Interesting Washington Post Opinion Piece

[Dand]

I found this op ed piece in the Washington Post.  I think it has some interesting points.  I hope the antis seriously consider some of those points. Check it out but make sure to read thru the 1st few paragraphs that may not seem interesting to get to the meat. He even suggests bringing back school rifle teams.


Why do Americans love guns? They’re part of our culture.
..................They never find a solution because all their legislation, academic studies, mathematical proofs, and proposals for waiting periods, background checks and buying limits aren’t going to do much more than they ever have. 
Both the problem and the solution lie elsewhere, in what historian Richard Hofstadter called “America as a Gun Culture.”
Nor are the pleas of the progressives asking why anyone would ever want to own a gun — thereby demonstrating their arrogance toward the people who own the hundreds of millions of guns in the United States. .............
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-love-of-guns-part-of-our-culture/2012/12/25/f301f326-4ddd-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html
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And there are links to other op ed pieces I haven't read yet.  Some likely in the normal screechy anti or indignant pro gun vein.  But this guy seems to have a fresher look than I've seen.

[SharonAnne]

Yes we have a history of 'gun culture'.  ALL of the countries of europe and asia have a history of totalitarian government. That is by dictator, king or emperor. Slavery is what they know. Freedom is something foreign to all countries except the United States of America.  Democratic or representative government is something totally new to every other country. It has been less than 100 years and in most cases less than 50 years of relative freedom for western europe. For anyone to dictate to us about ANYTHING is laughable. They have NO experience with freedom. They need to LEARN from us, not scold us from a position of ignorance.

When other countries have over 200 years of freedom and representative republic history behind them, then and only then will they have anything interesting to listen to.