You never want to see this at your church (no video, just a photo)

[Gibson99]

When my dad taught me gun safety he said that a gun is a tool. It can do one thing, and that is kill. Never point a gun at or near anything you don't want to be dead.

Also, there are no warning shots. The only warning you get is me telling you that I have a gun, or "stop or I'll shoot" or something like that. The other thing he said was don't even point the gun until you're about to pull the trigger. Meaning don't stand there with your gun pointing at someone as a threat - only point it at them if you're about to kill them. That doesn't mean you have to keep it holstered - you can be ready with it in your hands, just pointing at the ground or somewhere safe. That's more than enough of a threat in my book. Body language says a lot.

 

[kamkar]

Never point a gun at or near anything you don't want to be dead

Wise words indeed, also what i have lived by since i at the age of 10 started on rifle shooting, that's probably where i heard it.
But i have been endangered a few times by poo for brains people in my circle, but when that happened i also told them that they was idiots and then i left.
One particular big idiot liked to play Russian roulette with a big ass 45 revolver, when he pulled that stunt i just said you fawking idiot and left, and when i had done that a few times he figured out that the stunt did not impress me one bit.

No matter how many weapons and nutters in the US, i would not mind that one bit if i got to visit one day, only thing i would be looking for are getting some trigger time myself in a safe environment with some nice people.
If some punk kill my wrinkly old ass, i just hope they don't send me home across the pond, better to check me for lead content and put me out for the vultures that are rebounding from lead poisoning in some places of the US.
Driving thru some places of the US i might even think on the Banjo duel from deliverance

 

[country_hick]

 

[Nigel]

But he gave them swords, not guns, and it is the guns that are the problem!

I wonder if god has modernised the archangels weapons, because you can't fight the evil guns with swords, while love and kindness can eventually be effective against some of them!

 

[kamkar]

I seem to recall the SAS having a strong feeling for the knife and using it on Germans carrying guns, should work fine as long as you have a chance to sneak up on the target.

I like god seem to favor the slow Claymore, personally i am more of a Katana guy

I have watched this program a few times and still get exited.

Japanese steel and the 8 virtues of Bushido are not alien to me.

 

[Nigel]

I seem to recall the SAS having a strong feeling for the knife and using it on Germans carrying guns, should work fine as long as you have a chance to sneak up on the target.

Not just the SAS, our main army still uses bayonets (knife mounted on rifle barrel), the enemy fights if you use guns, if you use bayonets they run!

British troops pulled off a number of bayonet charges in the brief campaign to boot Argentine forces from the Falkland Islands in 1982. Grunts from the Scots Guards and the Gurkhas chased 500 enemy troops off the summit of Mount Tumbledown in the pre-dawn darkness of June 14. The British suffered 63 casualties in the battle; 160 Argentine soldiers were either killed, wounded or captured.

In the last ten years, British troops have resorted to the bayonet to break impasses in combat both in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May, 2004, a detachment from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders surprised a force of 100 insurgents near Al Amara, Iraq with a bayonet charge. British casualties were light, but nearly 28 guerrillas were killed. And as recently as October of 2011, a British Army lance corporal named Sean Jones led a squad of soldiers from the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment in a bayonet charge against Taliban fighters in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. After being ambushed and pinned down by militants, the 25-year-old ordered his squad to advance into a hail of machine gun fire. “We had to react quickly,” Jones remarked. “I shouted ‘follow me’ and we went for it.” He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions. Even in an age of GPS-guided bombs, unmanned drones and network-centric warfare, 300-year-old technology — like the simple bayonet — can still carry the day.

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/01/17/stickin-it-to-em-the-last-of-the-great-bayonet-charges/

 

[Deleted member 37895]

I also attended Christ the Redeemer when I was in high school. We had the funeral for my father there in 2013 and on the January 11th we had the funeral for my stepfather. Pretty strange hearing the news about the shooting days after