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Interesting post. Does it have anything to do with guns?
I was merely pointing out that what people from other countries perceive as a "right" does not necessarily translate into a "right" in the United States. Gun ownership is a RIGHT in this country. I really don't care to discuss health care or mandatory vacation in this thread - it's not the appropriate place. I was merely pointing out a few anecdotal examples of things that people falsely perpetuate as "rights" in this country, simply because other countries do it that way.
If you wish to discuss Universal Health Care or mandatory vacations as they relate to the U.S. Constitution, I'm sure you'd find plenty of takers in threads dedicated to the topics.
You are absolutely right, i drifted away...
Guns are a right in this country, i know that. Still, i am against everyone arming themselves heavily.
My thoughts are that this provokes a certain feeling of insecurity, as well
as as giving the ability to everyone, EVEN wrongdoers arming themselves easily.
I do not like guns as I am pacifist in nature, but have shot and used weapons.
I am NOT saying I wouldn't shoot at a violent offender entering my house,
but I don't defend this "right" as much as you do.
If guns are given to anyone, i feel that this should be regulated.
Well, CNI I see you've run over here and started another thread. Didn't like the way the poll was going in the original thread? You ask your inane questions here seeking something different. I will not lower myself to answer your questions. My right to self defense is a given and my right to keep and bear arms is granted to me by the Constitution. I do not have to answer to you or anyone else as long as I break no laws. You,Sir, lost in the original thread and you lose here. I'm done. Have a good life and I really hope you never are confronted by a determined criminal. You'll lose again in a very final way.
[quote=Tricky D;3089261]Originally Posted by small arms LoL I wonder what would happen if the red and blue states in the US would seperate into their own red and blue nation.
Who would then be 'the cowboys' and who would then be 'the Indians'?
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Here is the thing, the democrats and the republicans, the liberal the convservative might argue about our belifs, but we are still united under one thought. We are American. When something as tragic as 9/11 hits us, we stand together, when an enemy nation sinks most of our pacifc fleet, we stand together. And what the rest of the world has learned, when we stand together, nothing can defeat us. Thomas Jefferson said in one of his letters that America will not fall by the outside, it will come apart from within.
Originally Posted by Tin Knocker I find it perfectly logical to explain the American government's macro politics or international politics by its national politics.
America follows an utopian ideal, which opposes everyone who doesn't have the same utopian model. So the former American blue states and red states will probably combat each other until 1 is completely wiped out.
Utopian idealism is old politics and it doesn't work ( especially when the rest of the world doesn't have the same utopian ideal as America).
a socialist ideal, or communist or facist ideal trys to run on a utopian idea, and has been proven time and time again that it DOES NOT WORK. The American form of government is the first one of its kind. The people rule, not the government. We have not seen one fail yet, and I think with letting the people decide their own destiny, you wont.
I took these photos of the B-25 "Executive Sweet" at the Camarillo Airport in southern California. It's a privately owned aircraft, and is quite capable of dropping bombs... The guns are replicas, though, and are incapable of firing. I don't know if this was by choice or by law, however.
we have many old warbirds in colorado that are still capable of using the weapons they have on board.
Originally Posted by SunvixenThe thing is that no one asked you to be the police of the world. You Americans are the only ones who view socialism as a threat to your 'free' economy, while we Europeans are aware that socialism and communism are 2 different things. Communism is to socialism what fascism is to corporatism.
It is not my fault that you view criticism as bashing.
Indeed, but this is because we do not tell anyone to live like us, or force them to live like us.
We Dutch start small; so far we have peace between Judaism, Muslim, Christianity, atheists, gays, heterosexuals etc in our own country.
Of course we still have a few extremists in Holland, but generally we have got it together as a society; no drive-by shootings, no abortionclinic bombing, no killing sprees in our schools etc.
If I remember reading this right, you are having an immigration problem with muslums flooding acrost your boarders like the flood of Noah was starting.
When another country gets into trouble, who they run too? Yep - the United States
When the useless un needs help with controlling a "situation", who they look too first and for a majority of help? Yep, you guessed it, the United States.
Get educated
the u.n. also has asked us to increase our funding for fighitng a.i.d.s. in africa. We are now spending almot 4 times as much as our closest contributer for africa in funding. no one is even close to the numbers of money we spend there, but where is the other governments help in fighting this?
I have... and i MUST say... RICHEST US state, poorest town. As much as 40% of youngsters live in poverty...
Perhaps someone from insurance makes 1M $ a year... not far away from him, people are food insecure.
Kids have a "great" game... It's called "dance and dodge bullets"
This isn't "a good system".
If there was a check if someone was a lunatic, before giving him a bazooka as "basic right", there would be less problems.
nothing is holding them in that state, they are free to move into a state where they have better opportunities. That is why many people are now leaving Taxichusits.
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LoL I wonder what would happen if the red and blue states in the US would seperate into their own red and blue nation. 
especially when the rest of the world doesn't have the same utopian ideal as America).
We Dutch start small; so far we have peace between Judaism, Muslim, Christianity, atheists, gays, heterosexuals etc in our own country.