(August 26, 2015 at 6:43 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(August 26, 2015 at 6:16 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: People are overlooking the primary lesson from incidents such as this.
The only people overlooking the primary lesson are people who insinuate this happened for anything other than the fact the perp had access to guns.
This shit would not, and does not, happen in the UK. It is certainly a much rarer occurrence than the US. Why's that I wonder? Must be a coincidence.
Brits are sheep who are OK with being oppressed.
Historically, Americans have short fuses when it comes to putting up with assholes and are willing to blow them away even if it costs them their own lives.
As H.L. Mencken said in 1926: "The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks."
