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I've been to the UK -- home of the soccer riot -- several times, and I can assure you that it's not all tea and crumpets over there, despite the facade you all try to put on. There is just as much crime, the streets are just as dirty, the air is just as polluted and the people and culture are every bit as violent as anything you can find in the USA (and I grew up and currently live in New York City). Period. The difference is that you people are all beginning to believe your own bull**** about the sophistication and high-mindedness of your society. This of course serves to no ones advantage more than the criminal element, who, while you all walk around patting each other on the back for that utopian accomplishment of 'banning guns', the criminals gleefully bask in their newfound freedom to take whatever they need from you. You said it yourself, if a criminal with a pipe asked for your wallet, you'd gladly hand it over. To you, it's only 20 pounds, but to the criminal, it's a great way to make a living. Do that a mere 4 or 5 times a day, and he's doing alright for himself, especially compounded with the welfare he's undoubtably on. So you see, you've managed to create a wonderful new criminal class. And by the way, any society in which a large number of citizens beat each other into a bloody pulp on a regular basis over a sporting event (much less soccer) has no right to call themselves 'nonviolent'. When was the last time anyone was killed at a baseball game? Secondly if I was to be held up the aim is to not get in a fight but to survive. Not about being a pascifist, its about being smart and knowing when to fight and when not to fight. But again, you are leaving that choice -- one of your very survival -- in the hands of a criminal. If you are unable to defend yourself, and he knows that for a 100% fact, then like it or not, HE is the one calling the shots, not you. Even if you cheerfully comply with every single demand he makes, there is no guarantee that he won't kill you or your family just for the hell of it. You have removed any option for fighting back, and have adopted pasifism by default. I was held up at knive point in South Africa last year by two black youths. The main aim was to get the guy with the knive as far away from me as possible. So I let him have the camera and threw 100 rand ( $10) on the floor. He dropped the camera, which I picked up and then fled empty handed. No point having a fight. So you got mugged by two incompetant criminals. And in most situations, the best move is probably to just give the guy the lousy $10 and hope he chokes on it. BUT, your country has eliminated any means for the citizenry to defend itself against anything at all, thus swinging the doors wide open for criminals to take advantage of the population in ways far more numerous and egregious than a random petty theft. FWIW Brits have more chance of being robbed and murdered on vacation in Florida than we do in our own country. That is simply not true. On your hypothesis we should all be issued with guns on entry to the US to give us a fair chance. And also FWIW Europeans dont fear guns. As was pointed out earlier they are inanimate objects absolutely useless until a persons picks on up. The fear is about who can and who has access to guns and their attitute to using them. The gun is never the problem its the person. Well, yes, that is in fact true. However, all you have done by making guns illegal is to ensure that the only people who don't have them are the law-abiding citizens. Criminals who are going to commit a crime anyway simply disregard the gun laws as well. As for the Americans war on terrorism, they were pretty absent when we were fighting the Irish terrorists in fact many of them were funding Irish terrorist organisations. Not exactly a consistent policy. That is not exactly the same thing, although I would probably say that if the level of Irish terrorism was, today, at the same level it was in the 80's, the American attitude towards it would be far, far different, as 9/11 has changed everything. Great post Thomas.................... |
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