Stupid Yanks
 

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...284452,00.html

Does their arrogance know no bounds?

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Nope, their arrogance can be quite boundless at times ;)

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It's not just arrogance......it's also ignorance and knuckle dragging stupidity :dozey:

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Knuckle dragging? Must be the weight of the guns in their hands pulling their arms down ;) America refuses to tighten it's gun control as it sees the right to bear arms as perfectly logical and normal, obviously it's nothing to do with the ammount of money that the gun lobbyists push at politicians or the ammount of money that the gun trade makes the government in taxes and backhanders.. I mean gifts ;)

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The Americans think the answer to everything is firepower. This is not a view I agree with.

Anyway, since when has the American gun lobby been sensible or tactful? They were giving interviews in Colombine the day after those students went mad.

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Turkey doesn't need a knee-jerk obsessive gun control policies like we have. After all that won't reduce gun crime. Gun crime has gone up year after year since Dunblane, and so has knife crime.

I feel sorry for the parents, my heart really goes out to them, especially with the callous comments they have recieved. I don't have a child and noone has killed a member of my my family *touches wood*, so I can't pretend to have that level of emotion, but I am pretty sure if one of my family members was run over, I wouldn't try and ban cars.

The stats speak for themselves. The areas in the US with looser control policies have less gun crime than stricters states. Canada has proportionally more guns than the US, but with much few gun crime and deaths. Guns don't kill people, stupid people kill people. i'd rather deal with the problem of stupid people than guns.

Banning things never has, and never will work. If people can import drugs which smell, you don't think people can import a lump of metal that doesn't? Banning something brings it under the control of criminals and escalates the problem. People wonder about gun control and Columbine. Most of the people wonder about gun control and how it would have affect Columbine. It wouldn't. More people were killed by explosives than shot, and explosives most definately are illegal. Didn't stop the kids did it?

Shooting fans aren't bulletproof, and neither are our familes. We don't want to give psychos guns anymore than you guys do, but these crushingly obsessive policies on guns don't work. If you ban something, all you do is oppress the law abiding people and make it so only the criminals have guns.

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And that in a nutshell is the ultimate problem, it's not the guns that cause the deaths, it's the idiots pulling the triggers and until you deal with that side of the issue you will never reduce gun related crime/ deaths etc

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One day America will learn, and then we will have to pick up the pieces.

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We are not in the position to 'pick up the pieces' America (effectivly) won WW2, They pput a man in space and they are extremely talented and powerful. Also we have enough problems of our own before we start telling america how to run theirs.

This america is dumb stuff in annoying me now. Labeling a whole country as stupid is stupid. It like the US calling us NAZI's because of Prince Harry

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Erm....they didn't.

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Agreed, they helped a little. But they did not win the war.

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D-Day

American Troops: 73,000
British Troops: 61,715

They were roughly equal and one operation, although this one was big, does not show the whole war. But not giving the americans credit for what they did is stupid. Would we have won with over 50% troops less?

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They didn't. They helped us, but bear in mind we had held the Germans back for years before the Americans commited any sizeable forces. The ONLY problem we had was lack of equipment (weaponry, ammunition etc). America provided that equipment.

Actually, if I remember my school history correctly, the Americans kidnapped the scientists who developed the V2 rocket. It's these scientists (who were German, I think) who enabled the Americans to put men in space. Didn't the Russians get there first anyway?
No, America is not dumb. They (as a country) are arrogant, which is why people get wound up by them.

As I have said in the past, Americans individually are amongst the nicest people I have met.

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List of casualties during WW2

Country Casualties
Russia 20 000 000
China 10 000 000 to 15 000 000
Germany & Japan 6 500 000 inc. 1 000 000 German civilians
Bengal 1 500 000 (mostly indirect in 1943)
Yugoslavia 1 300 000
Britain + colonials 620 000
Italy 500 000
France 500 000
Hungary 350 000 approx.
Poland 350 000 approx.
Romania 350 000 approx.
United States 300 000

Source

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They wernt as in it as we were. They were relevently far but they helped a great deal. I think America had a big part to play in the war