Bojo’s general strategy.
Dunblane was why the law changed. And we haven’t had a school shooting since.
“My country holds the historic distinction of grinding our enemies into dust and then building them up into first-world economic powerhouses, all within the lifetime of people still alive today.”
Are you talking about veitnam, Iraq or Afghanistan?
“You’re at no risk whatsoever from being unable to defend yourself until the day comes where you’re unable to defend yourself.”
We have a homicide rate at 1/10 of the USA.
Guns weren’t generally used in self defense in the UK, I can only think of a few cases and they where farmers with shotguns. I grew up with fire arms in the house and I knew no one else who did. The change in murder rate won’t be due to the change in the law.
I was being sarcastic, 
Well this isn’t the gun control thread and your stats are wrong. The US doesn’t have a homicide rate 10x the UK. If you can’t think of the two countries I speak of you have a serious deficiency in your UK history knowledge.
In the USA our defensive gun uses far outweigh the criminal use of them, but that’s because we have access to them.
Bringing this back to Covid, this is a good example of how irrationally people will view things like Covid policy and gun policy. Your gun laws have not made you safer by any measure. You were a safe society before too.
The people who respond favorably to authoritarianism are susceptible to irrational policies.
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We had 10.1 homicides per million in 2020, USA had 6 per 100k. I was wrong you have 6x the homicide rate.
And you didn’t take it back to covid as you mentioned gun laws again. As guns where not generally used in self defense in the UK and we have had no school shootings since dunblane, I’d argue our gun laws have made us safer.
Nice of you to dismiss people as irrational when you don’t agree. We’ve got lower death rates for covid and homicide and we have less people in jail but i guess we just respond favourably to authoritarianism.
Are your countrymen incapable of choosing to do the right thing without a law in place enforcing it?
850k is the US number only. You need to look up your facts and (probably) check your outlook on your fellow man.
Well you are being irrational. If your measure for gun control policy success is school shootings in the UK, well, congratulations. You’ve only ever had one, and you’ve had none since giving up your rights.
Btw, I’ve got a whole set of anti-tiger attack handkerchiefs you will be interested in buying. These things work wonders. Zero tiger attacks since I started using these.
I look at before and after the passage of policy and conclude that your crime rate remained unchanged after giving up your rights.
I’m glad it’s making you feel good about your policy though. As with Covid policy at this point in the pandemic, assuaging the irrational fears of the loudest among us is more important than any human outcomes left in their wake.
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Have no idea what your point is
my sarcastic statement was based on individuals that want to live in fear based on data that was inflated to receive more funds…even the CDC is coming out and admitting that the data was based on individuals who had covid at time of death but the death was not caused by covid
my country men do not need authoritarian laws to care about their fellow man…it’s proven in the red states vs blue states
Your post was sarcasm then?
EDIT: I just saw it was sarcastic.
I didn’t take it as sarcasm, which is where my point was coming from. Moot point now, apologies for the misunderstanding
Yes, as I stated above
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No problem…I use sarcasm alot to lighten the moments
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Breaking news! Angus Young from ACDC is Pfizer struck!
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Not sure where you’re from. Most countries have more authoritarian laws already in place than most care to know or think about.
Florida
“Community immunity to control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic can be reached with the acquired immunity due to either previous infection or vaccination. Acquired immunity from vaccination is certainly much safer and preferred. Given the evidence of immunity from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, however, policy makers should consider recovery from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection equal to immunity from vaccination for purposes related to entry to public events, businesses, and the workplace, or travel requirements.”
Protective immunity after recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
People lost their jobs over vaccines that Dr. Birx said she knew ‘didn’t work’ (msn.com)
“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection,” Birx said. “And I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization. It will. But let’s be very clear: 50% of the people who died from the omicron surge were older, vaccinated.”
Dr. Birx is the former White House COVID Response Coordinator
Time to find a low-hanging branch and a length of rope.
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Carnival cruise lines just pulled their requirement to get a COVID test read negative before cruising…
Sound like its better to go back to business as usual.
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If you haven’t read much about Birx already, this is a good place to start.
https://www.science.org/content/article/inside-story-how-trumps-covid-19-coordinator-undermined-cdc
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