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originally posted by: mclarenmp4
a reply to: sparky31
It's a different culture altogether from ours, we thankfully realised a while back that if we didn't stop people from having guns we were going to wipe ourselves out.
It's a weird thing because really we live in a violent culture but we are raised from a young age that if you can handle yourself, you'll be alright.
So fighting is part of our culture and we look down on people that pull out a weapon in a fight, that's a good way to get a beating as it means you are scared to face up without a tool. Real men fight with fists not weapons, sorry America.
This same culture won't tolerate an uneven fight, so quite often random members of the public will jump in to balance it out.
So yeah we can't compare the cultures, if we had guns we would most likely have a much higher homicide rate.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: Agit8dChop
BULL, we are acting JIUST like we have to, your judgement of us all NOT withstanding.
I speak for a great deal of Americans here:BUTT OUT.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: Agit8dChop
BULL, we are acting JIUST like we have to, your judgement of us all NOT withstanding.
I speak for a great deal of Americans here:BUTT OUT.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
Your opinion.
Sounds emotional.
originally posted by: Agit8dChop
a reply to: murphy22
Being so patriotic and understanding of your constitution you know what an amendment is right?
You understand that the constitution an be updated and ''amended'' , right?
You understand when the 2nd amendment was written was a time when single shot musket type weapon were the ''guns'' of the time.
With all this in mind we the world understand what your saying that your entitled to your guns.
What the world is completely fed up with is the b@t sh1t nonsense you scream about when the government wants to update the 2nd amendment to make it fit the times. When single shot muskets aren't the norm and high powered assault rifles are being used to slaughter innocent people nearly every month.
No one is taking away your guns for crying out loud.. you can keep your guns and have your home/personal protection. But act like an adult and understand your obsession with high powered assault rifles isn't what the 2nd amendment was referring to, it was written for and your reasoning is completely foreign to reality.. and the sane minded!
I know we '' the world '' will never convince you lot to act like adults.. but do us a favour and quite the bullplop exuses and rhetoric about why you need them and how the government is trying to take them away.. you just look like a bunch of hicks!
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: markosity1973
I suppose caring might change that, I guess we'll never KNOW.
I LOVE taking advice from people who were or are SUBJECTS of someone.
If you think these nut cases will change us you are mistaken. THEY do well will YOUR people however.
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: Moonshinne
I should go and get a gun now due to drunk mexican people, who seem to be wandering about, though I have not seen them.
And, also relate that to Australia.
Got it.
originally posted by: mclarenmp4
a reply to: yuppa
Spot on, don't disagree. Wasn't talking about my manliness, sorry that I gave you that impression.
I was talking about the culture I live in, as I said it's pretty violent at times.
I've broken up more fights than I've been involved in, so I'm not some idiot that likes fighting.
originally posted by: Moonshinne
I am personally a concealed carry and a open carry depending on which state I am in at the time (Texas and Arizona.) I will gladly admit I have pulled my gun on someone before. Sitting in my truck in AZ while my sister went into a gas station for water I observed 4 mexicans pulling up and getting out of their SUV. All of them had open containers full of booze and walked right in and circled up around her. You can bet your ass I was in there faster than you could say oh $HIT! When they turned on me my gun was out. They were all drunk.