Crazy American haters (page 2)

Tatiana

clam said:
Why on earth do you think these news items demonstrate a hatred for Americans? Personally I have nothing but great sympathy for the victims, and I'm sure the vast majority of my compatriots feel the same. Is it wrong for people in foreign countries to report and analyse these tregedies, while attempting to seek solutions which may save lives?

I was being sarcastic. I failed, I guess. Actually, I agree with these articles. I really hate it when people say, "Guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people." If a person comes up to me and wants to kill me with their fists, or bat, or a knife, I have a chance to fight back and prevent this from happening. Also, this person is not going to try to "fight" 32 people at once.

If a person is standing 20 feet away from me and wants to kill me with a Glock or a 9mm, I have absolutely NO chance. And he/she can mow down 32 people in no time. It's cowardly, and insane.

Crumpet

Tatiana - after I posted I read yours again and realised that you were being sarcastic hon! Good for you! Still some Americans do actually think that way for real so I guess our responses still stand. However I think the Media represents American's as dumber than they are a lot of the time (or maybe its just Bush?) just like the media insists Europe hates America as SixofNine's comment shows.

Dear Europeans, please stfu and hate us like Republican's have been saying you do for the past 6 years.

I'm bringing some special hate in person May 6th! Get some! LOL!

Clam

Hi Tatiana,

apologies for not spotting the sarcasm,

all the best,

the Ironic Clam

zeroday

Dear Europeans, please stfu and hate us like Republican's have been saying you do for the past 6 years.

Another mindnumb Dem that believes everything the Left feeds them. To bad the Dems require you to leave your brain at the door when you enter into their fold.

sammielee24

with the exception of Canada. I own two guns so I'm certainly not against ownership but facts are facts.

Guns aren't banned in Canada - you have to go through a police check, take a firearms course, register the gun and there are very strict rules on carrying them. The rate of homicide in the USA by gun use is 159% (I believe those were the last figures used) over and above that of Canada whereas the rate of crime overall for both is fairly equal. It should be noted that in Canada, if stats are taken the same as before, that murder is included in bodily assault but in the USA it isn't - so that would escalate the figures even more. Burglaries per capita are more in Canada than in the USA and the gun activists like to say this is because a minimum of 40 million households are armed. The gun activists cite continually in the USA, how crime in Britain is up because they don't carry firearms and how in Sweden allows guns for everyone. Big difference in Sweden - training is mandatory and so is a few years in military. Maybe the USA should go that route?

What I ask is this?

The guy who did this was a South Korean man, here on a student visa. He had some mental health issues. He was on antidepressants - drugs. He is a visitor in the USA yet he apparently bought the gun legally. A 9mm gun, with rounds of ammunition and as a visitor, with a history of mental issues and on drugs - he can just buy a gun! How so???? He didn't do this back in his own country - why? Could it be that although he thought of it, their gun laws are much stricter so that he couldn't just walk into a store and buy a weapon? All of this should make you think - if he could do it, how many more are doing this?

As I said before and I stand by this - it is beyond my comprehension how a country can provide in their consitution the right for citizens to arm themselves with a gun but they have no right to health care. Theres just something wrong with that sort of thinking - you have a right to shootsomeone but you have no right to see a doctor. The world doesn't hate America at all - they just don't get the mindset.

ninja

I would love to own a gun....but i suppose I will have to make do with my flick-hammer

SixofNine

He wasn't just a "visitor", he's been in America for years; went to high-school here, etc.

It's a good practice to assume that NOTHING you hear in the first day or two of a big event is very accurate.

sammielee24

I heard that this morning - he was born in South Korea but lives in Virginia with his parents and is a permanent resident. My apologies for adding to the inaccurate reporting that's come down on the man. While that changes the fact that he wasn't a visitor - it doesn't change the fact that he managed to buy 2 guns from 2 different sources and apparently within the legal limit of 1 gun per month purchase in Virginia. I would still be interested in knowing what kind of background check is done on a gun buyer and it still doesn't change the fact that witht he right to bear arms -

you have a right to shoot someone but you have NO right to see a doctor.

sammieswife.

hillary_step

Tatiana,

The BBC has produced a three part documentary on the historical roots of the often agressive antipathy towards America.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

Click the link 'American haters' on the right hand column. This first part of the documentary is actually very interesting, and of course the French get the blame for the whole thing....lol

HS

funkyderek

I hate crazy Americans!

On a more serious note, for those Americans who seem to think their rights derive from their Constitution and that the second amendment is sacrosanct, how does allowing a mentally disturbed teenager to purchase an automatic weapon contribute to a well-regulated militia?

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