(January 10, 2013 at 9:09 pm)A Theist Wrote: I have a gun in my house for home defense....you say that you have no want for one, that's fine for you....but what business is it of someone who lives in the uk and elsewhere in europe, that myself or any other U.S. citizen chooses to own a gun and use it for home defense or target practice?
My reason, is not that you are shooting each other, but it is that this love of weaponry is destroying you. I say this not because I hate America, but because I like you.
Look at you own posts, it is as though the only way to stop what you see as wrong is with force and the more force the better, if this was only about an individual attitude it would be of little consequence, but that idea of direct confrontation being the only policy seems now to colour your entire culture. As an outsider what I see is a country that has become more and more enraptured by its own strength.
We can argue about whether America in the past was right to do this or that, but about the politics of it, as a nation she usually thought she was right because she was spreading some good. Now the drive it seems to me, is not the spreading of good, but about power, the power to be totally protected, and to do that you have the weaponry to take whatever you want from who ever you want and are increasingly doing so. That does not look like the action of a friend, but the action of a Tyrant.
A love of weaponry to solve problems, seems becoming the core of your culture from the individual to the whole society and government. You seem addicted to the gun with ideas like I can stop crime as long as my gun is bigger than the criminal's. Even though we are suffering an economic downturn, your government still has to have and plan for a military that can fight two, not one, but two major wars simultaneously. That is not just designed to be on a par with a power like China but that could attack and defeat China on her own ground.
And all I am hearing is America saying I want I want I want.
You are addicted to the gun.