polar sky wrote:The Friendly Stranger wrote:Mexicola wrote:polar sky wrote:Bought a 1943 Soviet Mosin Nagant 91/30
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I WAS going to post that I've just bought the new Mark Lanegan LP, but it feels kind of redundant after seeing this...
The whole idea of gun ownership will forever be beyond me....
Did you get it out of appreciation of it as a weapon or the history of it or some other reason? I'm genuinely interested btw. It was used during WW2 on the Eastern front right?
For me? I love guns. Grew up around them. And it's my right to bare arms. I am a careful smart gun owner. I register all my weapons and treat them with respect as well as preach safety. I am politically an Indipendant who just happens to enjoy shooting them. Also, home protection is key in these times. A local woman here had 2 men break in to her home with 10" Hunting knives. She was alone with her baby. She called 911 and told them that she was going to shoot them if they broke in. The operator said do what you need to do to defend your self. In Ohio if anyone unwelcome breaks into your home and you feel that your life threatened? You are aloud to shoot. If you're stupid enough to enter my home with an intention to kill rape or hurt my Wife or Children or me? You better think twice cause I'm going to protect my family. Now, that young women shot that piece of shit with a double Barral 12 guage and killed him. She was within her rights. Now what if she didn't have a gun? The story might have ended differently. "Mother and baby were brutitly raped and murdered by repeat offender." But thankfully she had her freedom to exercise her second amendment.
That's fair enough. I think it's a cultural thing at the end of the day. In a way I think I'd feel less safe if I had a gun in my home for fear of it being used against me, and I don't know if I'd actually be able to fire a gun if it was necessary. The thought frightens me.
The law on self defence here in the UK is pretty vague with the line between legal and illegal action defined by the use of 'reasonable force'. It's come under alot of criticism due to some high profile cases where people have been convicted for 'unreasonable force' against an intruder. In my opinion, something like this which cannot be clearly defined has no place in such an important law.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publi ... islation1/







