How many guns do you own?

[Juskimo]

Just curious, I've got an idea about a few people, just interested to see the numbers.

-Jus

[Twelver]

[Tepshen73]

I have a Glock .40 cal that I bought off a cop so it has all the neat extras off of it and 12 gauge shotgun.

[striker2550]

[Cactus Jack]

[Molina]

[Rhound50]

The 2nd ammendment says:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Anyone belong to a well regulated militia, who protects the freedom of the US?? The power and money of the NRA lobby is where we get the right to own guns not the constitution.

[droqqa]

[excession]

The US gun homicide rate is 34x that of the UK (that is despite the fact that the UK is an more crowded and urban environment).

Even Switzerland and Canada have 3x as many gun deaths as the UK.

I'm kinda with the guys with silly hats and sticks on this one

The comparison was easy enough for UK citizens - a nutter walked into a infant school twice in a couple of years - once he had a machete, the other time he had a gun license - you won't have heard of the first time, the second time was Dublane.
1996:

For comparison purposes from the newswires:

Seven slashed in school machete attack
Three young children and four adults have been attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton. They were enjoying a teddy bears' picnic at St Luke's Church of England school in the Blackenhall area. Emergency services received reports of the attack at about 1515 BST and paramedics arrived on the scene within seconds. Police are looking for a black man with a beard, in his mid-30s, 5ft 9in (1.75m) tall and of slim build. They have named a man they would like to question.
The victims were taken by West Midlands Ambulance Service to New Cross Hospital where they are being treated for stab wounds. Their conditions are not life threatening.
In just a couple of minutes the knifeman had attacked a parent barring his entrance into the school and launched a frenzied assault on the nursery group in the garden.
Wolverhampton education chairman Bob Jones has praised the bravery of parents and staff for preventing any loss of life.
In March 1997 Campbell, 33, was found guilty and sent to a secure mental hospital for an indefinite period. He was suffering from severe schizophrenia


And Dunblane:

The small Scottish town of Dunblane was racked with grief and horror last night as details emerged of the killer who had lived in their midst until yesterday, when he shot dead 16 small children and a teacher in three minutes of carnage in a primary school gym.Thomas Hamilton, aged 43, a disgraced former Scout master whose behaviour had attracted the attention of the police, turned one of his four guns on himself after killing or injuring all but one of a class of 29 five- and six-year-olds at Dunblane primary school, near Stirling.
Last night three of the 12 children at hospital in Stirling, Falkirk and Glasgow were on the critical list.As the Queen, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition registered their shock and distress at the worst multiple murder this country has seen, there were immediate calls for greater security in schools and tightening of the laws on gun ownership, last addressed after the Hungerford massacre in August 1987.
No obvious motive had emerged yesterday, but the many people who had encountered Hamilton drew a picture of a man who was obsessed with small boys and embittered by rejection. He became a Scout leader in 1973, aged 20, but was asked to leave the following year because of complaints about his behaviour at camp. He tried many times to get back into the organisation. Later he ran a boys' club - at one time in the school gym, some say - and recently, said a neighbour, he had been turned down as a voluntary worker for the primary school where he yesterday wreaked such bloody havoc.

It is believed the gunman began firing his weapons in the playground not long after school began, then forced his way past two of the 25 staff as he walked along a passageway, past the dining room, and into the gym, where 45-year-old Gwen Mayor's class was in progress.

Fifteen children and Mrs Mayor died at the scene; another child died in hospital. It is not known how many bullets were discharged during the massacre, which the police estimate lasted between two and three minutes. Only one child escaped unscathed. Two pupils were absent because of illness.

The question implies that the UK Govt. is somehow inhibiting the rights of its citizens to run around with handguns - in fact the Government was just reflecting the will of the people - any civilian with an interest in guns is either a criminal, vigilante or nutter - we don't want any of them to have them thanks.

And even though I live in the UK I have used rifles and stuff as part of my school cadet training -we even had our own firing range as I recall.

[Juskimo]

[Juskimo]

[EscapePlan9]

[Juskimo]

[Molina]

[excession]