mickb wrote:I notice when the subject of gunlaws come up on Aus/nz forums on the big international forums, it becomes a bit of a pising ground for americans telling us we all roll over too easily, and how if it happened to them they wouldnt stand for it. With the NZ situation, its all on again.
I agree the US is far superior in resisting gun laws They have the consitution but more importantly financial muscle and numbers to tell anti's, left wing orgs and international groups like the UN to go to hell.
But one thing the US guys dont like to mention. Their 50 states and 3000 counties have thousands of different gun restrictions that they didn't stop. Including the gun control acts of 1934 and 1938 requiring tax stamps( federal permission) to buy machine guns, silencers and short barrel rifles.etc. Not to mention they just added another 210 changes just after the sandy hook shootings. Unless I am severely mistaken, there wasn't much in the way of physical resistance to any of it .Folks in the US largely comply like the rest of us.
I'm an American. I didn't own or even hold a gun until I was in my late 20's. I bought my first handgun in the late 80's after watching the Movie "Lethal Weapon" (Yes, it was a Beretta 9mm). I bought my first so-called assault rifle in 1992 for the sole reason that my ruling government told me that soon I could not own one. I have watched the gun control movement grow and also grow more vitriolic and insane with each passing year.(coinciding with the growing insanity of the American Left in general during that same time period) I myself have grown from a casual shooter, to a competition shooter,to gun collector, to a gun rights advocate.
There are 3 factors that make the US unique and more able to resist the globalist and leftist inspired gun ban efforts. 1.Our unique gun culture, 2.Our Constitution, and 3.The NRA and other gun rights organizations. This is not to say that Australians or others are banned from owning any guns because we all know that is not true, BUT it is essentially true in SOME countries like the UK..This is where the worldwide gun ban movement is headed.
There are no more braver people than Australians and New Zealanders. This has been proven time and time again. This has nothing to do with weakness,and everything to do with the worldwide Left's ability and efforts to disarm populations in exchange for promises of peace and security, but in actuality is nothing more than about control.
Lastly, there is a propaganda effort being undertaken to try and convince people that Americans who value gun rights, and the NRA, are opposed to all gun restrictions. That is simply not true.