Re: 40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL

Dad wrote:
>> I really can't understand why people who don't live in America care
>> whether Americans are allowed to carry guns or not.
>>
>> Personally as a Englishman I find the American obsession with
>> handguns a little childish though as I own a shotgun and a Mk4 .303
>> Enfield rifle I can hardly be called anti-gun, but if you're not
>> American let them get on with it.
>>
>> I spend a lot of time in the US on business and am very grateful
>> when I return home to the freedom that is a largely unarmed police
>> force, but that doesn't give me the right to tell other countries
>> what to do.
>>
>> --
>> Julian
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>
> You state you feeling very well, I felt the same way when I went to
> England on business trips. When I got home it was just a more relaxed
> feeling to know I was where I could own the guns I wanted. England, a
> country where you can't defend yourself for any reason. When I went
> to England it made me very nervous to see people walking around with
> full automatic sub machine guns in the airport. That was 3 years ago
> before I retired, now we have those same people in the airports. I
> need to thank all of the pussy governments that allowed the terrorism
> to spread and proliferate until it is completely out of control. It
> was out of control when the first innocent life was taken to further
> someone else's agenda.
>
I have to agree with you - if your country took airport security as
seriously as we always have, 911 may have been avoided. Of all the govt.s
that have allowed and sponsored terrorism, the US certainly contributed the
most funds. Or, in typical American fashion, are they only terrorists if
they are against you?

> When I say "people walking around with full automatic sub machine
> guns" that is all they are, people. If you look at the "people" that
> are bombing other people that's all they are. They are people that
> think they are right way past the rights that you have as a human.
> We, the USA, are fast becoming another England like society that has
> subjects and not people to govern. Those "people walking around with
> full automatic sub machine guns" will become our leaders at some
> point and will assume they are better than you are because they can
> carry a machine gun. The machine gun may only be an icon that fits
> into their perceived crown to be your master. It is just a little
> harder to take over power in this time but someplace out of the ashes
> there will rise another Hitler type to test the human courage. Good
> luck with your shotgun and your MK4.
>
As with all paranoid Americans who believe their guns will save them you
forget one inconvenient truth - banning handguns was not forced on the
British people, it was democratically voted for by a large majority in an
open election. It is equally hilarious that you focus on a few specialist
police officers on anti-terrorist duty when every one of your police
officers are armed in order to subdue you when they and your masters choose.
The British police force is a civil and largely unarmed one, unlike your
paramilitary forces.

> It has always been a sad time when the governing bodies were making
> laws to benefit themselves and their cronies and not the majority of
> the people. Power, the drug that drives little men to do big things,
> good and bad.

Very true, but a far better description of the US where money buys you
political power than Britain where the last 5 Prime Ministers have been from
ordinary middle class families. I wonder when the US will have another
president who isn't already a multi-millionaire backed by old money?

-- 
Julian
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