Guess what, liberals? We will NEVER know enough about guns to be "qualified" to write gun laws!

[CTyankee]

185. Interesting that you bring up booze. I have seen the comparison with laws against drunk

driving compared to laws curbing guns. The fact is that those laws worked. And they weren't "prohibition," which nobody was talking about, but driving drunk. Since enforcement of those laws the cultural norm has changed, where once it was very different. So cultures can be successfully challenged and changed. So we can successfully change behavior that we at one time just accepted.

My point about Europe is that after centuries of violence on that continent there has been a desire to break themselves of the habit of war after so many centuries, with the formation of the European Union. It won't last unless the people there want it to so badly they are willing to put aside and stifle their worst tendencies for a greater good. The habit of war had to change. I recall how dismal I found Europe when I traveled there with my mother in the late 50s compared with how it looks today. I hope they keep their peace, but it looks like they realize what is as stake and want change. They were offered somewhere to go and it resulted in prosperity. As my parents always said "Nothing succeeds like success," a wise nostrum...