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I also don't think its the government's business should I decide to buy a gun what I intend to do with it.

Personally I feel that if you're buying a gun someone should know why, and who else better than the government?

You already ID people for buying knives, and you limit how many packs of painkillers people can purchase. I don't see why it's necessarily any different for a gun.

Do you know what violent people who do not have access to guns are? Extremely annoying. That it. Then you called the police who come and deal with them. There are so many idiots that are still alive today who's drunken escapades would have got them shot in the United States rather than a stint in the cells to sober up.

I don't think I'll make any difference. I've known people like her my entire life and you always think that their most recent self-inflicted bad experience would encourage some introspection, but it never does.

The reason they think the way they do in the first place is because they desperately desperately want all of their failings and all of their insecurities to be the fault of someone else. Then all someone needs to come and hand them a convenient punching bag and they're happy. The problem is they'll never get better because all of their problems are self-inflicted, and it would require real introspection for them to realise that.

It's the paradox of tolerance all over again, if you hold back on these people because you feel that doing so would encourage them to change, you are denying them any incentive to change. Yet at the same time if you scold them for their beliefs they'll simply use that as reinforcement that they are the victims.

I would love to know what you feel the solution to that is. How many times in this community have you seen people say "Trump has destroyed my life, I'd still vote for him again though"?

He's like fusion research, he's always a comple of months away from exploring, and he never does.

His zombie hand doesn't seem to be getting on with the job.

She sounds like a bigot. I think it's okay to say that she's not just stupid.

She's stupid++

Yeah but then the like of farage like to claim that it's just the wrong kind of Brexit, and his would be better in some way that he can never explain

That's the power of unions. They got so powerful the politicians were scared of them and started improving worker rights out of self-preservation.

Possibly except Turkey but I suspect that most Americans don't know it exists

You are allowed guns but the reason that you have for owning a gun has to be a little bit more than "because I want one".

Also the decision about whether or not you get a gun is up to local police. And they can deny you for any reason they like including that they know you to be a frequent flyer.

But really it's more about the fact that people aren't really interested in guns outside the US. In the US they are a cultural thing, outside they are just a tool but a useful to have if you need to make use of that tool. I don't own a gun for the same reason that I don't own a quad bike, I'm not a farmer and I live in the city, so I don't need one.

I want my free helicopter. Do I have to fill in a form or what?

Yes but apparently fighting fascistism is mildly inconvenient so they're not going to do it.

I only mentioned writing to representatives because the original poster was so keen to do nothing. Anything's better than that kind of apathy.

My physics professor was the most physics professor looking physics professor the world has ever produced. He was definitely not giving out fashion tips.

Unless of course you are a fan of ugly brown woollen affairs and tweed jackets with patches on the elbows.