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At least two dead and 68 injured according to BBC news. No mention of a bomb unless I’ve missed it. Awful. Yet more families grieving at Christmas.

Quite. Akin to hiding cigarettes and tobacco behind a hoarding but leaving alcohol on clear display. What's that all about? Not that that would make the former any more logical. Unless I’m mistaken I heard drink related deaths have risen. One can only assume the revenue garnered for the government from alcohol, exceeds the cost of treatment for excesses to the NHS. 🤷‍♂️ Anyhow, it’s nice to see a bit of common applied at the chemist.

At last! Went into Boots for some paracetamol and ibuprofen and was asked ‘how many would you like?’ To which I replied as many as I can have. Was given 1 pack of 96 Ibuprofen and 3x32 ( 96 tablets ) of paracetamol. In my local supermarket I regularly upset staff by going round twice ( seperate transaction ) to get the amount I want rather than having to shop in two or three different stores. Wasn’t aware pharmacists can use their discretion. Boots it is for me from now on! 🙂

If you can, and you think it ok, would you mind moving my comments re’ self defence from this thread to the thread on the latest US school shooting, where it would be more relevant?

Indeed. Without exception ( not including the bits the ferret gets ) all pheasant in this house is curried.

Very envious; have never shot at Whitfield. Nice gun too! More than capable. 👍 Am gonna have to post pics of mine now! 🙄😄

Indeed. I know a few who left for the US over the years, some as long again as the 70’s. None have ever returned. One left as a mechanic and ended up with a job for a company in LA which customised spray painted top end cars like Porsche etc. Another left for NY in 1979 ( I know cos I was at his leaving do ) as a scaffolder. No idea what he’s doing now, but he’s still there and talks like a New Yorker now apparently. Go for it. They have a national pride which we are discouraged to display.

My apologies again, I’ll start another thread.

I’m not sure the US has the highest rate of deaths caused by gun crime, but without looking it up I may well be wrong. The fact a nut job can do much more damage with a gun than a knife is totally irrelevant; we’re talking about the lack of a choice to defend oneself and others against ANYTHING. The Americans have the choice to patrol their schools, churches, whatever, with specially trained security armed with semi-automatic firearms, pepper sprays or even a baton if that’s what they choose to do. In the UK we aren’t allowed by law to carry anything to defend ourselves or those in our care with anything. Fact. If you want to imagine things, imagine what it must have felt like to sit on a bus and watch some scumbag stab to death a school girl, which happened earlier this year, and being unable to do anything about it except call the police who are minutes away. Edit: My apologies to the OP, I’ll start another thread.

Looks fab’! There’s a bloke in another syndicate I beat and sometimes shoot on as a guest who curries pheasant and brings them in wraps on shoot days. Scrumptious!

We can ‘imagine’ all manner of things if you like; we can imagine they were armed with a bazooka or planted a bomb. 🤷‍♂️ But if you want to deal in facts, the fact is the scumbag in the UK was armed with a knife, the most basic ( apart from a club ) and readily available to all, of tools, and as law abiding people we have no defence even against that. There are stabbings in the UK on a daily basis and the general public are defenceless not by choice but by law. In America they have the choice, and I’d opt for the ‘choice’ every time. I seriously worry about the safety of my kids ( and they’re both adults ) in the UK, given how things are.

On the other hand 3 girls were stabbed to death and 8 others injured at a Taylor Swift themed dance class last July in Southport, primarily because of the points I outlined in my post above. Victims not by choice but by law. In America they have the choice to protect pupils in schools and other places if they so choose. The option won’t even be debated in the UK. 🤷‍♂️ If I were the OP I’d choose a US state with a much sunnier climate than anywhere in the UK; the recreational shooting/hunting choice will still apply. 🙂👍

The Americans have only one good thing in my opinion, that we don’t have over here, and that is the right to arm themselves for self defence. Over here law abiding people are prevented BY LAW to even carry a pepper spray; our politicians and so called leaders would prefer its law abiding citizens were victims rather than carry something with which to defend themselves. Thats the only positive I can think of regards America. The cheese crisps are 💩.

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Walking through Carlisle about 5pm this evening and a young lad ( I’m assuming ) passed me on the pavement on one of those electric scooters and the stink of weed was very noticeable. Preventing that would include having to patrol the streets of course.