You fail to understand our motivation.
Guns are for pansy girly-girl Americans who are scared of everything and want to stand far away from someone who scares them too much when they shoot them in the back (partly so they don't get blood on their frock). Real men fight face to face with knives and fists fully expecting to have to take a bullet, stab wound or hit upside the head. We hate pansy frew-frew behaviour like yours so much we made it illegal here so that even our women would have to act more manly than you.
... in the form of a GTA style car-jacking by two teenagers just after the game was released... I still am happy to see this happen.
Those 17 year old kids whacked out of their heads on speed were going to commit a crime either way. They probably would've just beat someone to death. It wasn't the game that caused the crime, it was two kids from broken homes with easy access to amphetamines that caused the crime.
Actually a recent rider to a bill changed this such that in the case of a public emergency (such as a disease outbreak or in the case of terrorism) the executive branch can override the states and impose martial law and call in the military.
Previously this power was only available during an insurrection.
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You fail to understand our motivation. Guns are for pansy girly-girl Americans who are scared of everything and want to stand far away from someone who scares them too much when they shoot them in the back (partly so they don't get blood on their frock). Real men fight face to face with knives and fists fully expecting to have to take a bullet, stab wound or hit upside the head. We hate pansy frew-frew behaviour like yours so much we made it illegal here so that even our women would have to act more manly than you.
That -1 troll could mean jail time from now on! Don't be a troll, stay in school.
... in the form of a GTA style car-jacking by two teenagers just after the game was released... I still am happy to see this happen. Those 17 year old kids whacked out of their heads on speed were going to commit a crime either way. They probably would've just beat someone to death. It wasn't the game that caused the crime, it was two kids from broken homes with easy access to amphetamines that caused the crime.
Actually a recent rider to a bill changed this such that in the case of a public emergency (such as a disease outbreak or in the case of terrorism) the executive branch can override the states and impose martial law and call in the military. Previously this power was only available during an insurrection.