wow, a revival of an old thread... there is another one, with a few more pages that might need to be revived as well... lol..

however, we do live in different times - we do not burn witches anymore, we are ok with gays, we are friendly with British... the country is the same, it did not go anywhere (Atlantis went somewhere, but we are still here)...

And the funny thing is, the leaders who choose to kill their people, don't do it with foreign asistance (at least, most of them don't), the killing (oppression) is happening by the hands of the part of the same population...

And the founding fathers had no idea what they were doing - they loved the French republic but the republic turned into "red terror" with more heads rolling than during the king's times, and resulted in Napoleon coming to power... they were clearly worried that something like may happen on our soil as the ties to the "old world" were rather significant...

We have to give them credit due - they were very educated, smart aristocrats who were fighting for the cause of a common man but even they could not escape the pitfalls of their upbringing... the elections of US president are not direct popular elections as in many countries but buffered by the "delegates", who can vote as they deem necessary, not as their constituents have instructed them to do... so, even those aristocrats who were "by the people, for the people" did not trust the uneducated masses...

and going back to the gun control, gun prolifiration - too many guns in the hands of people who do not know which end of the "thingie" the bullet comes out from... i am not for the ban... i am for proper gun education...