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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Nov 5, 2017.

  1. Amin Arrears

    Amin Arrears Well-Known Member

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    It won't stop all those self loathing privileged white people being offended on behalf of everyone else.
     
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  2. Dills double deckers

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    Flock of seagulls? Or am I just wishing
     
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  3. originallambrettaman

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    Worst band I've ever seen live, that bloke with the daft hair simply couldn't sing.
     
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  4. Happy Tiger

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    <laugh>

    I was going to put exactly that.

    ****ing awful he was.

    And he looked like a ****.
     
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  5. originallambrettaman

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    He's lost the hair, but even with over 30 years of practice, the ****er still can't sing...

     
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  6. Happy Tiger

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    Kinell OLM, no need for that.
     
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  7. Barchullona

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    And a colony of seagulls.
     
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  8. Barchullona

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    I've heard worse. Mostly folk singers.
     
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  9. Kempton

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    If some **** decides to shoot innocent people, I'd want a nearby policeman to be armed and able to stop him.
     
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  10. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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  11. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

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    There's 24 guns per 100 people in Switzerland and 88 guns per 100 people in the US, that's a huge difference.

    Do you actually have facts regarding the percentage of households with a gun? Because those ownership rates would suggest that a higher percentage of American households would have a gun, unless people have crazy stockpiles of weapons to warp the statistics.

    EDIT: 3% of Americans own 50% of the country's guns, turns out they do have crazy stockpiles of arms!

    EDIT: 32 - 43 % of American households have a gun compared to 25 - 30 % in Switzerland, you actually were just making it up.
     
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  12. originallambrettaman

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    The Swiss numbers are rather misleading anyway, they have to do military service and get to keep the guns as a souvenir at the end of their service, most are never used, most of the owners don't even have any ammunition for them.
     
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  13. Quill

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    Sounds tame for Fox News.
     
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  14. tigers 2008

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    Crazy country, politicians too scared to amend the crazy gun laws.
     
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  15. Quill

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    They aren't too scared at all, a lot of those in Congress have links with the NRA.


    For them, it would be detrimental financially to amend the law.
     
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  16. Amin Arrears

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    It's too late to amend gun laws, there's millions of guns in the country. Do you think everyone's going to hand them in peacefully?

    I can't see how changing gun laws could make any difference whatsoever.
     
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  17. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

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    It such a simple problem to understand.

    Two things cause gun crime, guns and people, it doesn't happen without both.

    In the US you have a dangerous combination of readily available guns and people willing to commit these crimes.

    Now solving this problem is a whole different matter, you need to reduce the number of guns and then understand why people in the US are so much more inclined to commit these crimes than in other developed countries.

    You'll never successfully remove the guns, its gone too far already and understanding why people do this is even more difficult. This makes it such a complex problem and why no one has ever come close to proposing a workable solution.
     
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    Many of those who would like change are scared of the political consequences both personal and party wise, the gun lobby being so powerful and far reaching
     
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  19. Amin Arrears

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    To achieve what end?

    What would you do, how would you make it work? Why would it work?
     
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  20. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

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    There's steps that can be taken so that number drops significantly over the next few decades, you'll never remove them all, just like there are plenty of illegal guns in our country despite strict laws, but there are simple ways to reduce gun ownership in the US.
     
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