Dunblane massacre

Since I Googled it I expect others would have. I remembered it but not the details.

The police in places like the UK and Australia are armed because despite the law abiding populace largely having been disarmed of their firearms, the criminals still have ready access to guns. Unlike the USA, the citizens of the UK and Australia don't have any fundamental constitutional right to bear arms so it was a relatively simple matter in both those countries to legislate for most private gun ownership to be illegal.

I strongly suspect that the overall number of privately owned firearms in my country remains at a large fraction of what it was before the really draconian gun laws were introduced, the only difference now is that most privately owned firearms here are illegally owned. I'm not a police officer or a statistician so this is my opinion only but I have anecdotal evidence. And as well, a number of times in the past decade I have been offered a variety of guns for purchase "under the table".

Alot of people here were pretty miffed when the really strict gun laws came in but in Australian culture there has never really been rabid pro-gun lobby, well not loudly in public anyway. For most Australians Charlton Heston's "from my cold, dead hands" speech would be considered over the top, even a bit frightening. Different cultures, different norms, different forms of expression.

Thanks Kato....

My bad...I should have elaborated... :)

You have no idea where my mind went at first when I saw "BFA"...

When I was in, the attitude among the supply pogues was, "Guess you didn't need all those blanks, pyro, chemlights, etc. We'll allot you less next year." So definitely, everything "got used."

This attitude is amazingly widespread and amazingly wasteful. I've gone out on many a training exercise in which the unused pyro, blanks, and whatnot are simply consumed at the end of the exercise so that next cycle's ration won't shrink. As a young lieutenant, I got a serious chewing of my fourth point of contact for bringing a half-dozen belts of 7.62 blanks back to the armory. I thought I was conserving resources. What I was really doing was telling the battalion S3 that my company didn't need so much; my CO was hopping mad about it.

Changing this type of thinking requires senior leadership to change their minds about how supply is run. In Twilight: 2000, every round is going to be counted when it comes to training. Simply burning up ammunition to keep the issue of ammunition the same won't be an option. I suppose, then, all it takes is a limited nuclear war for the resources to take on value.

Webstral

[QUOTE=kato13;18808]Didn't mean to suggest that Briton did not have a strong gun culture. Sorry if it came off that way.

You did not, as a gamer for a lot of years and a GM of twilight for the last 20(ish), i believe that my game gets better by talking to other gamers, in the North East of England where I live the gaming community has shrunk over the years.

I have never given much thought in my games for where the 'new' guns come from. Thankyou to all for making me think about topics like this.