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Para 3: Yes, we shouldn't have to say this but the gun has no place in democratic politics no matter how vile I find my opponent. But a: he came over and lectured us in Blighty about how we don't have free speech here. We responded by tutting cos that's what we do. He went back to the land of free speech and got shot dead while speaking. Again, no-one deserves to be shot but don't come over 'ere and lecture me, bruv.

Also, I find it funny that he literally said a few dead innocents was a fair price to pay. Or did he mean other innocents, just not him or his loved ones? In which case his hypocrisy reeks even more. Look, if in 7 years time we do a massive free rave for the 40th anniversary of Castlemorton and I get up on to the roof of the warehouse like in the old days, but I do so much K and Spesh I end up dancing over the edge and falling to my death, you lot would be perfectly entitled to laugh at me. Unlike him, I don't think dead ravers is a price worth paying. But I do know the risks I take getting off my head on the roof.

I think the reaction of the left is despicable. But he did say that innocent deaths are a price worth paying.

Para 2: Exactly. In 1776, a musket and some non-uniformed camo normal clothing helped beat our redcoats. An AR15 is no use against an Apache gunship, an F-35B, a swarm of drones and an ICBM. Pretending otherwise is pathetic. So this save us from the redcoats stuff is just nonsense. They just have a gun fetish and in all probability, what they really worry about is black people being armed while they're not.

Para 1: I fully agree. I don't wanna come over all Irish but it terms of outlawing guns, I wouldn't start from here if I were them. I don't claim to have a solution. All I claim is that if you fetishise your guns laws to such an extent that you think dead innocents is an acceptable price to pay, don't ask me not to laugh when you get shot. Especially when you've just come back from telling us we don't have free speech while you do.

I know Yanks don't get irony, and I accept that I'm going beyond irony into sarcasm and it's not very pleasant to use irony to hurt a family who are grieving a murdered love one, but I doubt they read Awimb and I never claimed to be pleasant.

Guns and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
This isn't meant to be a criticism (well, it kind of is) but have you ever actually been to the US?

You have what appears to be a very one-dimensional view of a country that is far too large, complex and diverse to be captured in one dimension.

Some of the nicest and most welcoming, down to earth people I've ever met. Although your Texan can be a bit touchy