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You said: “strict gun laws equals low gun crime that holds for the vast majority of countries in the world.” The first line is a definitive statement with no qualification. The second line states that the definitive statement does not hold true in all instances. Granted, the lack of any...

I know, I’m living there at the moment…….

You just contradicted yourself in the space of two sentences.

Perhaps if you read some of the previous posts, you may notice that exactly this point has been made…… You made a statement of fact and then went back on it claiming ‘outlier‘ status on a country with one of the highest gun murder numbers in the world. If we went a little deeper we might just...

Nice sidestep, are you in politics? 🙄🙄

Wrong. Mexico has strict gun controls.

I agree, as far as the UK goes, I think we have the balance about right. As for comparing countries, I brought that up precisely to make the point that each one is different, but I maintain that the situation in the US has a direct impact on that in Mexico, something that I believe is...

I would like to see some evidence of that….. It’s also a well known fact that Mexico has very stringent gun control in terms of legally held weapons. I would also be interested in the figures for the US regarding crimes involving weapons which are legally registered, regardless of whether they...

The figure came from an article in the LA Times, I’m not aware of how rigorous their editorial scrutiny is, hence the use of “suggest”… Of course I wasn’t suggesting that gun dealers are directly supplying Mexico en masse, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that one or two people...

I believe that is true, although the rise in illegal gun possession would probably have occurred anyway, although of course there is no way to prove this. What I find interesting is that you can have countries with high legal gun ownership/possession (i.e Switzerland, although perhaps not the...

I would like to introduce the statistics from a country yet to be mentioned (as far as I am aware). It has only one official firearms dealership…..(the US has 67,000)…… The rules for citizens to legally hold a firearm are arguably as tough or tougher than the UK….. Murder by firearm accounts for...

A very interesting discussion. I’m not surprised at the diversity of opinion. To me it seems that the biggest improvements in safety, whether it be the equipment, training or legislation have been countered by the almost total disappearance of that old favourite, common sense. As for having the...

Forgot to add you can get drilled bar stock which would save an operation

Chopsaw such as Evo with an appropriate blade, then jig on pillar drill for centre hole. Quick, cheap, safe, easy and versatile….

North Cotswolds 14 inch table saw Planer thicknesser Spindle moulder (not much tooling yet) Routers Sanders Track saw Bandsaw Pillar drill Metal fabrication (MIG, MMA, Plasma cutter, metal saws) Kettle Fridge Dog friendly

I’d be happy to get involved, in my opinion it’s no different to helping a mate out. In fact you are more likely to have something horrible happen if it is your mate as you are more likely to let them get involved in whatever task it is. 14 inch table saw, planer/thicknesses, spindle moulder...

I totally agree, mankind is the worst thing to happen to this planet….so far

That’s a great analysis, and I agree 91.247% with your analysis, but my fundamental problem with all of this is that you wont get the people with all the money to spend it on stuff that doesn’t make them richer……

I beg to differ, in respect of the Earth and it’s resources being created for man alone. An awful amount of sentient beings other than **** sapiens would call this planet their home…

All very interesting and as recently noted, rather amusing. My slant on things: one of the most 'convincing' articles on the subject that I have seen used a basic risk assessment analysis; up one side you have 'do nothing' to 'do everything possible at whatever the cost', along the bottom you...