Banning guns - not banning guns Black - white There is a chasm of grey in between. Asking the US to ban guns is not the way forward. First step is to introduce tighter laws, taxes, enforce them and make it a more stringent set of rules/circumstances to be able to buy one. It will take decades, but it has to be a stepped process. Asking for a ban just won't work. It'd be like banning fish n chips here.
Depends really. If Fish & Chips was proven to be extremely harmful to one's health, to the point that prolonged exposure will very much likely end in tragedy, then the British might find it easy to say OK, ban it. But I take your point. A stepped process.
Perfect blue skies here. Wonderful. Fresh to chilly. It's the second week in November Me wonders if February and March will be a weather backlash?
What about alcohol? Proven to be extremely harmful to people but you can guarantee there would be uproar if people wanted to ban it. Guns won't be banned over there in my lifetime at least. Far too ingrained.
La Nina is happening at the moment which means a cooler Pacific ocean, which in turn creates a colder climate for the UK. It's highly likely most of the UK will see snow this winter.
My little cat, Boy, got taken into hospital this morning as he's been sick and got a lot worse over the weekend. Lots of tears going on here. They break your heart the little buggers.
DefinitelyOTE="Le Tissier's Laces, post: 11108816, member: 1013407"]My little cat, Boy, got taken into hospital this morning as he's been sick and got a lot worse over the weekend. Lots of tears going on here. They break your heart the little buggers.[/QUOTE] Definitely as bad as a sick child when a pet gets ill. All the best Laces and Boy.
Except that history shows that the British government would be more likely to slap customs duty on fish and chips than ban them, as with alcohol and tobacco!
Funny you should consider alcohol as a substance worth banning, because in the States that's just what they did. Then after 13 or so years they changed their minds. See the irony.? As I've said before, the USA is far too in love with its gun history. One day they will wake up and realise that it's all a sham. But hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people will needlessly have their lives prematurely stopped before that happens. What a selfish race they are.
The Government get a lot of money from taxing petrol.....just as from drink and cigarettes....what will they tax to replace that income when petrol and diesel cars are banned? And how will they produce all the extra electricity needed for electric cars when we already import electricity from the grid during winter now? Honest questions as we were discussing it down the pub.
Well they'll never ban alcohol because if we all sobered up nobody would vote for them. Cigarette smoking is dropping rapidly so I guess cocaine and we're doing pretty well producing electricity from wind - wind?
