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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the UK where debates about guns don't exist. [View all]thucythucy
(8,039 posts)and all the offended Americans on this thread too thin-skinned to accept a comment from overseas about "the American way of life" (and death)?
If you read the OP, you'll see he's addressing this to SOME Americans who don't understand that endowing almost anyone who can breathe with the right to arm themselves to the teeth makes them less safe, not more. I think he (or she?) is pretty clear on that. I think it's a point that is worth making.
You'll also see, if you scroll down the thread, that he's run right into the buzz-saw of denial that means that, even if, as you say, the majority of Americans favor a more sane gun policy, it will never happen in the current political climate, which will never change if Americans are unwilling even to discuss how other nations deal with this issue, and dismiss all outside criticism as "arrogant" and "supercilious."
I heard the same comments made about French critics of American policy in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. How DARE foreigners criticize the Holy Land! Arrogant jerks! What do they know about "freedom" and such? USA! USA!
I for one welcome the OP, and think he's "spot on"--as they say across the Pond. I hope he posts more on this, and on other topics as well.