after I was fairly worried/embarrassed about what had happened. Anyway when I landed I asked my instructor what he had been saying....he said he was pointing at the dropzone and saying "WE'RE MILES AWAY!!!!".......everyone, including myself laughed it off but it that didnt stop me thinking about it for a while afterwards. Youll be fine. Good luck with the next one.

Your murder rates were low before handguns were banned. Since the ban, the murder rate has gone up. So it seems to me that things were working better before the ban. Gun control laws don't work! I've tried to find some info about this on the net but am having no luck. I don't recall a time when handguns were legal in Ireland, maybe cause im young but if you have details please let me know where I can find them. As for gun crime going up, I would say that it is due to a general breakdown in social behavior. If handguns were still legal there would be an awful lot more deaths, accidental and spur of the moment type killings. That number would be added to the shootings in robberies, assassinations etc.....

HAHA......thats really cool. Sorry they didn't appreciate your input though

Guinness.......but only a pint, its not the same out of a bottle. Also corona with lime. la cerveca mas fina! Carlsberg i pretty good too.

Cool site dude.........lookin at the pictures really makes me wish i was at home.......and in the air

Hmmm......those are some interesting statistics. If memory serves however i believe the primary reason for the ban was the Dunblane massacre in Scotland. Some dude with a bunch of legal handguns walked into a primary school and killed a whole bunch of kids. (maybe thats not completely correct, i was only 11. and yes I watched the news when I was eleven) Its just pretty hard for me to take in since back home not even the Gardai(police) carry guns. Maybe it is just the video games.......but no guns has been working pretty well for us.........but then your not us so its all very confusing

QuoteJet - Are you gonna be my girl?Quote Quality. I got some T Rex - Children of the Revolution goin right now. "you wont fool the children of the revolution!!"

Congrats Lummy......im starting on monday too!!! (also unemployed since august)

Atta boy Billy G. Just what I was thinking.

Happy Birthday dude!!!!!!!!

So now all you have to do is work on the drinking age People say that they need a gun and they have the right to one and all the baddies got 'em. I say if you made having a handgun illegal and made possession incur severe penalties, a lot less criminals would be "packing".

Maybe in future he should be a little more certain as to the threat posed by people he plans to "defend against". As for "submitting to the objections of a few"........perhaps it should be phrased, "listening to the valid argument of enlightened, influential people", who at the moment are in a pretty good position to say "I told ya so"

So because its in the constitution it must be right?? Why not have a referendum.........can that be done in the states?

Damn it im on 322.9

Whoa! Im getting off fairly lightly. PAI(parachute association of ireland) is only 20 euro.

"The Sex Machine"

The feeling is mutual

HAHA....my ma's gonna love that one

I voted Lillian.......after my mam, and my brothers hamster.

So your gonna give them 1500 quid and they'll let you run 26 miles........thats very good of them You could do a sponsored skydive or raffle a case of beer. A friend of mine who went to antarctica raised a couple of hundred that way....and guess who won the beer Good luck with it.

Thats a great tune......

I think i woke up on the wrong side of the bed cause i had an urge to do some complaining.....i dont know how much sense any of this makes to any of you but if you have any input on the content/wording id like to hear it. Its slightly exaggerated and not the whole truth in places but im pretty pissed off about it as you will be able to tell, i hope. Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Ian Kirwan. I am 19 years old. I am writing to you from the Cayman Islands where I have been working and residing since October of last year. I was forced to leave home due to the extraordinary delay in obtaining a driving license. This prevented me from getting a job as I live in the country with no access to public transportation. Not to mention the social disadvantage. Please try to understand the frustration that I and many others like me experience when dealing with the issue of transportation. Having had the opportunity to hear about and see first hand how the system of licensing/insurance works in other countries, I can say I am truly sickened that the Irish government has done so little to break up the insurance "cartel" currently working to destroy the chances of employment for many thousands of young people like myself. The unreasonable waiting lists to take the driving test make it impossible, even for those who can afford it, to drive legally. I applied to take the test in March 2003 and am yet to be given a test date. Not that it would do me any good now. Until the situation is vastly improved the government will not see my vote. As I understand it the demographic of those least likely to vote in an election is the same group of people being hit hardest by the injustices I have complained about in this e-mail. Surely someone in government has realized this and would work to obtain the support of so many untapped votes. As I write this e-mail I am fighting back tears. I miss my home. I miss my many friends sorely. I know however that to return home now would place me in the same position I tried so deperately to escape. I will return in six months time to the isolation of my country house and so to the real purpose of this e-mail. Will a driving license from the Cayman Islands be valid for any length of time upon my repatriation? I would like to congratulate the reader of this e-mail for wading through my rant and thank you for taking the time to do so. If it is possible that it be shown to someone involved in the decision making I would greatly appreciate it. If not, an answer to my question will suffice. Yours faithfully, Ian Kirwan.

Know what ya mean.....was in Mallorca a few months ago and it was the same. Go out about 12 and come back at 10 the next morning. After you drink your breakfast at one of the morning bars That was the LIFE!!!!!