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First of all, where have I ever said we should ban guns? I've said repeatedly that I don't favor a gun ban. You don't even know what I think you're to busy projecting your fear onto me. Let me assure you I don't want to take your guns away nor do I want anyone else to do it.

Secondly if you think CNN if left leaning then you don't know what the left is. Mainstream television media is corporate leaning not left leaning.

Oh and the reason I keep bringing up Alex Jones is because you are saying the exact same things he says on his show and that gets disseminated through his "news" outlets. So even if you don't get your information directly from him you're parroting it pretty well. I've tried to understand your view but you just attack me for not believing your premise.

What a marvelous example of black and white thinking!

By the sound of that I bet you favor some kind of restrictions above and beyond what we already have (i.e. high capacity magazine ban, "assault weapons" ban, or closing the gun show "loophole" to name a few of the more common ones).
"No one wants to take your guns" is the latest anti gun response to anything opposing gun control or questioning the motives of antis.

"No one wants to take your guns" is the latest anti gun response to anything opposing gun control or questioning the motives of antis.

No it's actually an old response to people who are entrenched in the idea that the big bad government is going to repossess everybody's guns despite all evidence to the contrary.

No. There are just 2. One and two are not separate things as you list them. Additionally, as previously mentioned, there is the ability, if you cannot manage your own affairs and thus are on the list, to request an exception.

This is not as keeps being stated a blanket take all guns away from everyone. And i have no idea what makes you think that America - a country that loves its guns - would for one minute sit idly by and let the government come door to door to round up all the guns as you postulate. No matter what the government wants or decides, that would never happen.

I also have to agree with Delta. This policy is not remotely in the line of the holocaust; to draw that comparison is too far.
I understand that you feel singled out and guns are your Ultimate focus, but taking someone's guns away Because they are legally incompetent or are mentally ill AND on disability AND have been found unfit to manage their own affairs does not remotely compare to, nor substantiate a call of "they came for the Jews..."

First, you can still get guns in the UK. There's some hoop-jumping, and choice is restricted, but you can get a gun. I think the farmer up the road from me owns one. There's just very little public interest in owning one.

Second, the UK had no such right to firearms as the US does, in either law or public sentiment, and there simply isn't the large public desire for guns themselves or demand for a right to their being owned, let alone the volume of guns and gun ownership.

I don't recall the public mood or legislation after the Hungerford massacre. I was too young. I do after Dunblane. Gun owners were pretty clearly told, 'we're coming for your guns'. You can still own a gun but again, there are heavy restrictions.

Our last gun mass/spree kill - conducted with legally owned firearms, and the first in the 14 years since Dunblane - was in 2010. In the near 20 years since Dunblane, 6 police officers have been shot dead, and I make it that about 40 people have been killed (shot or otherwise) by the police. In that time, UK population has been about 60 million, and US about 300 million, so you'd want to multiply those numbers by 5 to come to a rough equivalent of the future you fear.

It took me ages to try and understand the US mindset or situation around guns, because the UK mindset/situation simply does not compare. Then I figured it probably has the same meaning to a lot of the US as the National Health Service does to many in the UK.

The big bad government, or I should say its elected officials, have been pecking away at the right to bear arms piecemeal for generations. Sometimes successfully and sometimes not.

Neither. They are both war mongers.