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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Lol so the success that America has had is largely based on or attributed to their great history of lax laws around gun ownership?
I’d like to attribute their success to their entrepreneurial spirit, drive for innovation, world leaders on the free markets and capitalism you speak of… not their ‘right to bare AR15’s’
If they took that away from Americans and that pissed them off where are they going to storm off to so they can hang on to those beloveded fire arms?? Almost every 1st world nation has stricter and more well defined gun laws than America so it wouldn’t leave those who felt their personal liberties had been assaulted with much options.
It’s a ridiculous argument and it’s laughable to me the lengths some go to justifying the ownership of war time weaponry among common folk. It’s insanity and the daily and hourly carnage in America is the sad fingerprint of this reality.
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I didn't say (nor do I think), that American attitudes towards gun ownership is the reason for their success. There is no causation there.
Rather I am saying that the attributes that make them successful can lead to good and bad outcomes. People think there is a simple policy decision to be made that isn't being made. Perhaps you can't adjust the outcomes without adjusting the attributes.