Reply #57: I've noticed the comparisons

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between Britain, Australia and the US on other forums, and I've never quite understood it.

Britain is so very different from the US geographically, politically, culturally and socially that they make such very poor comparison.

The other thing that's always puzzled me, is the claim that they need guns to protect them from the government. I was under the impression that elections were what did that in democracies. And who decides when enoughs enough? Do they have a commitee, or a union-style ballot? What if the majority of people like the way the government is working? Do they just get to blow up a few federal buildings and then go home?