Syria?

Dropped by Autobooks Etc today in Burbank & picked up Metalshaping, The Lost Sheet Metal Machines #4 (if you like old aircraft, you ABSOLUTELY MUST buy this series of 7 books)
On one page is a factory display of all the sheet metal stampings for a Mossie which looks quick spectacular… & then you realize the display is two stories tall making it even more so….

Also picked up a car resto book (Revive Your Ride, by Lyles) so those are my current 2 books.

There’s been a lot of discussion in this thread about the correlation between gun ownership and crime in the US and UK, what about Switzerland where almost evey make over 18 is required by law to posses a firearm, one that is provided by the state and designed to kill. Some of these firearms are fully automatic. We don’t hear about massive crime in that country. I belive that the laws on continental europe are also much less restrictive but again we don’t hear about higher levels of armed crime there either.

You’re overlooking one important aspect:
Education. The US education system is a joke from top to bottom.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdAe3UAIVs

& on Math:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU

And…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBmhM0R2A0&feature=related

What an interesting post. Are you really suggesting that 13% of the population of America consists of young black youths involved in gangs, drug and gun crime? Do you have a source for that figure? And that those same 13% are responsible for 87% of the crime committed in America? If your figures are right, how can you explain them? For one part of the population to be so disenfranchised in a Country where We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…... is absolutely flabbergasting and a sad indictment on racial equality in the US. Those fine words taken, of course, from your own Declaration of Independence.

Regards,

kev35

It starts with the drop out rate at school…..another area where blacks lead the nation…

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Unbelievable, you had no power to arrest or detain but you were given the power to shoot someone?

Regards,

kev35

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. He wasn’t a US cop so that covers the arrest/detain part & anyone who is armed can come to the aid of a cop (or anyone else) in fear of his life.
Ferinstance… If there was a hostage/lockdown situ at the school across the street & the bad guy had a cop pinned down, but I could shoot him (the bad guy, not the cop) from my window etc then I wouldn’t be prosecuted.

Similar to an incident recently in Texas (Might have been May, or there abouts, or last year) where a B-25 (or a large aircraft of age and twin tails) had a gear, engine, and/or ID10T mechanical issues (possibly) that resulted in “unintended landing configuration” and possible damage to structure and/or paint scrapeage. The wife of current Texas goub’ner (and now Pres’dent candidate for US) Rick Perry was allegedly in or around said unconfirmed aircraft and was involved in some way. Or not.

Rumor is dumb dumb forgot to lower the gear.

I think you’l find it was a case of premature gear retraction…

Well, speaking from experience, most Brits make an informed opinion on the American way of life by watching a documentry series called er….Family Guy.:D

& the Simpsons…