I can also buy the additive that turns gasoline into napalm . . . which thickens the fuel and makes it sticky so that it adheres to the target. Please see below:
I consider myself to be patriotic, but there are times and occasions when I really, really hate my country’s laws and politics.
Military grade rifles are bad enough, but flame throwers are being phased out of the military because they’re considered barbaric (which they are) and inhumane . . . yet I can buy one an hour after I escape from a mental hospital, and I don’t need a background check.
The police in my country have a reputation for being indiscriminate when they shoot people, but when cops have to be concerned about things like this . . . their aggression becomes more understandable.
I’m saying this in the spirit of fairness, as I can’t stand cops.
BTW, ammended from last post: Here is another company that sells flamethrowers:
I also consider myself to be of patriotic bent and yes, I am also ashamed of my country at times, none more so than our Tory government and the increasingly obvious crap from our leaving the EU.
Of course, despite actually wanting the best for my nation (and, to be fair, people of other nations), those who voted for us to shoot ourselves in the foot will claim I’m not patriotic at all; cue the “If you hate Britain so much why don’t you [expletive deleted] back to the EU you love so much?”
Yes, and in my lifetime they have gone from “to serve and protect” to a militarized goon squad lacking the education and awareness needed for de-escalation, mental crises, domestic conflict, etc… Additionally, they are completely bereft of legal training needed to insure the rights of the individual.
I am for required extensive education and training for police, to be justified with commensurate pay scales. I have long advocated for psychological profiling of police candidates to insure suitability for what is clearly a difficult and demanding profession in many instances.
Military is government. National. Militia is State, Citizen. Welcome to the Land of the Free. The Federal government is pulling a workaround federal laws which prevent the military from controlling the citizenry. This began after the Vietnam War. They began militarizing the police force by making military surplus and federal money, for the purchase of such surplus, available to police departments under the ‘War on Drugs’ ruse. Our civil rights (government restrictions) are being eroded away. Civil forfeiture of our cars, homes, and other properties, is commonplace in today’s police state. Search warrants have been issued against students who defaulted on student loans.
This is not the America of the 60’s or 70’s. It is not the America of our mothers or fathers. It certainly is not the America our founding fathers had in mind when they created the country. This place is getting scary. I’m lucky I will not be here for another generation. I think the place is falling to shit.
The Posse Comitatus Act disallows the use of federal troops as a police force unless Congress overrides it, or the use of force is “expressly authorized by the Constitution.” However, the Constitution does not provide for military use as a police force in any capacity, so this phrase has been one that the courts have not been able to answer.
I was looking at the gun ownership figures… England & Wales something like 1.8 million registered guns, 1 million unregistered; Canada something like 2 million registered, 10 million unregistered and I thought the UK was bad enough but the US… 1 million registered, THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO MILLION unregistered. That’s FUCKING INSANE!
By extension, IMO anyone supporting that is also FUCKING INSANE!
I’m surprised there are that many firearms in the UK.
Does this number reflect military and police, or private citizens? Or both combined?
It is my understanding that there were only 64 total gun deaths in the UK in 2017 (population of about 68 million people), while the USA had almost as many in just one mass shooting (59 dead in Las Vegas at a music concert). The First Battle of Fallujah had 54 allied casualties in about 6 weeks of combat.
Yet I was also led to believe that criminals in the UK simply started carrying jars of concentrated acid or a solution of caustic lye to throw in someone’s face in order to steal what they want, so crime hasn’t gone away, but simply changed.
Is this true? Or have I been listening to too much antigun propaganda?
As at 31 March 2022, there were: 151,218 firearm certificates on issue , a 3% decrease compared with the previous year. 522,627 shotgun certificates on issue, a 5% decrease compared with the previous year. 539,212 people who held a firearm and or a shotgun certificate, a 5% decrease compared with the previous year.
Colectors — Not individual people. Trades people who go to gun shows. Shop owners. We have a gun market that is not present in other countries. “Ownership” does not mean what you think it means.
To be fair he did say in his opinion, and one thing is clear, there is huge cultural chasm between gun ownership in the US and in the UK, to many in the UK probably does seem “crazy.” Though of course I don’t believe everyone who owns a gun is crazy, but the attitudes do seem bizarre to me.
I was interested in how Pew went about gathering the data to arrive at this result. In particular, I wanted to know if this reflects only legal/registered ownership and what the level of confidence is in the results.
From the Pew website:
“Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses…survey was conducted with 10,606 ATP members from June 14-27, 2021”
So….the result you focused on represents ~10k people with addresses. I could find no +/- level of confidence. Other than heritage, no other demographics were cited. There was no indication whether non-legally obtained firearms possession was included.
I suspect you can guess that I have a great deal of skepticism regarding this study.
I saw another report that cited 32%, but it was not as nicely presented. Yes. There are certainly a lot of illegal guns on the streets of the USA. I have no issue at all with cleaning those up or holding people accountable for possession of any gun used in a crime. I’m not necessarily opposed to gun registration, but I am opposed to the government profiting from gun registration. In short, I don’t care who knows I have a gun but when the government tries to charge me for having it. I say NO> I already paid taxes when I bought the damn thing. I pay taxes every time I shoot it. I contribute to society by paying taxes for various accessories. I’ve done my duty.
Sounds like a very sweet woman. You are really lucky. Imagine if those machetes were rolling pins. Little gifts that keep on giving, year after year, after year, after year. Oh, what I would give to have one good slice from a machete. Just one quick and easy slice and then peaceful oblivion. The closest I ever got to that was the 3 months I pretended to be in a coma. I begged the doctors not to reveal my malingering, but the insurance had run out, and they needed the bed for some idiot with a screw loose who had lost all his oil. Oh, I dream of the peace machetes could bring!
