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Thank Bob we in the UK have gun control.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10219655.stm

Is that some sort of British slang for "kick in the ***"?

Its grim up North....

It's a shame, if it didn't happen in Cumbria, it wouldn't be such a sticky situation. Hopefully it doesn't leave a big stain on Brittan's reputation as a whole.

Or it could turn into a gun fight, who's stray bullets killed even more people.

I assumed it was a joke, as a given person's much more likely to have a gun in the countryside in Britain.

What Elinda said, that is.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2010 3:51pm by Kavekk

It's funny because the debate in the UK is now about whether we should tighten our gun laws, eventhough they are some of the strictest in the world.

We were watching telly during lunch at work and talking about this. My colleagues started talking about tightening gun laws, and I said, as a joke and with a slight mental wink to you guys, "Actually, the best way to prevent this from happening would be to do the opposite, and arm everyone on the streets of England."

Hahaha, we all had a good laugh and continued with our lunches.

I agree. I think gun laws are the least of the UK's problems. There's really not much you can do to stop some crazy guy killing a bunch of random people if he really feels like it.

Same as usual. Seemed normal, "kept himself to himself", and then one day went crazy over some slighty aggravating but fundamentally trivial inheritance issue. He went round and killed some colleagues, his twin brother, his old boss that fired him, and random people on the way. Common stuff.

What makes me laugh are the TV journalists going round and asking neighbours what he was like. They obviously all say the same thing, he was nice, quiet, etc... But what do they expect? "Well, he seemed normal enough, except he had this quirky habit of carrying a gigantic shotgun around and screaming "MUUUURRRDDEEERRRR!!!" everytime the traffic light turned red, but other than that he was a jolly good bloke."

Apparently not. Everything that's been said about how he was prior to the incident seems to indicate he was a pretty ordinary middle-aged taxi driver in Cumbria.

I understand people's fascination with these things, but I think it's ultimately pointless. There will never be an explanation, or a rationale, or anything that can explain such behaviour. At some point in their lives, certain people
just completely lose it. I don't know, is there ever much more to it than that?

No, I mean I think we're all worried that this behavior is normal human behavior.

For a given value of "normal", I guess; but normal enough to recur at statistically consistent intervals.

See, that's another example. Copycat killers.

How many people are so close to the edge of insanity that someone else's insanity gives them permission to leap into the abyss?

It's so trendy to stab school children these day. I remember when it was cool.

If you want to talk about knife control you'll have to start another thread.