Supreme Court ruled today on the D.C. gun ban

[kimjongil]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

On behalf of my fellow Americans...FUCK YOU !

[GroobySteven]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

On behalf of my fellow Americans...FUCK YOU !

Particularly their sense of humour and their inability to criticize themselves - as it would be .... unpatriotic.

Thank fully more and more Americans I know, are able to get past that and have a laugh at the ridiculousness of their situation, instead of crying.

[hondarobot]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

[GroobySteven]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

Not America's money. Individuals pay a company for a service. The American people's money, is very sadly, being taken by their own country against their will.

[hondarobot]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

Not America's money. Individuals pay a company for a service. The American people's money, is very sadly, being taken by their own country against their will.

Whatever. Put me on your payroll so I can get rich and impress Vicki Richter. That's all I'm really concerned about.

[arepa01]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

:lol:

Many porn companies, in fact, bring money from world-wide consumers into America if they use CCBill. Grooby should use a European-based company. Dollar is going shit now. Nobody in America seems to appreciate the money brought in by porn.

[GroobySteven]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

Not America's money. Individuals pay a company for a service. The American people's money, is very sadly, being taken by their own country against their will.

Whatever. Put me on your payroll so I can get rich and impress Vicki Richter. That's all I'm really concerned about.

Money doesn't impress her, mate! Only humour and class ....

[GroobySteven]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

Many porn companies, in fact, bring money from world-wide consumers into America if they use CCBill. Grooby should use a European-based company. Dollar is going shit now. Nobody in America seems to appreciate the money brought in by porn.

Too late it's all in dollars

It's hurt our Brazilian and Asian side of the business as we have to pay out more (watch out for many sites going down - some have already) but within the USA as we pay photographers/models in US it doesn't affect us so much. Some of our employees in Europe have seen their salaries (dollar based) cut by 30% ish.

If you've got money in USD you'd better sit tight and wait for it to get better ... Obama!

[hondarobot]

Ahhh - excellent. I love watching the continuing decline of America and how it provides amusement to the rest of the developed world.

Like a car crash in slow motion ...

But you still take the money.

Not America's money. Individuals pay a company for a service. The American people's money, is very sadly, being taken by their own country against their will.

Whatever. Put me on your payroll so I can get rich and impress Vicki Richter. That's all I'm really concerned about.

Money doesn't impress her, mate! Only humour and class ....

I'll keep working on that.

[cockgobbler]

No, no, no. In the U.K., while it is true handgun related DEATHS have decreased since the ban, all incidents of handgun related CRIME - shootings, robbery's, home invasions, rape ect have actually INCREASED approximately 300%.

This statement is not born out by the statistics.
Criminal offenses with a firearm-1996/97-13,874
Criminal offenses with a firearm-2005/06-21,521, of which 3,275 involved imitation firearms and 10,437 involved air weapons.
By my math 21,521-13,712=7809, a decrease of 56%.

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-v...ime/gun-crime/

In Jamaica, in 2006 according to Amnesty International, there was over 1600 murders. More than 1300 of them were committed by someone using a handgun.

That's not what Amnesty said.
Homicide rates in Jamaica remained high, although numbers decreased in 2006. A total of 1,355 murders were committed during the year according to official figures, a decrease since 2005 of more than 20 per cent.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/ame...jamaica#report

People can make statistics back up almost any point of view, but only if the data is factual to begin with.

First off you are only comparing the stats from 96/97 and 06/07. What about all those years in between? The ban took affect in 1997. Look here and pay note to the charts and graphs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6960431.stm

Types of firearms used in crime 2006/07 - handgun 43%. My point was handgun bans do not work. Britian banned them, yet they are still used in 43% of crime involving firearms.

Also look here:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2317307.ece

In terms of Jamaica, I mis-typed. It should have been 2005, not 2006. In 2005, 1627 (some articles have it as high as 1660) murders were committed in Jamaica, although I cannot find the exact article that said over 1300 were by guns. I also mis-spoke. Jamaica has a TOTAL firearms ban, not just a ban on handguns. However there is an article here:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...RICAN_GUNS.asp
which just says most involved a firearm.

P.S. - I don't know about the U.K., but in Canada if you use a replica firearm (which are banned) or an air gun to commit a crime, you will be charged as if you used a real firearm. I would assume the U.K. is the same since THEY INCLUDED replica and pellet guns as FIREARMS in their stats.