We do remember the silent majority.....all those who sit home in barracks while the war is being fought. The Canadians sent over the whole navy at least....what was it two ships? Except for the SAS who are involved in the shooting part of the war.....and a token number of Marines walking escorted around Kabul....our British friends pretty much sat this one out too. But that is okay there fellers....we have this attitude of getting involved it seems...we did it in the First World War, again in the Second World World, and it seems we will continue to do so.
I wonder if comes from the fact that our society believes in defending our own home against intruders whereas in the UK, the burglar gets a pass unless you can prove deadly actions against the occupants of the house and then you better not hurt the burglar or you find yourself in nick for "grievous bodily harm"!
I am a Vietnam Vet...did two tours there...both voluntarily...got shot there too and evacced home as a result....yes I own several guns....but do not "love" them. Matter of fact, all but two handguns are in a vault two hundred miles from me for safe keeping and I do not even have the combination.
Come to my house at any time of the day or night and ask me why I keep them....just knock politely and wait to be invited in! I catch you digging through the family silver service or attempting to harm my family and you will abruptly discover the dangers involved for burglars in my neighborhood.
These are percussion signalling devices....they make very loud noises and shortly thereafter the police show up to cart some garbage out of my parlor. .
The mention of Vietnam wasn't meant to have anything to do with this issue beyond try to rub an American's nose in a defeat.
You really do not understand the Vietnam thing if you resort to such comments.
We only have to look at the a large black marble wall with over 58,000 names on it to remind us of the folly of fighting a war in a half-assed manner. But then almost every town and village I visited in the UK has a great pillar of some kind with name upon name lost to some war of occupation or battle to retain a colony and all in vain it appears. Seems the occupied are now the occupiers. I understand what that feels like, all I have to do today is look at Atlanta and I see what 250,000 Confederate soldiers died trying to prevent.
You can make your shrill comments till the cows arrive...but the Founding Fathers who formulated the structure of our government and meant that our people would remain free, wrote into the very heart of our framing documents, the guarantee that we would be able to remain armed. That was to guard against an abusive government as well as burglars. For you fellers in the UK...the government the Founding Fathers were referring to....is your government.....specifically and without question. We overthrew the yoke of an oppressive government like how many other colonies of yours. Reckon there is a message here somewhere?
www.guncite.com is a very good website for presentation of arguments about the gun ownership issue in the USA. Read the information and make up your own mind as to which side of the issue is correct. Lord knows there has been plenty of hyperbole on both sides.