Fenian420

lol I was always wondering why gangs in britain always look just like a bunch of panzies running around (no offense at all, but here gangs are a big sort of a different thing)... Iunno it would be interesting living in a place where your not allowed to have guns but in my mind thats just like one of the things that Id rather die than not be able to have, I dont know why but just feels like theyd be trying to forcefully control me then....

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TurkishDelight

I was in London when the bombing were going on, and when that dude got like 18 rounds put in his face....

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Fenian420

Damn.. How many rounds about?? and that **** happened on my birthday.. Odd way waking up.

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ScratchMonkey

A lot of TG'ers change their computer hardware more often than their underwear. After awhile, you tend to build up a "bone pile" of old hardware. Take a look at the photos of gun families, and imagine the guns are their "bone pile". Instead of being obsessed with the frivolous pursuit of video games, they're obsessed with having nifty firearms.

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Yh, the police were heavily criticized and the head of the London Metropolitan police has been advised to quit, and there were huge pressures on him to do so due to the blatant lack of any sort of intelligence. As far as familiarity with guns, there has been a huge uptake in gun crime, and it doesn't seem like the police can't handle themselves, just that they can't tell a terrorist from a civilian. They're thinking behind shooting the guy was that "he was showing resistance." Well if a group of guys jumped on me I'd do a little more than just "show resistance". Also, I have a brother-in-law who played airsoft while he was in university (you guys have colleges, no universities right?) and he wasn't much of a military man, although he said it was a very unusual thing, and relatively new and unheard of when him and his friends got into it.

Yh I know you were kidding, no hard feelings dude , and I'm the type to not hod back on my "witty retorts", but it's got a little sensitive political message in there that some may take offense to, so I guess I'll move on swiftly .

Yh, getting lost in L.A. was not a good time for me, ended up in South Central at midnight and...it was a very interesting experience. Here it's more about knives, although, like I said, in certain areas, guns are much more used than before, most of London (except the West side, they're the really uptown part of London) like North and East, but especially places like Brixton and Peckham (South London), and places like Birmingham and Manchester are getting more into the gun crime aspect. However, where I live it's just more about stabbings, but very brutal ones. In fact, just the other day, there was news about someone who I knew (but only by name) in my old school being stabbed 17 times by a gang of 13 year old boys, and some guy got an axe in his head (literally) on my road (yes, I don't live in a nice place). I'd not like to go into specific details, but I kinda got sucked into the "wrong crowd," there are some very unpleasant things that happened here and some of these people would say that gun crime is alive and well in Britain. Also, the "forcefully control" thing could honestly be said about any law, it's really just because guns are so much a part of everyday American life, as much as its not a part of everyday English/British life.

Whereabouts exactly? You mean Central London, like near the actual events, or in that general area we call London.

Yh, I just figured that these were collections, and maybe not just used so much for heists, general gang violence and fighting wars with squirrels in your back garden. I mean, I don't blame these people, I'd really want a nice gun like the ones on display here if I could.

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TurkishDelight

Like near the actual events London, not in some hotel. I stayed in a flat in the middle of the action. Most the stations were just a short walk from me.

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SharinganTH1422

Woah.

I remember that day. I walked into class and everyone was standing round the teacher's radio, (I had no idea what was happening, but I eventually caught on) trying to hear some sort of news about what was going on, people were worried, ringing anyone they thought might have been caught in the bomb blasts, it was just crazily hectic, everything was just so crazy and mad.

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If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...

Fenian420

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Yh, getting lost in L.A. was not a good time for me, ended up in South Central at midnight and...it was a very interesting experience. Here it's more about knives, although, like I said, in certain areas, guns are much more used than before, most of London (except the West side, they're the really uptown part of London) like North and East, but especially places like Brixton and Peckham (South London), and places like Birmingham and Manchester are getting more into the gun crime aspect. However, where I live it's just more about stabbings, but very brutal ones. In fact, just the other day, there was news about someone who I knew (but only by name) in my old school being stabbed 17 times by a gang of 13 year old boys, and some guy got an axe in his head (literally) on my road (yes, I don't live in a nice place). I'd not like to go into specific details, but I kinda got sucked into the "wrong crowd," there are some very unpleasant things that happened here and some of these people would say that gun crime is alive and well in Britain. Also, the "forcefully control" thing could honestly be said about any law, it's really just because guns are so much a part of everyday American life, as much as its not a part of everyday English/British life.

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Yea, its weird to imagine what people will do to others.... Here 1 week ago a guy got his head blown off execution style on the sidewalk with a pump shotty, within the last three weeks up until now just in my area of a 7 or 8 mile radius theirs been 6 murders, all by guns cept one knife who the dude got his neck slit, other 2 of the people were innocents that were just in the wrong place, at wrong time.. And this is just Seattle, a pretty peaceful and nice place otherwise..

But I mean about the "forcefully control" thing, Britain is the most surveillenced country, and its also one of the smallest.. (Out of all the nations on the planet).

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