Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

hendrebc

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Livestock Farmer
I was shocked when someone on another thread about American gun laws posted a video of a fast food restraunt.

Most people in there were blatantly carrying handguns and automatic weapons slung over their shoulder.

Personally it would make me feel very uncomfortable,especially when in life you recognise how a portion of society really are unhinged.:eek:
Im not defending american gun laws here but....
There is no reason why sane sensible normal people shouldnt carry guns with them every day. Id guess everyone reading this thread would fit into the sensible category . I know i could walk down any street in the world carrying a gun and shooting simeone wouldnt even cross my mind. Unless one of the unhinged shot at me first... Its the 0.01% that are unhinged that are the problem. When they start taking guns off people the normal sensible law abiding people will stop carrying straught away BUT. The criminal phsychos wont ever stop carrying them they wont care what the law says. Then that leaves the law abiding people defenceless agsinst them when something bad does happen. In a country full of nutjobs with guns i can undwrstand why the law abiding americans want to keep theirs. They need to do something to stop what is happening in schools though. What i dont know but having all those kids in one place with no way of them defending themselves is just asking for trouble especially now it seems the way that all these phsycos want to do things. Trump said not long ago that 20% of teachers should have concealed weapons (or something like that) its not a good solution by any means but it might be a quick fix until they can sort it properly. Quite a few teachers have been shot trying to defend the children in their care. If one of them had a gun and was firing back it might have stopped it a lot faster than waiting for police to turn up. I know if i was looking after 30-40 if other peoples kids in one room and there was even a tiny chance that someone might turn up and shoot them id want a bloody big metal door to lock them in safe behind and/or something i could use to defend them with and proper training to use it. I dont see another option for america currently guns are too widespread and readily available to just ban outright like the uk has done.
Tin hat time
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Im not defending american gun laws here but....
There is no reason why sane sensible normal people shouldnt carry guns with them every day. Id guess everyone reading this thread would fit into the sensible category . I know i could walk down any street in the world carrying a gun and shooting simeone wouldnt even cross my mind. Unless one of the unhinged shot at me first... Its the 0.01% that are unhinged that are the problem. When they start taking guns off people the normal sensible law abiding people will stop carrying straught away BUT. The criminal phsychos wont ever stop carrying them they wont care what the law says. Then that leaves the law abiding people defenceless agsinst them when something bad does happen. In a country full of nutjobs with guns i can undwrstand why the law abiding americans want to keep theirs. They need to do something to stop what is happening in schools though. What i dont know but having all those kids in one place with no way of them defending themselves is just asking for trouble especially now it seems the way that all these phsycos want to do things. Trump said not long ago that 20% of teachers should have concealed weapons (or something like that) its not a good solution by any means but it might be a quick fix until they can sort it properly. Quite a few teachers have been shot trying to defend the children in their care. If one of them had a gun and was firing back it might have stopped it a lot faster than waiting for police to turn up. I know if i was looking after 30-40 if other peoples kids in one room and there was even a tiny chance that someone might turn up and shoot them id want a bloody big metal door to lock them in safe behind and/or something i could use to defend them with and proper training to use it. I dont see another option for america currently guns are too widespread and readily available to just ban outright like the uk has done.
Tin hat time

You are right to a point but in the USA it’s not a great situation.

I think in the UK it is as good a situation as you can practically get as I generally do not worry someone is going to burst into my kids school and slaughter them.
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Showing my ignorance I didn’t even know there were different types of kangaroo however when you think about it it’s quite likely.

Every day’s a school day.(y)

There are about 4 species called " kangaroo", but there are many more macropods including the wallabies & wallaroos . . .

Wallabies start at about 2 foot tall through to the Red Kangaroo at 2 metres . . .
Reds in particular can have very well developed physiques as per my avatar
 

CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
Without wanting to turn this into another American Gun thread, those of us in the UK or Australia will never be able to get our head round the American gun question because we don’t have a “gun culture”. Guns are simply tools or sporting apparatus to us. To Americans “gun culture” is just that, their culture and part of how they define themselves.

No amount of international indignation will change it I’m afraid. The change has to come from them, from within!
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
There are about 4 species called " kangaroo", but there are many more macropods including the wallabies & wallaroos . . .

Wallabies start at about 2 foot tall through to the Red Kangaroo at 2 metres . . .
Reds in particular can have very well developed physiques as per my avatar

So do any live around you these days as the environment is so harsh?

If they do,which type and how do they adapt to the conditions?
 

Pond digger

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
East Yorkshire
There are about 4 species called " kangaroo", but there are many more macropods including the wallabies & wallaroos . . .

Wallabies start at about 2 foot tall through to the Red Kangaroo at 2 metres . . .
Reds in particular can have very well developed physiques as per my avatar
Do any of the species interbreed?.
 
Sharing a restraunt with gun toting folks would not trouble me in the slightest, perhaps because here in NI, such occurances were well common,
ok not open carry, but certainly packing/gun-toting.
Not infrequently with "drink taken", bytimes to excess, and zero consequences or incidents.
marcus
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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