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99% of the attention you get with your GT3 is positive, but what about the 1% who want to take your car? I think about were I drive and park my car for this reason. I have read police accounts of carjackings and even if you jump out of the car and handover the key it doesn't guarantee you won't be shot.
It's the ugly unspoken side of driving a nice car. You make yourself a target no getting around it.
America has so many guns, there's no turning back. If strict gun laws go into affect, guess who has them? It is really unfortunate that it has gotten to this point....just heard the statistic that there are enough registered guns in the US that just about every person regardless of age could have one!
I'm all for personal freedom, but it also comes at the high price of all the crazies having access which is why the US also has the highest rate of mass murders. Now if only single shot muskets were available (the guns around when the constitution was written)......
G43 is a great little shooter! I have a shield 9mm and they are very similar. The G43 is a little smaller, which I do like. If I didn't already have the shield I'd have gotten the G43, but since I do own the shield already, it wasn't worth the change!
I do recommend looking into a fitted holster. Galco, Talon, n82 etc, makes a big difference if you do carry on the person!
Thanks for the explanation as I, as a Brit - where no one has a gun, not even the cops, was going to ask!
I've always heard this, but then I went to London several times from 2010-12 and I've never seen so many MP5s in my life. So maybe the beat cops don't carry them, but some agency with quite a public presence sure does.
Without judgement to anyone on this thread, I'm a no guns guy and an ex-brit.
These may be alternatives...
Kimber Pepper Blaster
-Travels 13 feet in 1/10th of a second
-No blowback, drifting or loss of pressure
-Eyeglasses and even ski masks won't stop it
-Just point and shoot
America has so many guns, there's no turning back. If strict gun laws go into affect, guess who has them? It is really unfortunate that it has gotten to this point....just heard the statistic that there are enough registered guns in the US that just about every person regardless of age could have one!
I'm all for personal freedom, but it also comes at the high price of all the crazies having access which is why the US also has the highest rate of mass murders. Now if only single shot muskets were available (the guns around when the constitution was written)......
True, unfortunately. The US has more guns per capita, and more gun related deaths per capita, than any other developed nation.....by a factor of 3-10 times or more. Just one example; the US leads the developed world with 10.2 gun deaths per 100,000 people while the UK is at .25 per 100,000. Interestingly, the US has 88.8 guns per 100 people while the UK has 6.2. Coincidence?
It's possible, I suppose, that the US has 40 times more mentally ill people per capita than the UK and that is the sole explanation for the difference in statistics. Possible, but not likely. I don't know what a workable solution would be, and there are obviously trade-offs between personal freedom and public safety, but to deny that too-easy access to guns is a possible factor, as some do, seems illogical.
I've always heard this, but then I went to London several times from 2010-12 and I've never seen so many MP5s in my life. So maybe the beat cops don't carry them, but some agency with quite a public presence sure does.
You're right in London the number has/is increasing but unfortunately it's a result of recent (last 10 years or so) terrorist attacks - London bombings - the bus bombing, coordinated underground bombings and going all the way back to the Harrod's car bombing. However, you have to join a "special forces" division to be able to carry a fire arm and go through all sorts of psychological testing and then training to do so. The standard policeman or woman in any geographical police department does not carry a fire arm. These officers are placed in specific locations - underground stations, airports, etc they don't patrol the streets like a typical cop.
Mike, just curious where you pulled your information from? The US is just outside the top 5 on the list of mass shootings per capita, and also outside the top 10 for the list of firearm related deaths per 100,000 people. What is your definition of developed?
Apparently some of these members have always had the pleasure of living in pretty much crime free areas. Why would anyone carry a firearm????? Because I'm not gonna let some POS parolee kill me or my family for $20 bucks, that's why.
Mike, just curious where you pulled your information from? The US is just outside the top 5 on the list of mass shootings per capita, and also outside the top 10 for the list of firearm related deaths per 100,000 people. What is your definition of developed?
aero997c2s, the info was pulled from the article linked below and the study it describes which examined 27 developed countries. I also previously looked at the Wikipedia article you referenced and the numbers for the countries listed in the ABC News article are very close.
Regarding the 27 countries: To your point, it could be argued that depending on your criteria, more countries than that are "developed" and there are indeed a handful of countries worldwide that have worse gun death statistics than the US. Still, IMHO, the comparison between the US and those 27 other 1st world nations is pretty striking.
As far as the number of guns in the US - that horse is out of the barn. To make this real rather than an theoretical discussion imagine a horrific once in a lifetime event - you are stopped/cornered in your GT3 - no way to drive away - three men approach your car - open your door by using the handle or breaking the glass faster than your brain can register what is happening - pull you out of your car - At that very moment - the split second before you are hit and knocked out or shot - Do you want to protect yourself? Do you want a "tool" to stop this potentially lethal encounter?
09-01-2015, 03:49 AM
G43 fits in my door pocket
