@2stonehands
I won't quote your since it's too long, but you have to realize America isn't unique in it's laws or constitution or violent past or what have you.
Germany is somewhat of a bad example since the Allies MADE them change their laws, but they had institutionalized racism, murder and other immoral laws. Trust me, people BELIEVED in that ####. Millions willingly died to defend those laws, Laws written into the constitution. Once the allies changed the laws, the German public changed their views.
However, many countries have gone through peaceful scenarios of changing their culture and attitudes. Obviously Australia and their buy back program. What about capital punishment? Canada used to execute people (very legally mind you, meaning it was the states' "right" to execute criminals) then one day someone decided you know what, this is pretty barbaric. We need to change this. So they did.
It blows my mind that people in the USA can't look around to their neighbors around the world and realize that an armed society belongs in the past, and an armed society is not a safer society. So many times people are killed with their own guns.
And by the way, the federal government by all accounts has already overstepped their bounds and become tyrannical. How come you haven't marched onto the capitol yet with your buddies and defended your rights? Isn't that precisely what the 2nd amd is for? Are you too afraid of the US military? I would be. Maybe your old man and his buddies should have done it while they still had the chance of overthrowing the government before the feds became so huge and the military so powerful.
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