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Originally Posted by Herkdriver
Americans like guns.
John Wayne
Rambo
Scarface
It symbolizes power.
It is what it is.
It's in our psyche as a culture.
You blame Charlton Heston on something that has been ingrained in us since the early 1700's when settlers had flintlocks.
The guy or gal with the gun has the power over Nature and over others.
It's ingrained in our DNA.
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You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. -
Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
kinda makes ya wonder tho.. do we really need a federal govt spending $500 Billion a year on weapons (more than all the nations of the world combined) when our nearest competitor is spending 1/20th of that? Taking several billion of that and reinvesting it into nationbuilding the states would do more for our national security imo.
