Posted on 10/15/2007 8:03:21 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Despite the spiralling rise in the daily number of shootings in the US, its arms culture has a firmer grip than ever, reports Paul Harris in New York.
Shirley Katz is not afraid to fight for her rights. Last week the schoolteacher, 44, went to court in her home town of Medford, Oregon, to protest at her working conditions. Specifically she is outraged she cannot carry a handgun into class. 'I know it is my right to carry that gun,' she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
(Trying to control my language)
Just another stinking condescending superior Brit carrying on their historical contempt for us `bloody rebels’.
The U.K. is overrun with surveillance cameras, Muslims, and thought police. Perfectly lovely place in which to live.
Farewell, perfidious Albion. We Yanks don’t give a blue damn what you helpless disarmed Limies think. Enjoy your slavery.
An armed man is a citizen...an unarmed man is a subject.
And yet the limes have the highest violent crime rate of the industrialized nations.....
Go figure.
Ah, the English. Never reluctant to tell others how to live. It’s curious that we don’t see similar articles by US writers weighing in on the shortcomings of British culture.
It must feel great to live in the UK where the rights of scum to kill you always outweighs your rights to defend yourself.
You did very well controlling your language. In fact I think it was dead on. With a bull’s eye.
At the risk of injecting a little critical thinking into the issue, I could not help but notice that the list of 'shooting sprees' printed at the end all occurred in places and times where guns are not allowed. No mention of the guns and their possessors causing trouble where they are highly concentrated, like gun shows, target ranges, shooting matched or police departments.
What a hoplophobic moron.
Not to mention violent crime! The statistics are alarming not to mention the fact that you are more likely to go to jail defending yourself than if commit a violent act especially if the criminal is part of a "protected" group. It is not coincidence that this parallels communist rise of power in England. Just like here they control the media and education only worse.
I guess you missed the 312 postings today of the article on British National Health Service dentistry (or lack thereof).
Go pull a tooth...
I love guns. Guns freed my country from British oppression.
“Go pull a tooth”
Heh, heh!
If that story surfaced here, can you imagine the outcry from the HillaryCare crowd?
;^)
The frontier society, they say, was populated by gun-wielding settlers who used weapons to feed their families and ward off hostile bandits and Indians. America was thus born with a gun in its hand. Unfortunately much of this history is simply myth. The vast majority of settlers were farmers, not fighters. The task of killing Indians was left to the military and - most effectively - European diseases. Guns in colonial times were much rarer than often thought, not least because they were so expensive that few settlers could afford them. Indeed one study of early gun homicides showed that a musket was as likely to be used as club to beat someone to death as actually fired.
That appears to be pure Bellesilesian revisionism. Since Mr. Bellesiles has been shown to be a hoaxster of the first water, citing his works doesn't seem to be an intellectually honest activity (of course, Mr. Harris doesn't actually make a single clear reference to sources in this ridiculous article, so it's only my assumption that he is using Bellesiles.)
For what it is worth, the frontier began on the East Coast. Indian wars were fought from the Carolinas to New England in the colonial period. Perhaps names such as the Yemassee don't mean much to a modern day Brit, but 300 years ago, the Yemassee War was bloody reality to settlers in the Carolinas. By that point in 1715, the Indians themselves were often armed with firearms.
"I guess you missed the 312 postings today of the article on British National Health Service dentistry (or lack thereof)."
....or, for that matter, the many other threads in the U.K. topic section of this forum, in which American commentators and Freepers daily and copiously convey their views on British domestic affairs: often with understanding and insight, but all to often, I'm sorry to say, with ignorance and arrogance. By contrast, and as far as I've been able to observe, it's unusual for British Freepers to comment on U.S. domestic matters.
Good observation, although it's more a penchant of the political left, regardless of nationality. Look to our own shores for plenty of thinkers in like kind, as well as everywhere else.
This article is just more typical whining from the beleaguered sheep, who cringer before the reality of the wolf and the necessity for the sheepdog.
Thnx for the ping
I love the way he throws out statistics and numbers--with no reference to sources.
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