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MN: A foreign view: our fascination with guns
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Down under in the South Pacific lies an English-speaking island nation called New Zealand. It’s much like America, with some tropics, snow-capped mountains, rolling green hills speckled with sheep, waterfalls, rain forests, and thousands of miles of sandy beaches. With three major cities, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, it has urban and rural problems like America—but how they view criminal justice is vastly different.
Their country was settled by Europeans in the 1840’s. Their history wasn’t a “shoot it out” conquest of their natives, the Maori; instead they settled into a reasonable, peaceful co-existence that remains to this day.
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"If America’s gun owners claim they are responsible, then they should prove their responsibility by accepting gun registration laws like New Zealand.”
Have you ever read anything MORE ridiculous in your LIFE?
Translation: If Americans want to prove that they are responsible enough to be free, they should give up their freedom to prove that they are responsible.
It's appropriate that they call themselves Kiwis, because that concept is the most bird-brained thing I've ever heard. |
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