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I have hardly ever posted - and before I get abused I think this is one of the best hotrod sites around, you guys rock!! I hate to bring up and old thread.. but..Dave S in my opinion is a car building legend and I am 100% with you on this subject, and if one of you pro gun guys can actually give me a "real" reason for carrying a weapon, regardless gun, knife or whatever I will be impressed. Like we say in oz drink a cup of concrete and harden the F up !!!

I am an Ozzie, and lived in Texas from 2000 to 2003 and have had this debate with my American friends so many times, and I have lots of American friends . But not once have I heard a decent argument for carrying guns. My first day in Houston three guys were shot and killed at a car wash just around the corner from Rice village.

Sure we have violence in Oz, but we don't unload a 9mm every 10min like you guys do. Its mental, really think about it for a while - the world if a tough place, but how many of you have actually left the great USA!! The rubbish about hunting for food ?? c'mon give me a break, it cost a couple of bucks to get a cheese burger - your ammo costs more. Also FYI I have worked and lived outside of Oz for the past 15 years - including some pretty rough places in the " middle east" and Africa.

If i hear its not guns that kill people, people kill people one more time I will puke. Sure we kill people in oz but guns crimes are nearly non existent..

Anyway stop shooting people and the world will be a better place.

Cheers,

Lyndsay!1

Originally Posted by westoz

I have hardly ever posted - and before I get abused I think this is one of the best hotrod sites around, you guys rock!! I hate to bring up and old thread.. but..Dave S in my opinion is a car building legend and I am 100% with you on this subject, and if one of you pro gun guys can actually give me a "real" reason for carrying a weapon, regardless gun, knife or whatever I will be impressed. Like we say in oz drink a cup of concrete and harden the F up !!!

I am an Ozzie, and lived in Texas from 2000 to 2003 and have had this debate with my American friends so many times, and I have lots of American friends . But not once have I heard a decent argument for carrying guns. My first day in Houston three guys were shot and killed at a car wash just around the corner from Rice village.

Sure we have violence in Oz, but we don't unload a 9mm every 10min like you guys do. Its mental, really think about it for a while - the world if a tough place, but how many of you have actually left the great USA!! The rubbish about hunting for food ?? c'mon give me a break, it cost a couple of bucks to get a cheese burger - your ammo costs more. Also FYI I have worked and lived outside of Oz for the past 15 years - including some pretty rough places in the " middle east" and Africa.

If i hear its not guns that kill people, people kill people one more time I will puke. Sure we kill people in oz but guns crimes are nearly non existent..

Anyway stop shooting people and the world will be a better place.

Cheers,

Lyndsay!1

Ive got a good reason for you westoz. Lets say you come home from a hard days work, to find your family held hostage, your daughter has already been raped, your sons throat slashed, and your wife is next. Would you say please finish up and leave guys, and dont hurt anyone else. guess what your next on the list for breaking up the party ! Thats a chance I am not willing to take. People are murdered, robbed, raped, and beat daily. Just because it has not happened to you yet does not mean it cant happen. Kill or be killed, what you do is your business, I choose to fight for my familys lives and my own.

Thanks for dragging this back out for another round of bitter posts !

I once spent two months in Taiwan installing a machine. The most common questions that I was asked was "how many sons do you have and how many guns do you own?" I found that the more sons you have, the more comfortable retirement you have. For guns, they had a law that, if you are caught with a gun, you die by firing squad...
guns were a big item of interest to them. Then, they quite often asked "what's your opinion regarding knife control?"......didnt quite realize what that meant until I heard that the zealots wanted to outlaw knives among law-abiding citizens. They had a problem with criminals using knives in crimes......"when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives"