RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 26, 2015 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 7:16 pm by Napoléon.)
(August 26, 2015 at 7:11 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Nap, I'll assume from that you live in the UK. You're profile is of no help as as I have no idea what "Beyond the Wall" means. Assuming you are from the UK, I can understand your befuddlement with the seeming fixation the U.S. has with firearms. We are as flummoxed by the fact that a major 21st century democratic society actually has a queen. It's a cultural thing and those things can run pretty deep.
The U.S. is NOT going to become a gun-free society anytime soon. Don't bother going there because it's not going to happen. It's about as realistic as you guys getting rid of the silly royals and your pansy soccer team and start playing REAL football.
Pissed yet? Good. Now you know how the gun lovers here feel. That's how these cultural things work. It's like religion. It's emotional. As I said up-post, I think the American infatuation with guns is even more emotionally entrenched than it is with Christianity.
The difference is that I can acknowledge how utterly unnecessary and backward the royals are, and I'm all for getting rid of them.
A lot of Americans have a problem addressing the same with their beloved guns however.
You're right it is a cultural thing, but it's still fundamentally different. One's an estabilished ruling society of people that have ruled over the country for hundreds of years. The other is an inanimate object with the sole intention of shooting things.
All in all, not a fair comparison, and another deflection from the fucking problem.
