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I would be careful about using Nazi Germany and the Holocaust as examples. The 1928 Weimer gun laws were designed to stop the communists and fascists fights in the streets from breaking down into another civil war and in that aspect they worked. Even though the Jews in the Warsaw uprising...

Thanks for the replies. I think I will stick with the bat for the time being. Instead of getting a halfway weapon in the UK, I'll wait till I can emigrate to somewhere I can own a gun legally.

Hiya. Just thought I'd sound people out about using a crossbow for home defence. I live in the suburbs in the UK and civilian gun ownership is a big no-no. Illegal gun ownership brings its own problems. Using this reasoning I came up with the crossbow being a big improvement over the...

I asked an ex-telecoms guy about the mobiles. The original mobiles were analogue and you just had to tune into the frequency to listen to the conversation. The digital mobiles have encryption devices but these are limited in size by law making them easy to crack for the security services...

For the sake of the argument of no firearms, then I would go for the crossbow. Gives me some distance, is silent and with a good aim guaranteed death on the other end. That said, I'm sure a bit of looting would get me upgraded and back into the world of firearms.

On TV a while back, they had the old men who were trained to be guerrillas in case the Germans invaded England. What they were taught for sentries was to come from behind, yank the head back and let the edge of the helmet break the neck. Seemed it worked with German helmets, not sure if...

Got a boot knife and a lockpick kit for Christmas. Going to get riot gloves or an ASP baton for a delayed Christmas/New Year present.

Seeing Saddam get arrested on TV got me doubting whether this is the genuine thing or another media event like Jessica Lynch or the toppling of Saddam’s statue. The troops did a house-to-house search in an area they were tipped off in. After finding nothing they then decide to throw up a...