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In reply to the discussion: Tom Tomorrow reposted this today - in response to the gun-worshippers who are howling today [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Jessy169
You might be right about much of it being a part of the american mentality - but the funny part is that many who have emigrated to the US, long after the wild west was won for the white man - and long after it was a reason behind a well armed militia, still hold the grand idea about having as much weapons as human possible -and not just an handgun or a hunting rifle, but anything under the sun, up to small cannons.. And that is something I have always found weird, and tragicomic for the most part, tragic because it kill so many - comical because they try to be as much an american as they who have being living in the US for generations.. They kind of "overplay" the fact that they are americans... And the gun slunging will west cowboy of the old ages is maybe a part of it all...
And the few I know, who is living in america are not dumb, uneducated arrogant idiots, who also believe gun to be a right, as the right to breathe air, they are smart, well educated who should look true the fog of the extreme right propaganda machine easy as few..
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