The reason, originally, for the 3rd amendment to the constitution was because the original United States did not have a standing army. As a result they needed to be able to call to arms, at short notice, enough armed personnel to repel any attack, as it were. They were rebels, who had rejected rule from the UK and as such, despite declaring their independence, were still under threat.

I too am not particularly interested in guns, however guns do play a part in Sherlock from Moriarty seemingly identifying the gun Sherlock carries in TGG, John's use of the gun to shoot the cabbie in ASiP, the snipers in TRF and Moriarty's suicide etc. what threw this into my field of vision, as it were, originally was Moriarty's
'identification' of the gun before he could see it in TGG.

Whilst I may not agree with the principle of everyone's right to carry arms, we have very strict gun laws here, I respect the right of citizens of another country to think differently about it; although I would hope that this might change in future. In the UK, as I said, we have strict gun laws but that does not prevent random shootings, massacres, gangland shootings and guns being used for robbery etc. It is not just a case of having strict gun laws because not everyone respects the law anyway. Knowing about guns per se, not even knowing how to use one, will necessarily cause a problem. Guns don't kill, people do.

kazza474 wrote:

Well while I admit our own country's past has had ridiculous laws such as that, we have as a nation move forward & rectified past indiscretions. If you see this an an attack on anyone's culture,  I would say yes it is against the gun culture. But it is not an attack on any particular country.
That said, if the shoe fits, wear it.

I am a citizen of the Planet Terra and as such all people are equal, all people are worth something.
Guns kill, that is their purpose.
That purpose brings about the ending of lives of my people.
They are unnecessary for most to own.

I agree..and I fully support gun control in the U.S.

As an example of how Sherlock has no concept of gun safety, he shoots the wall in the flat, and at the end of TGG, he scratches the back of his head, with a loaded gun, with his finger on the trigger.

It's Johns gun - in the tunnel chasing the Golem, john mumbles about wishing he had his..., sherlock then hands him his gun.

The shooting the wall does, indeed, come directly from canon where VC is shot by Holmes into the living room wall.

I think this sums it up best.

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