Oh yes mister Cube, if you were to join the chat more often you'd find me rant about european issues quite often as well.
Just out here in the open I adopted the American idea of corporate identity and would never say anything bad about Europe, we're the greatest, we rule, our kindergarten kids could beat your marines and then conquer China without even using guns, man!
Europe is far from being ideal, it's just annoying when Americans try to tell us our countries would be more secure if we had a similar love-relationship to guns like they do.
In the same way it has to be annoying when I tell them that their country still is more violent and would be better if they didn't have that gun-culture.
But the difference is that I'm right and they're wrong.
For the US to ban guns now it's a bit late indeed, but maybe if you stopped embracing violence as your favourite means of "getting things done", there'd be less violence around overall.
Europeans trying to rely on the state and getting everything from the state is a myth anyway as you said yourself, not to forget that the Americans harping on that always assume that most Americans would completely rely on welfare if there were a little bit more than there is today as well.
So that effectively means most Americans would want to be more like Europeans but the good, american, hard-working folks are preventing that?
Now that would be an unfair view as well, my point is actually to vote democrat!
Because a donkey logo is more peaceful than an elephant logo.
As for our own faults and problems, well, we currently have a president who likes to threaten the press whenever they want to release an article about him that he feels uncomfortable with.
Then he promises unforeseen transparency and to answer 400 questions before taking that back and releasing nothing.
Arguably that has nothing to do with Americans loving violence and having power phantasies about guns like never before though.
In other news a man who got sentenced to a year on probation for not paying 44k€ in welfare for his employees didn't just walk out of court, he shot at the judge (and missed) and the prosecutor instead, killing the prosecutor. Happened in Bavaria. Link.
I'm not sure what that says about guns being a good thing, especially since his was illegally obtained.
As for the opinion of the german people on this, I actually read comments saying that it is understandable given how the german state harasses the small job creators with these insurance payments...
Sounds quite American, doesn't it?
How it's understandable to shoot a prosecutor doing his job over a monetary and political issue is beyond my neo-liberal euroweenie brain though. I think it's just nuts.![]()
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