Why can't I carry a gun in the UK?

Question

I don't understand! I'm an American, and in our country we are allowed to carry guns. Why not in the UK? I should be an exception to the rule. I'm an American.

Answer 1

Because most of the Bitish are fools like the first guy who answered here..
Also concerning the Gentleman further down... Yes many states allow Citizens to carry.... (where di he get his convoluted facts from)... I carried legally in Texas, Virginia and I have a permit to carry in California....
I hate whe fools answer and don't have any idea what they are talking about....

Answer 2

The fact that you require an answer to this question, marks the difference between the majority of British people and the majority of Americans.
Apart from a very small minority of complete inner-city lunatics, most British people do not feel any need whatsoever to carry a gun. As an ex-serviceman, a one time paratrooper and company sniper, I have carried a gun and I have killed, in defence of my country's interests and, more to the point, in defence of myself and my fellow-soldiers. I can remember every incident and I felt neither triumph nor satisfaction. I was doing a job - and it was a relief to stop when I came home. I do not know your age, but I suspect you to be young and to have no real knowledge of the effects of a gunshot wound. If you have any friends or relatives serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, please ask them to tell you what those effects are. Better (or worse?) still, next time you go home to the States, visit an inner-city Emergency Room in a poor part of, say, L.A. and see for yourself.
Personally, I am so glad that I live in a country whose citizens do not feel they need to carry a gun.
You have many great things in America. You have some great music-take Creedence. Listen to John Fogerty sing "Run Through The Jungle" for instance, and especially the line that goes "200 Million guns are loading, Satan cries take aim." If you don't know the meaning of that song, it is a description of the stupidity and ultimate self-defeating lunacy of the Gun Culture in your country.
On the other hand, you could always return home and join one of those crazy cults in the midwest that believes they should bring down their own government by force of arms. Or even go home, join the armed forces and go to Iraq. The current cowboy in the White House, will be happy to see you carry a gun there.
Your closing line is a real beauty - "I should be an exception to the rule - I'm an American." Well, I met many fine Americans during my time in the Service. They were fellow paras and Marines and I know the difference between them and you. Do You?

Answer 3

To be honest, I think you stirred up a lot of emotion thinking that just because you are from the good ol' US of A, you can do just about anything. You just made the rest of Americans look petty,selfish and inconsiderate to other countries' laws. Did you ever consider finding out Britain's laws about guns or did you assume that because you are an American citizen you were exempt from laws in other countries? This is something you should've thought very carefully about and did some research on before you brought the gun. I would like to know the name of the moron who let you get it past airport security here in the United States much less customs in the first place. You need to shut up, put the gun away in a SAFE place and either obey their laws and standards or as some of them have said, GET OUT!!! And by the way, here in the States, you CANNOT legally carry a concealed weapon without a permit...and getting those permits are NOT easy. So you may want to find a site full of dummies who will believe every word that falls of your tongue.

Answer 4

If you have to ask this question, you're not responsible enough to carry a pea-shooter, let alone a gun. It's the law, to stop idiots killing people on a whim. You trying to tell us that every American is allowed to carry a gun? You don't know much, do you?

Answer 5

Unlike you Americans, when a psycho burst into a school in Dunblaine, Scotland and shot a load of kids, we changed the law. How much good it actually did is another question. Maybe when you have enough Columbine High School shootings, you'll do the same.

As you yanks are SO fond of saying, if you don't like it, get out of the UK!!

Answer 6

You're not allowed to carry a gun in America unless you work for a government law enforcement agency...shut up!

You're not allowed to OWN a gun in Great Britain because the British pride themselves on being civilized. Which I've doubted in the last ten years since we've had Adolf Blair in charge, with his hand up W Bush's burger munching German ancestral backside.

AND NO I don't have that the wrong way around. Go back to Sleep America!

Answer 7

No. the reason that they do no longer usually carry weapons is that the business enterprise believed that because of the fact the police have been from the decrease stages of society, they have been not extra wholesome to hold weapons. (rather as ex-slaves in the U. S. ought to no longer very own weapons). the placement in the united kingdom has no longer replaced.

Answer 8

You must comply with the laws of any country you are visiting. England has very tough laws dealing with carrying handguns.

Answer 9

i know huh. yea im american too but Katya-Zelen is right. in the us we shouldn't be able to carry guns because people get killed here too much. and yea. follow another country's laws.

Answer 10

no if you're in the UK you need to follow the rules of the UK.Stop making us look bad over there