@Bigjohn Firstly, Switzerland has a nation service model where everyone is a reserve in the army, as a result they are issued with a fire arm, and trained in its use. Its a completely different model compared to the USA. Also freedom has nothing to do with gun ownership, there have been many countries throughout history…
Ummm....shows how much you know about politics, guns take away freedoms, they take away lives.. So based on your picture, you're comparing a nation such as the UK (with its strict gun laws as pointed out in my previous post) to right wing Nazi germany yeah? Who is more right wing at the moment the USA or the UK? USA is…
There is no derailment ,it's discourse. Are we not adults ? Aside from the total Godwin fail earlier the discussion has been alright. But to address that notion that you need guns to maintain freedom, that is just silly, just as an FYIi am an American and aside from growing in a ton with a ton of gun violence I have also…
media outlets such as FOX "news" that does 80% of the fear mongering and war mongering and are in bed with gun profiteers like NRA. it goes hand in hand. FOX promotes fear, and NRA promotes guns to "deal" with that fear. in reality, there isnt much to fear in this country. people here have it real good and grow up in a…
It's because it's far from simple that I prefer simply accepting a tragedy as a tragedy, as opposed to everyone under the sun trying to come up with some way to "prevent" the next one. Deciding to say, "This is a tragedy" and holding the victims in your thoughts and prayers (if you're in to that sort of thing) is not a bad…
Agreed. That's subjective. To some people, not saying I'm one of them, but when for every 10 hours you work, 6 of those are for the government, some wouldn't exactly call that freedom. A golden cage is still a cage. And you're forgetting some of the gun-loving countries right next door to you, like Switzerland (number4 in…
Hello, Polycount! It's been a long time. You never call, you don't write... I'm an American, a gun owner, and I think that it is far too easy to get a gun in America. Guns are too woven into the fabric of American culture to make an outright ban possible (nor would I want one), but there is a lot of reasonable middle…
EDIT: Missed topic, of course it as a incredible tragedy for everyone and I hope any afflicted the best, impossible to imagine such suffering from any angle. :( There has been a lot great points made regarding it's cause and effect and I don't want to discredit anyone's emotional or mental response by concluding that…