Excellent point
I've read alot about Rwanda, DRC &c. and I've had tears streaming down my face reading- it's hard to comprehend such carnage/brutality/erosion of empathy....
And worse that the global reaction is a big "meh".
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:01,
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that said, and at the risk of having 3 likes withdrawn (I know - the sacrifices I am willing to make)and as much as the USA is a fucking ignorant basket case, I do support the second amendment.
Thats not to say I think they manage it well, and the US has gone from being the most interesting debating ground (they very nearly voted in a Socialist President in the '30s) on the planet to being the most collectively & wilfully ignorant concentration of humans in history (including Australia) in the relative blink of an eye.
That aside, enshrining a populations right to arm itself to keep its government in check (which was one of the key reasons initially) is a fine principle which I think should underpin all civilised democracies.
The right to bear arms isnt America's problem, its the fact that it being the spiritual home of capitalism has led it to render most of its population bereft, pig-ignorant, expolited & bitter.
'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed'
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 1:20,
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