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So why didn't he buy a gun?


A gang of a-holes attacks you & your loved ones? I don't care if they seemed un-killable from the very first frame of this movie. If some gang of a-holes wants to pull this kind of crap with you, tell Obama to "Shut the F up", buy a 44 magnum, keep it on you at all times, & the NEXT time the gang of a-holes tries to attack you, find out for SURE if they're un-killable.
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He hardly seemed like someone that would own a gun license, and it certainly didn't look like America to me so Obama would have nothing to do with it.

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The movie is set in Scotland. It is illegal to own a pistol in the U.K. I think the only legal firearm is a non-repeating shotgun. Still, people in the U.K. don't have a tradition of owning and using firearms so they are totally unacquainted with firearms.

That said, the hero is far too realistic, representing how most young guys of Generation Z would be, pacifistic, non-assertive, and placid. Now, I don't criticize nice guys. The world would be a better place if everyone was a nice guy like our hapless hero. He had no training or experience in violent, self-defense situations. In that respect, he's more like the rest of us who would be equally panicked and clueless in a sudden, horrific, life-and-death situation like he encountered. He didn't even know how to fabricate an effective self-defense weapon. He had no training in martial arts and looked to be a non-physical guy. You can't help but feel sympathy for the poor guy. He's all alone, inexperienced, untrained, unarmed, and in the end, has only the love for his baby daughter that ultimately gave him the inner courage and strength to face and confront the horrible punk juvenile, mutant gang.

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It is illegal to own a pistol in the U.K.


Tommy said the cops never came to that neighborhood though. Seemed like sort of a lawless area. If packs of feral children can run about killing people for a few decades without any sort of police inquiry then you'd think someone would be able to buy an illegal firearm and discharge it a few times without a big fuss.

And what about the priest? He was constructing illegal explosives and he had experience in the criminal world. A bit surprising that he didn't own at least one pistol.

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They didn't really use that much in the way of explosive. They used a fuse to set alight the gas from the gas mains they broke all the way up the building. He may well have simply bought a lot of fireworks (or at least gear related to setting up a firework display). He didn't actually show any experience of 'the criminal world' asides from his ties to the hoodie-monsters in that block of flats.

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The way the priest said he "did it in the past" regarding the explosives, it seemed as if he could have been a militant activist of some cause when young. It happens from time to time that activists of peaceful and meaningful causes get carried away, for example there was an explosion at the Libyan embassy in my city just this winter - it was at night and nobody was supposed to be there, but unfortunately there were casualties.

It seemed to me that could have been the case with the priest and in that case he would know how to make explosives, however he would have no idea about other weapons, combat is rarely a good way to alert public to your cause and therefore no activist organization has use for it.

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Wrong country wakanasakai ! Don't be so american centric and don't put politics where there is none, on this side of the Atlantic we're not Cow-boys and we don't get out with guns.

And think a little about that Tommy with a gun, he will have killed a lot of innocent peoples just because he fears everyone.

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Exactly what "innocent" people are you talking about? The gang of a-holes in this movie attacked the guy & kidnapped his daughter. Exactly how much more BS would you have him put up with before he fights back?
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If I recall, a magnum only has six shots and there were about a dozen or so demon kids. You would have to buy extra ammo, but given America's poor economy, it would be hard to afford enough bullets to kill all the demon kids.

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I sometimes wonder if this is the reason why the US has the highest rate of shooting-related injuries and deaths. Do you honestly believe getting a gun is a valid response to being a victim of a crime?

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You can't just but a gun in the UK. You have to get a firearms license and even then I think you can only have a shotgun and only use it for hunting and sport. You also have to keep the gun in a locked cabinet with the keys in another room. If he had shot someone breaking into his house he would go to prison. The UK doesn't have the 'right to bear arms' law that the US does, if you shoot someone in self defense it's murder or manslaughter, if you heard someone break in and went to get the gun from the locked cabinet it counts as premeditated murder. And seeing as this was set in the UK I doubt Obama would have anything to say about it.

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