Originally Posted by iluvbelize
The basic human right to defend oneself and one's family is God given. The "American Gun Culture" aside, to have any government proclaim that firearms and perhaps other weapons are illegal to most of society is a set up for tyranny. Anytime. Anywhere.


I can't agree with this. There are other ways of protecting yourself rather than just reaching for the nearest weapon. The civilised way is to band together and use mass numbers to defeat the bad guys. A working civil law system with "enforcers" (police), in fact. I think the continuing American usage of and reliance on guns is merely a sign of an immature culture. The British system is not perfect, nor indeed is any democratic country that abhors personal force (Norway for example) but it is still far superior to a culture of force and violence.