First of all, many of you think you can just conveniently escape the discussion hanging on that last thread of hope of not knowing my nationality.. If you don't have answers to the issues, it's another thing. Escaping the discussion is another. As I said there's no need for the pissing contest I know there _will_ be. The first thing I will hear is the good old 'we bailed you out during WW2', then 'we gave your country foreign aid' and the list goes on. I've heard them all and they're still as dumb as they were when first stated.
Lazs: "There is no more white middle class gun crime in my country thatn yours so" Why do you keep repeating that mantra? What about black, hispanic, oriental etc. crime? You think you can conveniently just pick the group that has about normal crime rates and finish with the discussion? You know as well as I do that the burglar in your house will most likely not be white.
The fact remains I do not need a weapon to protect myself. You seem to do.
In fact, I don't know anyone who would even consider such a thing. I don't know anyone whose home would have got burglared. Only case to my knowledge was breaking and entry to a summer cottage which is empty during winter. Guns won't help there if you're away. Riots? There are no riots here.
You asked about the response time of the police, paramedics etc. They're typically about 15 minutes. I've called the police about 5 times in my lifetime, as a sidestander though as the cases were drunk driving etc. Or in one case as a result of a car crash.
As what goes with gun owning, registrated gun owning is fully possible where I live. Lazs want's to keep unregistered guns
because he has a paranoia about the government. He fears the evil socialists will seize power in the U.S. and collect his precious toys away from him.
Heck, I'm all for guns as long as they're controlled. Mentally insane people should not be allowed to buy weapons, nor do convicted criminals. So if a perp is seen with a weapon there's always legit reason to get him arrested. There has to be control over leathal weapons.
Godzilla: I'm not ashamed of my country, quite the contrary. However as my views hardly represent the general public here, I have no need to speak as a representative of my country.
You already hate all euro's after Bush tried to bully them into the illegal Iraqi offensive and failed effectively breaking the old coalition in the process. An act that was quoted as 'a historical error.' Then your media wrote a few bad articles about france and everyone's opinnion now seems to be france is a bigger baddie than NK, Iraq or even Afghanistan. It's hilarious, just a few weeks ago they were your allies, now the biggest enemy and traitors. If the US wants to play the vigilante and pass UN judgement it has to do it alone, what did you expect? Russia already responded to this and took pre-emptive strikes to its military doctrine. I want to see the judgement they'll get on the first pre-emptive strike.
A few days ago someone posted a 'horror video' about a russian aircrew being shot down in afghanistan. People expressed compassion to the russian crews. They conveniently forgot that the russians were shot by a stinger which your government provided to the afghans free of charge and trained to use it. Before 9/11 or end of cold war the same video would have raised cheers as teh evil commies got shot down by your brave mujahadeen friends.
You're being yanked by the chain so bad.
