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Shut the fck up. No I'm not. I'm coming across as an advocate for individual rights because that's what I am. Accusing me of instability and creepiness is as distasteful as when Mark quietly suggested Dave on here was unfit to keep firearms because of his social/political views (about a hundred pages ago, probably). A crass trick, used by bitches, tyrants and people who can't argue like an adult. Pack it in. And no. I live in an uncivilised country where it would land me in prison. I know what they look like, I know what they weigh and I know loads of people do carry them. But you don't need to worry about me. You worry about you. That's the ease and joy of individual choice. Did you wake up on Monday and decide to disagree with whatever I said this week as a form of mental exercise?

Yeah. I've played parts bingo before... I'm slightly annoyed the guy didn't vac test it when he had it. How much is the gear for doing that myself and can I use it on other engines, things like Honda GX?

If if if if if. If nobody had stopped him, maybe he'd have butchered the whole carriage and the next one, and the next one, then somewhere else, then somewhere else. It comes down to individual rights again. An individual on the first train, sitting quietly with a gun in a pocket, has the right to not be butchered. They should do their best to shoot safely but at the end of the day they're trying to stay alive, which I think we can agree is fair enough!

I know what the political and legal landscape looks like. I'm clearly talking about what could be and should be. And importantly, until very recently, has been. People had these rights not very long ago at all. I'm not interested in Darren and Sharron. I'm interested in me (and then people I like). Criminals who want guns get them. Or knives. And if someone's got a knife, I want a gun. I don't mind if you find guns bulky and can't cope with how they fit with your cute autumn short jackets. I'm talking about individual rights. You do what you want. I'll do what I want. I could carry safely. Loads of people could (and do). My facebook feed last week was for some reason full of women's carrying systems. The memorable one was a full size appendix carry that didn't print in a skirt. The woman could carry a child at the same time etc. I'll say it again. It comes down to individual rights. You can't see it working. Fine. You don't have to. But you (anyone) shouldn't be telling other people (via voting for politicians who would cage decent people for carrying to protect themselves) that they shouldn't be allowed to do something just because you don't think you're capable of it. You wouldn't try to drive if you were blind but you wouldn't then tell me I shouldn't drive with my good eyesight. And yes, @Stubby. I didn't say anything about licensing. That's its own issue. https://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/about.htm

Done. All looks smooth.

You wouldn't. Picture it. Really picture it. Then watch the first 3 minutes of Law Abiding Citizen.

The right to bear arms in America is far too restricted and it shows in the violence they suffer, attacks in gun free zones etc. I'd rather live in a free country.

I'm not bothered about ifs, coulds and maybes. I'm bothered about rights of individuals and the certainty of not being armed, which is harm. I say certainty because rule one of knife fighting is you're getting cut. Fcking grisly and fcking appalling. I want to be standing twenty feet back with 16 rounds of 9mm on tap. How dare anyone tell me I should have to walk twenty feet forward and get slashed to bits instead.

Yeah, which is slightly fair. But the power that pushes my 13" or 20" at easily quarter revs would definitely push a 28" round at least a bit.

So would my thing be but it's still not better (yet, possibly).

Mike, Well that's her risk to take. Nobody's raping Lena Miculek though. Or any number of capable girls. And it's not just the capable ones that can stop baddies. It's the possibility, for a baddy, that he might run into one of the capable ones. It's a deterrent. There are loads of reported foilings of crimes by armed people. There are many, many more times more crimes that never go beyond the dallying planning stages because of the lingering doubt that the victim might fight back properly. I full well know the current legal landscape. It's wrong. Obviously I want men to be able to arm themselves too but women makes the point better. Any man who thinks self-defence tools should be restricted should look at his wife, his mother, his daughter etc and picture how much of a fight they could put up against four men who want to take turns on her cnt with a knife at her windpipe. And then ask himself if he'd rather they had the chance to shoot first. And it very obviously doesn't have to be South Africa. Is that the only place where a person has the right to not suffer violence? That guy on the train could have been carrying and he might not now be in hospital with knife wounds. Why should heroes like him be treated with contempt? If he'd have even had pepper spray, he'd have been caged for defending people. Have you ever been in a knife fight btw? I nearly have. It was fcking terrifying. I've trained unarmed knife defences with rubber knives. That's fcking terrifying enough. Look at a knife. Picture a man coming at you with it. Picture him pushing it between your ribs. Fcking grim. People need guns. I do anyway. Tell me I shouldn't be allowed them and that I should be unarmed against criminals who care about weapons laws as much as they care about other laws (offences against people, property etc).

I've been having a right laugh dealing with a German manufacturer of a thingy for my widget. National stereotype wholly deserved. Was it car cars or supply chain you used to work for spud? A name we'd know?

Hence why probably never. It’s an idea but I haven’t worked out how it’s better than a biner yet. We don’t need new things if they’re not better.

I’ve got an idea for something that does that. Coming soon (probably never).

I've been puzzling over your first post all day. It was somewhere between trying to have an argument where there wasn't one and, "He can't have read it right." But whatever. Moving on. An increase from 0.009% to 0.011% doesn't matter. 100% of people who want to carry, should be able to. And it really is as simple as let females carry guns in order to keep them safe. If you disagree, I'd put you to sitting down with distraught rape victims and comforting them with the silver lining that their rapes were at least lesser (positivistic) crimes than the one of carrying a piece of iron that only harms criminals. Until you changed your mind or starved to death, whichever comes first. It is utterly indefensible to deny the weaker sex the means to go about life freely.

Hang on. A new Jimny in France is fifty one thousand euros?

Programming more robots to fix the 80% rate of mistakes.

I highly recommend H2G2. Super prescient.

For anyone who doesn't know, this is the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There's a bit later on where Arthur discovers the bird-people of Brontitall. By throwing the cup at the machine, he inspired them to fck off the robots altogether and go back to living as birds. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Brontitall

No no no. Don't leave us hanging on that. Sounds interesting.

Aye. A mate builds legal industry AI. I'm thinking about killing him.

No doubt a generated cartoon!

I'm getting to the point of being pushed too far by self service tills. I shouted fck off at one just now and then shouted again to get someone to fix it (not rudely but in an arguably un-British way). There are five supermarkets within a few hundred metres here. I can easily boycott the ones that won't run tills (when asked, which I do, nicely), which is inevitably where this is going. They'll probably survive without my meagre spending but when I shouted earlier, the other ten people stood round the shit machines nodded in agreement. People have had enough of this bollocks.