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Originally posted by Battuss
How come every pro fun American says he needs it to protect himself yet in a country like Holland you wont hear anybody saying that except for some criminals?
Why the difference in mentality?
Let me answer it, your gun freedom is a fundamental problem, you guys need to protect yourself from other people with guns. You cant protect yourself from a gun with a knife so you need a gun as well.
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sadly we have a lot of idiotic VIOLENT criminals in our society...
look at this historically, Georgia (the state) I believe was a prison colony, we not only had a lot of people escaping religious freedoms WAAAAY back when this country first started, but in general there are or have been a TON of immigrants coming here with CRIMINAL backgrounds they're trying to avoid...
in essence, the gene pool here compared to where you are is a "bit diff" in regards to the probability of violent criminal behavior...
also, through in our cultural differences, we live in a country founded by 'terrorists' against the UK, that basically shot their way to this 'freedom' we have now...
we are a culture of violence
what other country has dropped nuclear devices on another country?
who has a higher violence rate (ok maybe Africa might have a few countries that can match us)
who has a bigger prison population?
who makes more violent movies, TV shows and games than the US?
it's culture and necessity for those that live in it...
if I were to live say in Fiji I might feel differently, not sure....I would like a rifle or shotgun to go bird hunting though, it's actually a fun past time, I'm not a 'hunter' but I love to go target shooting sometimes...
PS: If the bosnians had more weapons and freedom to own guns, maybe our military wouldn't have to have gone there and helped them protect themselves against the Serbian army ;)
ooo, so atrocities happen to people by large bodies of armed people.......
uhm, YUPPPP, even in so-called civilized euro countries.........apparently