Quote from: Eva on Feb 19, 2014, 07:30:56 PM
I'll bet that most US citizens have no idea what that 2nd amendment was actually intended to counter, by the people who originally implemented it. Referencing it, has simply become the knee-jerk reaction when someone is asked why they have or like guns. Sometimes they can't bother to make up some rational argument why they need an AK47, so it's just 'I have the right to, that's why.'
Lets not generalise. I personally think its great that the Americans have a constitution (kinda wish in terms of privacy they would stick to it ) , i wish we had one in Australia in some cases, although not the second amendment because i find it redundant in many ways.
Quote from: Eva on Feb 19, 2014, 07:30:56 PM
QuoteThe "progressive intelligent gun laws" I'm talking about are in effect in "Australia" which also didn't see conflict in WW2 (Darwin doesn't count)....
40,000 Australians died on the battlefield in WW2, almost as high a casualty number as the number of British soldiers dead in defeating Germany & Japan. Australia was under threat from a Japanese invasion from the North. 'Didn't see conflict in WW2'?
That Statement was in regards to the insinuation that the US didn't really bear the brunt of the war thats why they are "Militaristic" my reference to Aus is that we were as distant from ww2 as the Americans "418,500 dead", yet there is not correlation between gun laws or gun culture.