http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/how-i-joined-the-nra---by-accident-8554776.html

To quote Vito Corleone in the Godfather: "You can start by acting like a man!".  Oh, and I like how he loads 9mm in his 45.

some lovely quotes:

What I get is a 45 that shoots nine-millimetre bullets

then it wasnt a .45

Once I'm sorted, I'm sent to a range, strongly feeling I shouldn't have this gigantic death tool in my hands – that the correct thing to do would be to walk right out before anyone gets hurt.

true, but only because you're an idiot and afraid of guns, and that CAN get people hurt.

If I'm scared of the others, why aren't they scared of me?

because unlike you, the other people at the range understand guns, and none of them are the bloodthirsty criminals that you seem to believe any one of them might be.

I am assuming the others are competent gun-users rather than maniacs, but the law is set up to make sure no one is really allowed to check.

Good Lord, does no one in British newspapers do rudimentary fact checking? 

He laughs and tells me that there are 300 million guns in America. That's one each. That's about 299.9 million too many.

get fucked.

There are many absurdities to all this, one of which is that Johnson County is one of the safest, politest and most well-to-do suburbs in America.

all the evidence you JUST laid out in your article (ie, everyone has guns, uses guns in this county), and you just REFUSE to draw the obvious conclusion simply because you can't possibly believe its true, it's just an absurdity.

This guy is clueless.  now it isnt entirely his fault; he's spent his whole life in an environment that forced this way of thinking on him.  but still sad to see.

If I recall he kept using the word "alarming" when describing the guns and his range trip. What a little limey puss.

"What I get is a 45 that shoots nine-millimetre bullets (mostly in the wrong direction, it turns out, but that's me not the gun). It's alarmingly heavy and complicated."

To be fair, anything that looks remotely like a 1911-style handgun is a ".45" to many non-gun folks, so I suspect that's the problem.

The guy is a poster boy for limp-wristed hand-wringers about guns, though.

That's for sure.  I also think they made a gross error in starting him out with a centerfire cartridge.

"Gun" =  in too many folks' minds.  Here in America, too

Personally, I think it would be a good idea if Prince Harry, who's had some powder-burning experience, became King.  Third in line for the Kingship notwithstanding.  At least the kid's got some brass.  Which just might trickle down to his subjects.

But here I am bitchin' about a country I don't live in,

On the other hand, it would seem that Brits have no trouble bitchin' about us, so turnabout's fair play.

Terry, 230RN

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