RE: Mr. Lott’s article
im really not up to going back over this ground but with sucha title that IMHO it speaks for iteslf.
but this caught my eye this time “it’s getting like in America, and we don’t want to see that here.” – my point entirley, aprat form lack of health care, and the death penalty, the vast numbers of guns (was it 30% ? – sorry not viewing the whole thread) held by both ‘normal’ citizens and crminals makes america appear to be a land of gun mad nutters to some one like me who lives wiht the odd farmer with a shotgun. if it is 30% thats still one gun in every household (assume avearge family is around 4 people).
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RE: Murders per 100,000
well djcros the numbers were something like 230 million gun i amercia in a newsweek specail and the us pollation on my ten year old map of the world is down as 258 million. now i know why elp dosen’t like newsweek.
i understand the need for rifles in rural area garry and i acept that in the uk you are likley to come across farmers with shotguns, but fundmentally gun ownership is nowhere the same levels.
for the third time lets agree to disagree (we are getting nowhere)
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RE: Kra Canal .
i know when nukes first came about a proposal for a peaceful use was for “tunnelling” (for wan tof a better word) out a wider pannama canal.
canal width is what limmites US ships in width.
although nowadays some ships go round the cape of good hope and cape horn cos they are so wide
BYW – ike going through suze
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RE: Where…
yup – check out th link i gave – shows just about everything
under the FOIA the us gov has to tell people everything (almost) so its all public. also under the salt or start treatie they scrap the b52s in full view (in a way similar to cartoon – ie with a 10ton wieght froma crane straight throug the middle)
i would love to go there
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RE: Just to confirm…..
>I am heading for the IAF museum here in Delhi so wanted to
>ask will you guys be ineterested in a full article with pics
>of the museum?
hell yes !!!
im intrested in anything but the maurut (spelling) intrest me the most
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RE: Where…
i bow to greekdudes greater experience as i have no exxperience of the stes (furthest west i’ve been is finistere).
the amarcexperience site say tours still go on – in a bus with shaded windows as a recent question asked
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RE: Murders per 100,000
wiht reference to bruce lle – my point is that 99% of the uk is unarmed bar a tiny ount of criminals and the ood shotgun in the country – it scares me that 23 out of 25 amercan have a gun of any sort including assult rifels and uzis.
fundmentally ii doubtt that even in the us that every woamn caries a gun andtherefore deers criminal and i dout that that could haapen here.
here i live witht eh treat that the ira or the russian could kill me (by bomb or nuke) sinc i was born and that dosen’t particualry bother me and i ahven’t felt the need that carrying a gun will stop tthat -neither have our police.
i can see this argument is going no where (i stand firm and so fo you) so i think we should agree to disagree.
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RE: The European Union bar code……..
😀 😀 😀
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RE: What was your favourite airshow and why?
the last west malling – if i rember coorectly (i was very samll) there was a lancaster and vulacn red arrow combo.
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RE: Oscar in the Med
the M2K IS NOT carrier caperble
the rafael IS, so is the harrier, and F4
this idea is a real no brainer -greece is far better off upgarding / replacing a-7 and f-4s
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RE: The European Union bar code……..
what ???
a union jack witht he eu one in the corner or something else ???
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RE: Murders per 100,000
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 10-05-02 AT 09:27Â AM (GMT)]our police over here are unarmed unless there is an armed incident and then a specail squad with guns (mp5s) come out and they have really harsh ROE.
unlike most other places in the world our coopers are unarmed and im very proud of that. it really does worry me people having guns at all, including your average cooper.
i also don’t think that a woman having a gun will be able to help herself from a rapist as how will the rapist knowshe has a gun, and will she be willing to fire it and even so i doubt it would be used effectivly (ie lack of traing, poor sight in a dark alley, etc)
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RE: WHERE IS KABIR?!
here here
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RE: Murders per 100,000
i remain unconvinced that firearms are a good idea and that i feel that they are preety useless in slef defence situation.
but ill agree to disagree
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RE: Word Game
>is FIVE ok then Rabie???
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>regards,
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>jw
sorry what did i do ???
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