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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe
Your personal views/ideas of we Americans as joining others and passively "not afraid of their own government," fortunately don't work here, in the *Sates. 
We wouldn't be states, or *Sates as you call them, were we not armed to fight the oppression of the British.
Just for the record; they, the (British soldiers) fired upon us first. Fortunately, we fought them off and formed our own Country.
I'm glad we in the states, were armed.  |
You don't know Canadian history. We had our own little revolt back in the 1830's. Local armed men and some British soldiers put it down. Most of the supporters fled to the US where they picked up some followers and then they came back and tried it again. That attempt failed as well but it did bring about more self government in Ontario and Quebec.
If America wasn't born out of revolution, war, and conquest, it wouldn't be so paranoid, war mongering, or as backwards as it is today. If anything, your country would be a lot further ahead right now if your constitution was written during peace time. It brings nothing more to the table than a bunch of worn out ideas that cause nothing but friction between those who worship every word and those who see it for what it is but know that your nation needs to move on.
Besides, for all those who think they need to arm thmselves against their own government, how do you plan on sorting out those couple thousand nuclear war heads? Or, all of those fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers; high tech hardware that couldn't have been imagined in 1776.
And just to correct the record, no one knows who fired first.