Steve 41oo wrote:gungasnake wrote:Steve 41oo wrote:... And that problem manifests itself regularly in American shopping malls universities schools and places of work, much more frequently than anywhere else. Sorry if that hurts.
That is certainly true. We certainly pay a price for the second amendment, nonetheless we view the price as fairly minimal and acceptable.
What we DON't have in America and what the second amendment prevents is guys like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Hideki Tojo running the country, and the cost in lives of THAT kind of **** is counted in millions and tens of millions and not in tens.
Last time that broke out in Europe, which was about sixty years ago, the British were already deep into some sort of a gun control scheme and there was an overwhelming concern that Germans might invade the place and nobody would have anything to shoot at them.
They actually had a big emergency gun drive here and asked everybody who had any sort of an extra rifle which used anything close to standard caliber ammo, particularly 30-06 or British 303 to donate them to the cause and shiploads of such were sent over on an emergency basis.
And then, after the war, the Brits went straight back to the same stupid bullshit.
I ask you: what could be worse than being too stupid to learn from your own mistakes?
Your arguments get ever more bizarre.
The NRA did collect some guns,
but we didnt want them, and they were never shipped.
No, Steve.
Its
not that thay were never shipped,
nor that Churchill did not want them.
Its
only that
you are a HISTORICAL IGNORAMOUS pretending to know
what you are talking about;
ignorant FAKE.
After WWII, many of the borrowed guns were sent back to their American owners
by honest Englishmen.
Ask your grandfather or grandmother, and
for goodness' sake,
take a course in English history.
Maybe u thought that in 1940
when Churchill proudly and bravely declared that:
" ... we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,
and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island
or a large part of it were subjugated and starving,
then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet,
would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time,
the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue
and the liberation of the old"
u thought he meant that the citizens 'd use Karate or slingshots ?
He wanted lendlease; we sent it to him, including those guns.
David
