Originally posted by beet1e
Doh! I only posted the Dubya pic because I thought it was funny. Now look how this thread has turned out.
Beetle, maybe the way the thread turned out has something to do with your American fetish, and your habbit of posting pointless, thinly veiled put-downs of Americans.
Perhapse it's your signature, which you probably put there as an additonal irritant to be shoveled down our throats.
Beet1e's Sig:
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America’s constitutional right to bear arms is an anachronism dating back to the 18th century. In modern times, it is an unmitigated disaster which has given rise to many millions of privately owned guns and an alarming homicide rate, with a tally of more than 300,000 firearms related homicides in the past 25 years. While no law can be 100% effective, Britain has no “gun culture”, and much stricter firearms controls which have contained the annual tally of gun related homicides to a double digit value - fewer than one fiftieth of the American gun-related homicide rate per 100,000 population.
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The truth:
The lack of gun ownership in the GB during WWII led to an "alarming rate" of cries to US citizens for guns to be sent to GB in order to arm an un-armed people in the face of invasion.
Americans sending their firearms to GB helped prevent "an unmitigated disaster", since Britain had "no gun culture" as well as "stricter gun laws" :