.... Republican Senate gun negotiator walks out of talks In a supposedly First World country where more kids die from guns than cars, what these NRA supporting Republicans who want to protect the 'Right to bear arms' in the Constitution seem to ignore, is the fact that, when it was drafted much of what is now the US was a wildernesst and a hostile environment where much of it was lawless. The weapons themselves were single shot pistols and muskets. Well you gun-toting muppets! Unlike your attitudes times has moved on , weapons have evolved, and now, virtually anyone can walk into a shop and buy weapons, ordnance and munitions that would have enabled those who signed off the constitution to singlehandedly wipe out an entire company of soldiers. There is some validity to saying that the 'genie is out of the bottle' and the 'bad guys 'will always have guns with so many in circulation, so the 'good guys' need protection but and they therefore need to uphold the constitution. But measures like background checks, removing high capacity magazines, automatic assault weapons from general sales. An average householder does not need to lean a large assault weapon propped against the wall next to the bed in case of a night time intruder. A hand gun should be a sufficient deterrent for anyone. Concealed weapons in public also seems hypocritical. If legal why do people need to hide them? Apparently you can even buy flash bang grenades in some states( not apparently as dangerous as military stun grenades but, still, why would any civilian need them? Mental!!
I'd rather live in New Lodge than New York TBH. That country is ****** up. Their foreign policy is no better. Was glad Biden beat Trump, but even that was a case of power vs democracy, how little that exists in the USA. No better here, but thank God we don't have the guns.
For all the United States offers the world, which, is a great deal of wonderful things, the education system, healthcare system and the need to maintain and glorify the second amendment leaves the country and unfortunately their people, light-years behind the rest of the civilised world. The United States is a very young country and its attitudes on important issues are very infantile in comparison to older civilised States.
I agree America DOES offer lots of wonderful things but not sure their education system and certainly NOT their health system which is unaffordable for a sizeable proportion of the population are good examples. The Universities like Yale and Harvard and the College system may be good but vast numbers of people leave the mainstream education system very poorly educated and lack even basic knowledge and understanding of the wider World. The American strength of self reliance (anything like state aid is viewed by many as the same as Communism!) is also their achilles heel and their greatest weakness IMO.
He's saying the healthcare system and education is poor. "the education system, healthcare system and the need to maintain and glorify the second amendment leaves the country and unfortunately their people, light-years behind the rest of the civilised world."
Yep misread and missed the 'and' in the sentence linking healthcare and education to lagging behind civilised societies rather than examples of good things. So much for my UK education,
We all misread things. I reckon the sign of a good education is admitting our mistakes and reacting to them with good grace. As you just did.
Sorry, I was between locker room and works vehicle whilst replying, glad the point was cleared up by other posters.
