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A Political Thread pt. 2

I always get uncomfortable with immigration when people talk about bringing in Doctors from Africa and India to help the NHS. Pretty sure it should work the other way round and we shouldn't be robbing doctors from the 3rd world.
Same. It's linked to the infrastructure point. People say "build/get more". Okay, first of all, not every trained person wants to come here and new builds cost a lot and not every area wants it. For example, if you lived in a village, I can completely understand why people living there would want to stop huge developments as they moved or lived there for the space and quiet etc.
 
Yeah I get that. I used to be a gun owner in the UK and I lived in the states would probably load up
Me too...

I was in Texas some years ago, I hadn't fired a real gun before, within an hour I'd caught the bug...

The MP9 was a lot of fun, my only regret was that I didn't have a second, and I didn't jump from a building spraying bullets into the air...

That's how I want to go!
 
Really? Any link to that?

I know (or think I know I haven't checked) that mass shooting stats can be misinterpreted as any incident where 3 people have been shot is classed as a mass shooting but I've never heard anything about brandishing a weapon miles away from a school, not shooting or killing anyone, being classed as a school shooting.

Ultimately, though, I think most Americans are like @ChicagoKid they accept it's bad but are ultimately happy to have it as a trade off to keep their guns. It is very ingrained in their culture which is hard for us Europeans to understand.
I'd have to go looking... but school shooting is a term for a gun being used within a vicinity of a school, not sure of the distance.

I think there was a case previously where there was a drug deal gone wrong outside a school, 3 people died and the news went wild on the new school mass shooting, until they realised it wasn't really. I think there was an incident of a school shooting where a pupil found a bullet lodged into a fence.
 
Me too...

I was in Texas some years ago, I hadn't fired a real gun before, within an hour I'd caught the bug...

The MP9 was a lot of fun, my only regret was that I didn't have a second, and I didn't jump from a building spraying bullets into the air...

That's how I want to go!
Shot plenty in the army and I was a private gun owner here but there was more opportunity to fish than shoot so sold them and handed my licence in. If I lived in Canada or US I would possibly shoot more unless I lived in Florida
 
Shot plenty in the army and I was a private gun owner here but there was more opportunity to fish than shoot so sold them and handed my licence in. If I lived in Canada or US I would possibly shoot more unless I lived in Florida
Brits love Florida. It's so interesting. Maybe because it's so difference.
 
Shot plenty in the army and I was a private gun owner here but there was more opportunity to fish than shoot so sold them and handed my licence in. If I lived in Canada or US I would possibly shoot more unless I lived in Florida
I'm all for 2nd amendment for the UK, it would solve a fair few issues hahaha
 
Not sure one why any sane person would be running around with a gun near a school at night.

Given the amount of guns America has it amazes me how so many still couldn't hit a cows ars£ with a banjo.
 
**** me my job is boring me to the verge of insanity, probably wrong thread but i don't give a ****. Only way i clawed through last week was Cheltenham
 
I'd have to go looking... but school shooting is a term for a gun being used within a vicinity of a school, not sure of the distance.

I think there was a case previously where there was a drug deal gone wrong outside a school, 3 people died and the news went wild on the new school mass shooting, until they realised it wasn't really. I think there was an incident of a school shooting where a pupil found a bullet lodged into a fence.
There is not one standard definition across the US for "school shooting" but this is one that it seems is most used

It defines school shootings as situations when someone brandishes or fires a gun on school property or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time or day of the week, or motivation.

A gang shooting at 2am on a Saturday would somehow constitute a "school shooting" by this standard. Easy to see using this metric how the numbers can easily get skewed, especially when it comes to schools in high crime areas.

 

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