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Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Come to Australia. Gun control works here. You could learn a lot from us, especially given your gun homicide rate per head of population is eight times ours.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Almost all the murders in the US are minority gangs in cities. Most of the country has extremely low crime rates.
If you had the same demographics, you would have the same problem.
I know exactly what I’m talking about.
I’ve seen first hand the consequences of high-powered firearms on the human body.
I carried an SLR in Vietnam in 1970 – it was designed to kill.
Any country that allows free access to such weapons is in the thrall of lunatics, in this case the NRA.
I have seen first hand what automobiles can do to the human body. having been hit by them twice on my bicycle. They kill a million people a year around the world.
In the US you are more likely to be killed by a human fist than by a rifle. Your mindless paranoia requires medication.
We have seen on first hand what box cutters can do in a gun-free cockpit.
Better yet, come to the states, and answer this simple question … Where would you rather find yourself?
(A) In a strict gun-control gun-banning urban center ( NYC, Chicago, DC, LA, … ) whose gun laws you stupidly copied.
(B) The other 99% rural country with little or no gun control.
Don’t bullshit, what’s your choice?
There’s no way I would visit a country where individuals can buy automatic weapons and shoot children with them. Such a country is an example of institutionalised brutality and chaos.
You are an idiot. There are twice as many murders using baseball bats as rifles in the US.
Please document when an individual purchased an AUTOMATIC weapon and shot children in the US.
“You could learn a lot from us, especially given your gun homicide rate per head of population is eight times ours.”
Unless one has some peculiar irrational fear of “gun homicides” when compared to any other sort of homicide, then the statistic is meaningless. The only reasonable comparison is total homicides (from any cause) and be sure to include democide.
Maybe an analogy would help. Suppose that Australia became concerned about traffic fatalities and in response your government outlawed yellow automobiles and trucks. In only a year or two, you would be able to point out that “the United States has a yellow car traffic fatality EIGHT times higher than Australia!” It would be true. And meaningless.
Even so, there is a very much more fundamental reason why Americans wish to stay armed. Why? Because we are free men and have a natural right to defend ourselves, our family and our property. That is how we differ from you. We are citizens. You are subjects. We are not willing to be treated like Aussies or Englishmen.
Two thumbs up!
I’ve seen how you “free men” function when exposed to the challenges of jungle warfare. Based on my observations in 1970, you lacked initiative, had poor fire discipline, and your espirit de corps and leadership were abysmal. My infantry platoon went within a few metres of being wiped out by American mobile artillery when they fired on our NDP in Phouc Tuy in March 1970.
The reason?
The gun crews were smoking pot at the time.
Given your current attitude towards gun control, nothing has changed in 40 years.
We frequently referred to your military as a shower of sh**.
One Australian was worth ten Yanks in that environment.
You are an ass. Your “observations” probably amounted to no more than 1% of the US troops in Viet Nam, and yet you are ready to lambaste them all based on the actions of a few.
You are sure that the call for fire was the fault of the Artillery? Are you sure that it wasn’t your own troops who made a mistake? Or perhaps the mistake was intentional. I know I’d have an easy time misplacing a few rounds with you in the vicinity.
Got a citation for your “friendly fire” incident? Australia only lost a battalion worth of troops while in viet nam.
” My infantry platoon went within a few metres of being wiped out”.
You are a liar or your platoon leader/platoon sergeant are idiots. No platoon sized unit should ever be compact enough to be wiped out by a single round while in the field. Which is it?
I doubt that the majority of rational Americans believe that a statistic that shows a correlation between the prevalence of fireams in a community, and the death rate from firearm suicides is meaningless.
Those who do are quite obviously up that river in Egypt (de Nile).
Guns cause suicides? Especially high powered rifles? What feature of the firearm causes suicides? I’ve been around hundreds of firearms and have never felt a suicidal tendency. I’ve also seen hundreds of people around hundreds of firearms and have never seen one of them commit suicide.
Where did I say that our platoon was concentrated enough for one round to wipe out my platoon?That’s an incorrect assumption on your part.
Unlike the Americans, we kept distance man to man, avoided tracks and communicated using hand signals.
The reason our casualties were proportionally lower than the Americans was exactly that, together with superior jungle tactics, a far better grasp of counter insurgency warfare, and better discipline.
As for “misplacing a few rounds” – I am never surprised when an individual who worships firearms and runs out of ideas uses threats as a substitute for debate.
It’s pretty clear that on your side of the Pacific, reason and intelligence has no place in the debate.
It’s a culture that we will keep out of our country.
You are completely FOS. So it was 3 rounds that were a few meters from wiping you out? Go find somebody else to lie to.
The effective kill radius for US artillery rounds depend on caliber and ranged from 30m (105 mm) to 80m (204mm), so being within a few meters of one round is quite exciting. Three rounds fired simultaneously cover a larger area. Accuracy of impact depends on accuracy of knowing the gun position and the target location. You also have to correctly identify the target. If anyone thinks it is easy, take a compass and a map and go to a large open area where you can see clearly for 3-5km and accurately locate yourself and a target at 4 km, to within 50 meters. Once you get that down, try it in a jungle environment. The reason he was in a supposed friendly fire situation had lots of explanations other than all artillerymen were pot heads.
In the land of the blind one eye is king.