2Nd Amendment Tongue Twister Time....

[ToraToraTora]

What is it that the gun lobby think we don't get that we do get but appear not to get about the whole gun ownership business?

[-Talbot-]

Couldn't you have stuck a bit of Cockney rhyming slang in just to make the question even less understandable?

[Old_Geezer]

Everything ?

[woofgang]

you'd have to ask them.

[mikey4444]

Come on TTT...give a clue here !

[Old_Geezer]

Be fair. T³ is expressing what is a known unknown for him; telling us for whom it is an unknown unknown what the issue is. Hoping that someone for whom it is an unknown known catches on, realises, and tells us; or even someone for whom it is a known known. Then we can all be enlightened.

But I don't know.

[woofgang]

ha ha OG for best answer. How long did it take you to write OG?

[ToraToraTora]

ok what I mean is that the gun mob think that we don't really understand why they must have guns and are therefore retarded. We actually do understand but do not agree with their reasoning, thus the impasse. Ask the gun lobby and they'll say arm everyone from birth with a handgun, uzi 9mm and rocket launcher and the whole world will be much safer as we would all nullify each others weaponry. I think the civilised world can see the folly of that. reasoning.
How's that?

[woofgang]

well apart from the sweeping generalisations......

[youngmafbog]

But by the same token we continually see people comparing the UK with the US as their justification for banning guns, and that simply is not a valid comparison. For instance I dont recall the last time anyone had a Bear in their back garden and if they did Plod would not be far away. Many parts of the US are remote, there is no law enforcement - you are on your own.

[Old_Geezer]

One usually allows firearms in specific circumstances even in the UK. But they are not generally available as a right, licences issued as a mere formality to those without previous, in the manner they are elsewhere.

[Khandro]

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

I hope that answers your question, and a Happy New Year.