There are angry web sites on the Internet with headlines like "Gun Control - Hypocrisy or Stupidity?" and which talk of a "war" against gun control advocates. The argument then shifts to the rather more sophisticated political point that a well-armed citizenry is a final bulwark against military dictatorship or invasion. This is illustrated by the thought that if more Europeans had had firearms in the 1930s, the Nazis would have been stopped in their tracks.Another Brit expatriate who expects our country to adopt his miserable customs, oblivious that American guns are the only reason he doesn't tell people "Ich bin ein Englander."
Unfortunately, the argument underestimates Nazi ruthlessness, and it is hard to imagine an armed citizenry in, for instance, Holland, Poland or the Ukraine, repulsing the Wehrmacht, backed up as it was by the SS and the Luftwaffe. Snipers don't defeat a modern army and didn't prevent Nelson winning at Trafalgar.
He evidently never heard of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and can't extrapolate the effects on an invading army had such resistance manifested itself a hundred thousand times over, over every inch of ground. And as for Nelson at Trafalgar, that's a clumsy transition to a century before, but the sharphooter did get his man.
Yes, Mr. Garlinski, we do "believe in a literal reading of the American Constitution,... feel that the judiciary has become too liberal and...tend to regard the outside world, especially the United Nations Organisation, with a high degree of hostility."
As for a "war against gun control advocates," we're not the ones sending government thugs to raid, terrorize and destroy them.
And as for a "license to kill," I suggest you get your own house in order:
GOVERNMENT lawyers have told police chiefs preparing to “shoot to kill” suspected suicide bombers that they are likely to escape criminal charges even if they kill an unarmed or innocent person.There's an easy solution if you don't like our customs here, Mr. Garlinski. Go the hell home.
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Hmm. Garlinski sounds Polish. If that's true at least his ancestors fought proudly against the Wehrmacht. There were even a Polish underground fighting from inside Auschwitz! Just imagine their disgust if they could see bullsh*t like this coming from their progeny.
ReplyDelete"Unfortunately, the argument underestimates Nazi ruthlessness, and it is hard to imagine an armed citizenry in, for instance, Holland, Poland or the Ukraine, repulsing the Wehrmacht, backed up as it was by the SS and the Luftwaffe."
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis, no matter how ruthless, didn't mess with the Swiss because of the armed citizenry.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget you were our countryman.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait... You AREN'T our countryman! You're a Redcoat!
Go home!
What this IDIOT seems to forget. IS THAT IS PRECISELT WHO BEAT THE NAZI'S! ARMED PEASANTS! THEY WERE THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT FROM THE BEGINNING OF 'OPERATION BARBAROSA'!
ReplyDeletePEASANTS KICKED THE NAZI'S BEHIND. THE RED ARMY JUST OBLITERATED THEM ON RETREAT!
And of course we wouldn't want to mention the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that took the Nazis two months to crush.
ReplyDeleteThe man doesn't seem to know much, but he knows not to go back to the UK where he is designated victim.
Seems he prefers that, rather than as we have here, fighting against irrelevance when it comes to autonomy over our lives. How does one become so frightened of being hurt that he hurts himself to placate the savages?
straightarrow - "How does one become so frightened of being hurt that he hurts himself to placate the savages?"
ReplyDeleteEasy. Laziness - It is the 'Oh, protect me papa gov!' mentality.
We are screwed if this mentality continues unabated.
He also seems to forget little incident a couple hundred years ago when a few gun-owning citizens kicked one of the most feared militaries in the world back across the Atlantic.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the decendents of King George should remind him who was the colony and who was the superpower.