Originally posted by Skydancer
Is it that you simply can't bear to hear someone express a point of view other than the dominant one?
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No, actually I can't bear to read ridiculous points of view, particularly when the poster contradicts himself in the same post.
For example someone posting that "guns are only for killing" and then saying how he had a good time shooting clay targets with one.
Further, I can't bear see the Reich Minister of Propaganda's saying come true. You know, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
So, I generally respond when I see someone posting the same old... balderdash.. (is that the polite euphemism?).
A good example of this would be someone continually postulating that what works in a small country with a essentially uniform population will work just the same in a country many times larger and with a far more diverse population.
For example saying that solutions that work for an island country with a land mass of 88,788 square miles, a population of 58,789,194 will work in a country with a land mass of 3,539,224 sq miles and a population of 290,809,777. Where ONE state alone, California has a land mass of 156,000 square miles and a population of 35,484,453.
Or would you be happier if I simply agreed with everything that you and others say.
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You should feel free to voice your opinion. However, you need to understand that EVERYONE here has that option. Many Euros seem to think that once they voice THEIR opinion, everyone else should keep silent.
It doesn't work that way, as I'm sure you know.
You're free to post anything you like. You should EXPECT that some will challenge what you post and post THEIR opinion.
Personaly to me it seems that your nation has a serious homicide problem.
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I haven't seen anyone here deny that.
America is in love with guns and has one of the highest homicide rates in the developed world.
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We do have gun culture. We do have a high homicide rate.
However, the idea that using UK gun controls will change that is not a given. In fact, it's likely it would make things worse.
There are several reasons for this and all of them have been discussed enough here. Suffice it to say we have always had a violent culture and the UK has not. Perhaps those two facts have their roots in the past. After all, the droit de signeur never really existed here. Some cultures are more passive than others.
The fact that I live in a country with a relatively low murder rate, and there are few guns in the hands of citizens pleases me no end.
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As it should. You should realize, although I'm sure you don't, that that happy circumstance has more to do with the nature of your population than your gun laws. You have a historically polite society, where historically the common man was not armed and subservient to authority and you are not very ethnically diverse.
Review the crime rates/homicides in the small areas of your country that
are ethnically diverse to see the difference that makes.
Its very liberating not having to worry whether the bad guy is wielding an assault rifle or handgun. I'm happy with that.
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I find it very liberating not worrying about "bad guys" at all. I don't.
But don't expect me or others to shut up because it doesn't fit your view of things.
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Physician, heal thyself. Don't expect me or Laz to shut up because it doesn't fit
your view of things. It's that "free speech" thing that so few of you Euros seem to understand.
What is this a mutual appreciation society for people who all think the same or a bulletin board? Think about it?
Think about this. That is apparently what YOU want this to be.
I rarely if ever start these "gun" threads but I will contribute when the horse doobers start spewing from UK keyboards such as yours.
I will ALWAYS contribute. Get used to it; it's that "free speech" thing.
