This is not only a verifiably true, older tale (it was featured in the supporting production material on an LOTR extended DVD), if memory serves it was the Two Towers' DVD. So, apparently, that the the episodic feature the story is about.

2nd amendment

Handguns are banned in the UK. If you're caught with one, you go to prison for up to 10 years.

From The Guardian (UK newspaper):-

"10.58 people are killed each year per 100,000 population in the USA compared with 0.69 per 100,000 in the UK. Suicides comprise 62 per cent of UK gun deaths."

I guess nobody has the extended DVD of Two Towers... or at least they didn't watch all of the extra stuff. There is a part (I can't remember exactly which section) where the guy who almost got mugged describes how he was full out sprinting to get away from his attackers. Pretty funny stuff.

How many self inflicted baseball bat deaths do we have versus the UK per year... uh.... wait you don't have baseball... .um I bet you have way more deaths by cricket bats. Isn't that a stickey wicket.

Not the done thing, old chap. We have large heavy rolling pins to perform that particular function.

Anything else just isn't.....oh wait, can't use that metaphor......

Actually, how much they could have done with it depends on the format those sequences were in. The Mac is so simple that anyone who could dock the iPod could have discovered those files and, if they were quicktime compatible, played them, copied them, and distributed them.

Now, if they were in some editing program's native video format, the person plugging the iPod into their system might not be able to do anything with them and just delete the files.

While it is true the USA has more gun deaths per thousand than the UK (most are from familiars as opposed to strangers..so pick your friends very carefully), it is ALSO TRUE that the average citizen of UK is several times more lilely to be the victim of a violent crime than the average USA citizen....

As quoted from a January 2003 BBC article:"...But despite, or because, of this, violent crime in America has been plummeting for 10 consecutive years, even as British violence has been rising. By 1995 English rates of violent crime were already far higher than America's for every major violent crime except murder and rape." For more see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2656875.stm

The very simple fact is that as lawful carry is limited, criminal activity increases. Why this fact is so impossible for the anti-gun crowd to accept is unknown.

What is obviously needed is more armed average citizens that also have better understanding of the proper use and responsibilities of guns.

WE have mandatory sex education in spite if objections, but can't get mandatory gun safety courses in spite of solid evidence it is needed. We may only thank the "knee-jerk" anti-gunner for this Catch-22.

Go figure!

L.

Its Americans... (Sorry cheap shot... opps at it again!)

No honest.. some of my best friends are Americans... (oh dear better quit while i'm behind...)

NOTE: This comment is intended for those endowed with a sense of humour (note spelling). If you do not have this essential life skill, seek professional help - after all, isn't that your national pastime...?

Otherwise use at own risk. Have a nice day.

...goes out the window in the heat of the moment. That is exactly why guns should only be used by the military and law-enforcement, who have proper training in how to control themselves.

Thats an old story! On the DVD The two Towers the Extended Version, there is the exact same story told in one of the supplements.