All I would say is that most of the 'reasoning' shown on threads like this simply diminishes Americans in the minds of most Brits and Europeans.
If you say that you don't want to be insulting, then you insult someone......you get the point. Most Americans don't care what Europeans think of us. You guys seem to think we're a bunch of crazed gun toting psychopaths. In reality most people in the US don't own a gun and wouldn't know how to use one if it were handed to them. Our history with guns is pretty simple, we live in a huge country. It's massive. When our forefathers settled here they reasoned that the best way to defend and feed their families in the wilderness was with a gun. It's pretty simple.
The men and women in this country who care about gun rights are some of the most responsible handlers of guns in the world. Yes, every once and a while some idiot shoots himself cleaning his gun.
However, we still like to practice the skills that our forefather's used to survive and defend their families. Call it being prepared for a worst case scenario. How many of you Europeans can kill an animal from 300 yards away, field dress it, haul it out of the woods, butcher it at home, and put meat on the table? Not to mention practice the field craft in the woods necessary to find and kill that animal?
Oh but Jeeprube, I just go down to my butcher's shop and pick up a steak, get with the times man. Some of us like to be prepared for anything. That's the type of people who settled this country, kicked the British out, and became the world's dominant nation. How'd we do it? With our guns and our abilities.
Europeans like to look down on Americans because they view us as less civilized as they. We look down on Europeans because we view them as weak. We are not weak. If we were, we'd still be worried about what the Queen of England ate for breakfast.
