I think you have it there. Most Americans have never lived outside a gun culture so have no idea what it is like.
Since arriving here a year ago I have continued to be amazed at how much Americans believe about the outside World that is plain wrong. Trying to reason through the memeplex of misunderstandings is, as we can see in these gun threads, essentially impossible, and when the person sticks to the standpoints they have taken, it is even more unlikely.
Even for the few willing to discover another way of seeing things, there are at least two layers misunderstanding to get through, one is of emphasis and another is the framing effect.
Hi,
Most Americans have never lived outside of a culture that practically guarantees your freedoms, also.
You mention you are new to this country. Are you new also to defending the rights of others against all those who want to take away your rights?
Have you been exposed as your job, to protect life, or liberty, or the pursuit of happiness by an Amercan or even a visitor, at the cost of your life if need be?
If you have, then some of your observations are wrong.
If you have not, then those who do protect you, are doing a good enough job, so that you do not understand yet, as it would terrify you needlessly.
Precisely, the lack of knowledge, led to what happened at 9-11. Those of us who knew were ignored.
Ignorance, by the voting public, merely means they too, will have to learn, what those of us in the field, already know.
They will learn it though, the hard way. They will learn it by experience.
The rest of who know, will just have our hearts ripped out of us, once again, as you learn.
Do you think, all people did not know that, even the handling of Yasser Araphat, was incorrect by Americans? Do you think we did not know Iran would be making Nuclear Weapons, vastly before, they had their first enrichment centrifuge?
Some of us knew. Now, many others know also.
As long as there is some equality in America with weapons, at least more of you can die with a gun in your hands, than just a gun in your opponents hands.
Come out one day, on the streets with me. Some care nothing about me, or you, but only themselves. I have the police, to merely pick up my wounded and dead body if need be. Last week, I almost signed off from an assignment, permanently, again, because someone did not like what someone else was doing.
Sure. Sure the police would get involved, and the bad guys would lay low for awhile. All I had that day was my eyes. All I could do was stare at them in contempt and their utter stupidity, if they actually attacked me then. I would be dead or worse then, as I did go there without a weapon. And, I almost could not believe their malice, as I am establishment in my town. They were so upset with me, they might have not cared. I was caught unprotected yet again.
I work with street people sometimes. I work with the homeless sometimes. I work with them where they are and how they are. Come out with me sometime and see. I will use my permit to carry concealed, if you come with me. I will multi carry also. That will be to protect you. You will be as safe as I can make you, but without giving away any evidence to them, that I am carrying.
See if after, you deal with them, professional and otherwise shoplifters, armed and otherwise robbers, if you think equal protection under the law should be had by you.
They are armed. They do carry. They can even make their own guns from plumbing supplies. Powder for ammunition is easy also. Projectiles called bullets are easy also. And, they practice and plot.
I am happy people exist, who don't know. I am not happy when they ask to become like my kind, because they don't know any better..........Yet!
LOVE,
