"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote:

I understand what you are saying, but it's pointless to explain it to most
U.S. citizens. The right to "keep and bear arms" was written into our very
constitution when our nation was founded. Which would be fine, except they
authors quite frankly put enough additional and vaugely-worded verbage into
the second ammendment that their true intent will never be fully understood.
As a result, there are fewer hot-button issues for Americans than this one.
It's bigger and far more passionate than Pauline Hanson ever even tried to
be.

Yes, I understand how Americans feel about this (many of them anyway)
and I don't really expect to convince them. I guess trying to push the
view that everyone needs guns onto other countries is one of my hot
buttons, and I couldn't resist responding :-)