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Originally Posted by bulldogg" Its too late for Europe and Europeans to own weapons. Like I said they went down that path already and gave it up, not just physically but mentally as well. Europeans by and large I have talked with at length are resigned to letting "the government handle it" in many many aspects of their lives, protection included. There is a vast cultural rift between the US and Europe. |
You know I was talking about this with my buddy this morning during a walk on the beach with his German Shepard (which is a weapon by himself). We both came to agree that, though like you say the rift between US and Europe is still vast, the idea of self-defense is one of the several aspects of the comeback of the right in Italy. Since 1994 Italy, which had had virtually no conservative parties since the 20's, is witnessing a huge and strong backlash and the idea of a smaller State, of a State that is there to serve the citizens and can't ask the more than what is just is making itself known and popular. More and more as the years pass and elections keep confirming it. Before it would have simply been a taboo talking about owning guns for self-defense. Today it is no more. Even on a philosophical point of view. Yes, true, we're still very far from accepting it as part of our shared Constitutional heritage, but you see, a country's direction is never given once and for all. Peoples change their mind. Do not forget that the left was virtually unrivalled in the US as late as the 70's, when Goldwater and the Reagan started to make the difference. Many things are changing.