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CTyankee

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24. I was just curious. AND, they are more curious about why we put up with guns in our midst and

Reply to dware (Reply #23)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 10:48 AM

Dec 2019

a health care system that doesn't work. How would you explain that to someone in the Netherlands for instance (they are no bullshit people; nice, but blunt).

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New Zealanders hand in 50,000 guns after assault weapon ban [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2019 OP

New Zealanders must not love their Second Amendment as much as us 'muricans groundloop Dec 2019 #1

Outside of thoughts & prayers JonLP24 Dec 2019 #8

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"Why do New Zealanders hate freedom?" Aristus Dec 2019 #2

I wonder what our NZ ambassador Centerfold Scottie Brown is saying Submariner Dec 2019 #3

I've seen estimates of 300,000-600,000 semi-autos in New Zealand NickB79 Dec 2019 #4

Nor do we know what was actually turned in. oldsoftie Dec 2019 #5

cash discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2019 #9

I guess the owners of the banned guns not turned in are now criminals. XRubicon Dec 2019 #20

Well, they got 50k guns out of the hands of the people probably least likely to cause any trouble hughee99 Dec 2019 #6

Probably safer than the US JonLP24 Dec 2019 #7

The US is NOT the highest rate of gun homicide. Not even close; we're 28th. oldsoftie Dec 2019 #10

I would prefer to live in a country with a lower rate of gun deaths, thank you. CTyankee Dec 2019 #12

Well I imagine those living in the more dangerous ones think the same. oldsoftie Dec 2019 #16

I'm pretty well traveled and have asked folks in other countries (European) a couple of things CTyankee Dec 2019 #19

Oh, I'm sure I know! oldsoftie Dec 2019 #21

Quite personally, dware Dec 2019 #23

I was just curious. AND, they are more curious about why we put up with guns in our midst and CTyankee Dec 2019 #24

Ok. I got it. dware Dec 2019 #25

I am too, which is why I bring up the fact that we are so far behind our friends in Europe and lots CTyankee Dec 2019 #26

All good points, dware Dec 2019 #28

I'm an American and would prefer a European style universal health care JonLP24 Dec 2019 #30

I'm an American also, dware Dec 2019 #33

I think its unfair to compare the US with poorer third world countries LiberalLovinLug Dec 2019 #14

But that points out that many poorer countries also have lower rates. oldsoftie Dec 2019 #17

Where one lives has a lot to do with the gun violence rate. Kaleva Dec 2019 #18

I said developed countries JonLP24 Dec 2019 #29

It is another country, so all that is relevant here is how much safer hughee99 Dec 2019 #11

They have a legal basis for removing them from the people likely to cause trouble in the future. meadowlander Dec 2019 #13

I don't think they've really accomplished much until hughee99 Dec 2019 #22

well they'll all be sorry... Locrian Dec 2019 #15

Lives have just been saved aeromanKC Dec 2019 #27

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Guns are stolen aeromanKC Dec 2019 #34

Just think: if we'd had safe and sane gun laws sooner most of them ... marble falls Dec 2019 #35