... do you live in America?
Number of homicides in the US in 2004: 16137 ~= 537 per 100,000 population (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/circ umsttab.htm)
Number of homicides in the in England and Wales 2004/05: 825 = 1.5 per 100,000 population
(http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/page40.a sp)
Here's a clue - it would probably be best not to call people who you'd like to pay you money "Aliens". Some people might find that a little off-putting.
I thought for a moment they were calling Bill and Linus aliens, which, now that I think about it, makes a scary kind of sense.
The Grisoft product has worked very well on my home machines for several years. It doesn't seem to burn too much CPU. My wife's machine did pick up some sort of malware a few months ago, which it took me a while to clean off, so it's clearly not foolproof. OTO it's certainly worth what I pay for it.
From tfa:
"The United States spends about $5,200 per person on health care while England spends about half that in adjusted dollars."
So you lot are spending twice as much to get worse results? Great system guys. It's shameful that in the the richest country in the world people are suffering and dying because they can't afford to see a doctor.
It's completely impossible for any private citizen to legally own an automatic weapon in the UK. This seems like a very good thing to me
Why the hell would anyone want an assault rifle in their house? If you accept that it's a good idea to have a gun to defend oneself from burglars (I don't), a pistol has to be a more practical option. And defending yourself from "The government" is a pretty stupid idea. Shooting at "The government" is actually shooting at civil servants. You can't shoot at "the government" any more than you can shoot at "the environment" or "the economy".
Perhaps you and your buddies would like to all get together and shoot at civil servants to try and change "the government's" mind. We have a name for that in the 21st century - it's called "terrorism".
Why not replace the procedure for applying for an automatic weapon with a single question - "Do you want to own an automatic weapon?" Nobody who answers yes to this question should be permitted to do so.
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... do you live in America? Number of homicides in the US in 2004: 16137 ~= 537 per 100,000 population (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/circ umsttab.htm)
Number of homicides in the in England and Wales 2004/05: 825 = 1.5 per 100,000 population
(http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/page40.a sp)
Here's a clue - it would probably be best not to call people who you'd like to pay you money "Aliens". Some people might find that a little off-putting. I thought for a moment they were calling Bill and Linus aliens, which, now that I think about it, makes a scary kind of sense.
The Grisoft product has worked very well on my home machines for several years. It doesn't seem to burn too much CPU. My wife's machine did pick up some sort of malware a few months ago, which it took me a while to clean off, so it's clearly not foolproof. OTO it's certainly worth what I pay for it.
From tfa:
"The United States spends about $5,200 per person on health care while England spends about half that in adjusted dollars."
So you lot are spending twice as much to get worse results? Great system guys. It's shameful that in the the richest country in the world people are suffering and dying because they can't afford to see a doctor.
It's completely impossible for any private citizen to legally own an automatic weapon in the UK. This seems like a very good thing to me
Why the hell would anyone want an assault rifle in their house? If you accept that it's a good idea to have a gun to defend oneself from burglars (I don't), a pistol has to be a more practical option. And defending yourself from "The government" is a pretty stupid idea. Shooting at "The government" is actually shooting at civil servants. You can't shoot at "the government" any more than you can shoot at "the environment" or "the economy".
Perhaps you and your buddies would like to all get together and shoot at civil servants to try and change "the government's" mind. We have a name for that in the 21st century - it's called "terrorism".
Why not replace the procedure for applying for an automatic weapon with a single question - "Do you want to own an automatic weapon?" Nobody who answers yes to this question should be permitted to do so.