DeathScythe_Zessinthal said:
the brits have the whole gun thing right, dont let ANYONE have them apart from special police and millitary, it makes the country so much safer, why the fuck do civilians in america needs guns? to protect themselves against other civilians with guns that only have them in the first place cos its "the right of the people" BULLSHIT! the yanks only legalise firearms to be different from other countries just like how they drive on the wrong side of the road
? I'm pretty sure that criminals in the UK have guns too, otherwise the police wouldn't need them as well, as purely non-lethal crowd control weapons would suffice. It isn't the people who get the permits and buy the guns from reputable stores that you have to worry about, it's the ones who get guns from some guy's trunk with the serial number scratched off.
People who complain about Americans seeing themselves as the saviors of the world, yadda yadda, after WW2 should remember that America was content with staying on this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific, for the most part) before and after the first World War, and we had no reason to get involved in the European conflict when Hitler started his expansion. Britain, which was waning as a superpower at the time, turned the reins over to the US to deal with Stalin's USSR, and then Americans lived (along with the rest of the world) with the threat of being nuked (most likely FIRST or SECOND, depending on who would have been dumb enough to launch). I know lots of people were nervous with Americans dropping the bomb on Japan, and looking back on it there had to be a better way, but at the time it seemed the best option. When you're dealing with an enemy that would rather grab their children and run off a cliff than be taken prisoner, and a projected loss of thousands of soldiers (if not hundreds of thousands) just to take a series of small islands, as horrible as it sounds 100,000 people are better than 500,000 or a million.
As for the UN doing anything, they're about as useful as a medicinal leech. WTF have they done for anyone in the past decade, let alone since their inception? Did they step in at Darfur? No. Fuck the UN, a coalition of people with bricks in hand would be more effective.
I'm an American. Yes, there are some Americans that drive me up the fucking wall. Yes, there are racists, zealots, ultra-patriots, ignorant buffoons and war hawks here. And if you say there aren't the same kinds of people in your own country you're a fucking liar. People hated the Romans, the Brits, the French, the Greeks, and the Persians because they conquered and threw their weight around internationally. All of them did horrible things, and all of them did good things as well. Now, America is in top position, for however long that will last. Boo hoo, deal with it. In another few years we probably won't be, and you can ***** and moan about the people who'll be calling the shots then.
