It was recently enough that it happened within my lifetime. I think it was in the 1970s. They came to the brink of war over their claims to Cyprus. The question was not what you personally think about it, but rather how your country would react. Of course most of us are noble humanitarians who regard the whole world as our nation, but we live in countries that are full of voters like Max who don't feel that way, and are governed by rulers who generally don't give a damn how we feel anyway.
Noble humanitarians? ...LOL!! Tell me, Fraggle, what exactly has the "humanitarians" ever actually done to help anyone anywhere .....without the support and protection of people like me carrying weapons and exerting a show of power? Africa? That's a big laugh! India? I think it's worse now than every before ...if for no other reason than the number of poor and starving. So tell me, Fraggle, how this "humanitarian" effort has ever done anything on it's own that's proved to be what anyone would call a success? It's easy to talk big, talk is cheap, anyone can do it. But when it comes to actually doing anything, it takes the power of military might and the show of force. Baron Max
Maybe because everyone who disagrees with you is a gun nut whose opinion is based on the culture of fear instituted and exported by America? Ignoratio elenchi; I think. That has nothing to do with civillian gun laws within any individual country. Don't you have to have a good economy if you're going to make sure those things don't happen in your own country, or even to help others?
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I'm against banning guns..wtf, why make law abiding citizens defenseless to those who illegally obtain guns? If you're a criminal would you rob a place where people have guns or a place where people have no guns and are completely defenseless to you? Exactly. Banning guns is one of the most foolish liberal ideals I've ever heard, it assumes that everyone will obey the law and that even criminals will have no guns...ROFL It doesn't make sense, and it also doesn't work...look at DC and Chicago which have/had hand gun bans, it didn't work at all, DC only recently lifted its handgun ban, most people couldn't even ever tell that handguns were illegal there...
So now you want Americans to help feed all of the starving Indians in your beloved nation of India? Okay, we'll send in the Marines! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Baron Max
Another school shooting has just occurred in Cleveland: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/cleveland.shooting/index.html
Is this supposed to make us believe that your liberal socialist ideal of "banning guns" is favorable?
Why not? I don't understand why you think banning guns would solve the problem as explained in my previous post... Take Switzerland for instance, which has a very high gun ownership rate, it has less gun crimes then other countries like England with very strict gun laws Socialism doesn't work, it never has, it never will, making people completely defenseless to anyone who illegally obtains a gun is not the way to go
I dont think that guns should be banned as per my previous posts, I do however think that the more times a kid hauls off and kills or injures his classmates makes it more likely that we will start to see serious restrictions on gun ownership. I mean you can only see so many dead and crying highschool students before you step up and do something.
Well it might, but the personal responsibility should be placed upon the schools to make the school a safe place for all students
Just like the personal responsibility of a parent to make sure that their kids wear helmets...wait its a law now, because enough people got hurt not wearing. It will be the same for guns if this keeps up.
Yeah but its unconstitutional...the constitution is the highest law of the land, also guns being banned is a paradise for criminals, it would make their lives a lot easier
