Mass Shooting at DK premiere in CO!

[Prospero]

Stavros - I am well aware that McVeigh didn't use guns. That was not the point of comparison i was making.

[Prospero]

SFTB... a crazy and spurious line of argument. What do the british empire's misdeeds - which are not defensible - have to do with this discussion?

[GroobySteven]

No I just lived there and dated Sylvia's friend at the time.

Then you should know better.

[GroobySteven]

I get the national pride thing, Olympics this week and all. But seriously, we could go a couple more centuries and still not reach the body count the British Empire racked up during it's colonial period.

Absolutely. The Spanish would be even worse. It's a good that most countries have moved on.

[SammiValentine]

I get the national pride thing, Olympics this week and all. But seriously, we could go a couple more centuries and still not reach the body count the British Empire racked up during it's colonial period.

sorry but you guys win the instant kill rack up, by a country mile, and then some... A-bombs anyone ?!

[Prospero]

Let's play the atrocity count... Anyone want to openwith King Leopold of the Belgians and the Congo. How about Calley in May Lai? I'll offer Genghis Khan? The Americans during the savage putting down of the Phillipines in the late 19th century? (An estimated one million killed by the US as it put down an independence rising) How about the Hutsis and the Tutsis? The Crusades.. with rivers of blood in Jerusalem? The virtual destruction of the native American people as the white man spread west? I could go on.......

[SammiValentine]

How about the ICF having a proper nawty tear up with the chelsea boys ??

[SFTB]

sorry but you guys win the instant kill rack up, by a country mile, and then some... A-bombs anyone ?!

Sammi, we could tit for tat all day, I'd bring up the Bengal famines, you'd mention the American Indians. Not interested, the pious Brit attitude about guns is a little tired. You kept them out of civilians hands so you didnt have to crush any rebellions.

[Prospero]

u are right Sammi...

[Prospero]

I guess the virtual genocide of a continent doesn't count then SFTB?