Sure if you want to... I'm sure others will join in. :)

Second only to food, food is my favorite thing to do and talk about. Let's talk about food... why yes... let's do!

Magprob, you are hereby invited to the weird food combonations a/k/a gun control thread.

LOL, I think you may have been the one to initiate it with the peanutbutter sandwich post.

Well let me lean my A-K against the wall here and I'll just dig right in!

Here's the link to the food thread for magprob and anyone who wants to join in:

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/cookin...lol-27443.html

Have any of you been car jacked.
Have you lost afriend because for gangs and drugs.
Have you lost a brother because he stood up to the gangs.
I don't live in the bad part of town. The town I live in only has 600 people dogs and cats.
But I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. I never used drugs joined a gang. But I would rather protect me and mine then become another statistic.

That is why I never leave home with out a gun. That is one of the reasons I love living were I do. Nobody bothers me and I don't bother them.

It is like the boy scouts always be prepared.
I was a boy scout.
I personnaly have been shot once and stabbed twice. There will not be a next time.
Everybody should learn to shot a gun and protect themselves.

Amen

Turning my argument around on me eh?

I don't want this to become a heat religious discussion, but…

I have seen people on American TV saying that is was their god given right to go in and invade Iraq.

What?

How these people can know that god has told them to do a or b is beyond me.

Invoking god's name like that only serves to marginalize him.

Does god exist? I don't know, but who is to say he would be on America's side and not Iraq's?

America killed innocent civilians, isn't that against gods wishes?

But I digress…

The point I'm trying to make it that the right to bear arms is given to the citizens by the government, NOT god. Americans have such a right, Canadians do not (that is, in the constitution).

Would you guys like a sandwich?

I just had a sandwich.
For breakfast.

Go to the bible dictionary and look up armeagedon.
It says in the bible dictionary there will be war to end all wars.
Maybe we started that war who knows.
Look it up in the king james version of the bible.
Enough about religion or we will get this thread closed don't want that it is a very good read.

I am so sorry this has turned out to be a religious post, I did not mean it to go that way. We all have our own opinions, even though they may not agree, but that is what makes each one of us different.

I was mainly interested to see how gun control has helped to increase crime in other areas of the world.

Religious thread department is two doors down and to your left, boys! :D

Praise the Lord and pass the pickles!

Read the last line of post 70
I don't want this thread to close it is a good one.
Fried pickles are good but you can keep the banna and peanut butter sandwiches

The Police over here have only been armed a relatively short time but the number of "accidentals" is incredible.

If these had been U.S police I honestly believe they would have been prosecuted.

My only reason for this is from the films and TV movies where U.S. police have had to kill in "line of duty" and had one hell of a game proving their innocence or reason for killing.

The story of Jean Charles - the Brazilian electrician working in London - who was dragged out of his seat on the Underground train, pinned to the floor, face down (therefore of great danger to the police and public?? ) and had 8 (eight) bullets pumped into his head is pretty well known throughout the world.

On this occasion the police have been found not culpable - to the best of my knowledge with no reason or cause being given.

Since our Police have had an armed division they have LEGALLY murdered :- - a man with a table leg wrapped in paper (the calibre of the table leg was not specified but was deemed a threat) - another man walking with the girlfriend of a known or suspected criminal ( threat undetermined ) - a man whose home the police broke into where they found him naked in bed with his girlfriend- jumping up in alarm (wouldn't you? ) he was shot dead as being a threat.

If this were the Keystone Kops or something, the funniest one (and I don't mean in the comical sense) was the poor ******* in London driving a red Mini who was shot and killed because the car he was driving looked like the suspected one that the police were looking for. (How many red Minis in the country in those days?? )

Then last week the police break into the family home of a "suspected" terrorist, who apparently hearing the commotion in his own home - goes down the stairs and gets shot point blank in the chest.

He did not die -- but I am NOT taking bets on the police getting prosecuted even with a LIVE witness this time.

Therefore Mr Average American -- think yourself lucky - at least you have the chance of firing back at the B******s - we do not -- AND it is illegal to carry even a Knife here. It's a good job there aren't many pipe smokers around these days with those lethal weapons they used to carry around to clean the bowls of their pipes.

P.S. ----- A day or so after the brazilian guy fiasco - the Chief of the Metropolitan Police told us our thoughts should be with the poor armed Policeman who, like all our armed police -- were VOLUNTEERS!!

Sorry -- but to my mind this means that ever trigger happy Clint Eastwood , Charles Bronson etc, etc, is volunteering to shoot who the hell they like with (so far) complete immunity.

Although the majority of these killings have been declared unlawful - as yet no one has been prosecuted.

Funny old world " Innit "

Yeah it's too bad how threads often go off topic. I've had a couple of threads I've started get closed because of religious fights in particular. That seems to be a particularly heated subject, even more so than politics.

Well as you've heard myself and other Canadians say, in Canada I don't think gun control has increased crime, here at least. My opinion, from experience in the foster care system, is that crime is increased by poverty and the drug abuse, gangs, etc, that often results from kids being raised in poverty. At least that seems to be true where I grew up.

This might be one of my fav quotes of all time... and that's saying a lot.

Sorry Orange - but they will keep sticking the head over the parapet and it is just too tempting.

I will try to refrain in future.

PROMISE!! ;)

Haha well it's not your fault, Jonegy... lots of people contribute to the arguments, and it's usually only when it gets nasty that they are closed.

KP have to spread some more love, so I will say:

Can I have some of those pickles please?