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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Also what is up with this collective schizophrenia of the American public? This frankly insane distrust of "the government" and the same type of sick obsession with the apocalypse (end of days, peak oil, etc. etc. etc.) is a just a bewildering immaturity and psychosis that is easily wedged by the powerful. Any type of moderately accessible and logical policy debate is almost instantly derailed by real life trolls boiling down to these collective lapses is any type of reason, maturity and thoughtfulness by raising the old "big government" straw man and playing off many American's almost sick desire for some type of apocalyptic ending. Yes yes, we know that you all ran from the monarchy and slaughtered one another whole scale in the civil war... I guess they just can't move on from that collective history.
It also helps answer the question of:
How is it that the country with the highest GDP per capita in the world is also somehow populated by what seems to be the most superstitious and irrational people in the western world?
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In case you have been living in a cave for the last 10 years, the American government is not serving the American people and they are beginning to wake up to this. This is what is bringing the crazies out of the closet. There is unrest and it is only going to get worse in the next few years.
From unjust, pointless wars, terror attacks, police state policies, extreme debt, unemployment, and bailing out banks and large corporations you can see how people are becoming paranoid.
Banning guns would make for a bit less violence today and tomorrow, maybe save a few lives here and there, but what if a Stalin or a Chairman Mao came to power in your nation? What then? The people would be completely vulnerable to tyranny. History shows that governments have caused more death with guns then citizens ever could, and this is why total citizen gun bans are short-sighted.