hi Frosty,
Pleased to hear you are ok.
Here in the UK, if I carry a knife, it would be a couple of 'coppers' [police] who would be waiting to pounce on me.
So if you had been in the UK and not carrying a knife and the two guys had mugged you, you would be either lying in a local hospital or a morgue.!!!
So wait, are you saying that in the UK you need a knife for protection from muggers despite the police, as in without knife one will end in the hospital or worse if muggers show up?
So wait, are you saying that in the UK you need a knife for protection from muggers despite the police, as in without knife one will end in the hospital or worse if muggers show up?
We do have some pretty strict weapons laws in the UK (firearms are almost completely illegal) but you can carry a knife, as long as the blade is shorter than a certain length and it's not used as a weapon.
I think our gun laws are too strict but I don't think any nutter should be allowed to carry a gun in public like in the US.
There's a hiuge backlash against 'knife crime' in the UK, carrying a knife is considered seriously illegal.
As for MikeBits story, he was seriously lucky - we teach to 'run away' if you can against a knife, but if you can't, then get possestion of the knife and use it. And by 'use it' we teach cutting the throat, stabbing the kidneys etc, all fast kill techniques. You practice these techniques until they are reflexes, and you would tend to do them without any conscious thought.
Someone attacking you with a knife is trying to kill you - kill them first if you can, hesitation is likely tio be fatal.
We do have some pretty strict weapons laws in the UK (firearms are almost completely illegal) but you can carry a knife, as long as the blade is shorter than a certain length and it's not used as a weapon.
I think our gun laws are too strict but I don't think any nutter should be allowed to carry a gun in public like in the US.
There's a hiuge backlash against 'knife crime' in the UK, carrying a knife is considered seriously illegal.
As for MikeBits story, he was seriously lucky - we teach to 'run away' if you can against a knife, but if you can't, then get possestion of the knife and use it. And by 'use it' we teach cutting the throat, stabbing the kidneys etc, all fast kill techniques. You practice these techniques until they are reflexes, and you would tend to do them without any conscious thought.
Someone attacking you with a knife is trying to kill you - kill them first if you can, hesitation is likely tio be fatal.
Nutters here are not allowed to posses firearms. If a person here completes his/her gun registration falsely, they have committed a felony and subject to serious punishment along with revoking of firearm(s). The registration even inquires to the sound mind and stability of the prospective gun owner. A background check is done through a national database, however it's the private sales between individuals that isn't tracked. It's up to the two parties to be honest and register specific firearms requiring registration. I know that if I sold a firearm to an individual, they would be accompanying me to a firearms dealer and pay for the registration transfer... otherwise I could be held libel for a multitude of charges, if they used the firearm in a crime. Keep in mind that the law has changed in recent years to reflect all this and many gun owners here have guns that are "grandfathered in" under old laws that didn't require all the paperwork.I think our gun laws are too strict but I don't think any nutter should be allowed to carry a gun in public like in the US.
If you're gonna cycle a gun's action for mechanical noise, it should be a pump shotgun. It's far louder, and with the proper ammo, far deadlier at close range versus a rifle. Furthermore, you can load the first shell as a blank for noise to deter entry into your home.I have, on 3 occasions in 40 years, avoided confrontation by letting the culprit hear the sound of me racking the mechanism of my Ruger semi-automatic rifle. He never saw the rifle, but he left immediately, and that is good enough for me! I am happy and lucky that peeping toms and burglars have good hearing.
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