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Posted: 9/27/2016 9:47:27 PM EDT

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My experience: Germans.

Posted: 9/27/2016 9:48:10 PM EDT

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Irish are the worst. They'll tell you how great it is in Ireland, yet they live in the U.S.

Posted: 9/27/2016 9:50:52 PM EDT

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I make a point of ignoring the opinions of foreign devils. Quoting Dr. Who here, so I'm cosmopolitan, and therefore my opinions have gravitas.

Posted: 9/27/2016 9:56:43 PM EDT

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Brits in general seem to be the douchiest in regards to telling others how they should live.

When one gets lippy I just tell them I dont expect a subject to understand how a citizen thinks. Makes them batshit.

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:01:40 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/27/2016 10:08:52 PM EDT

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brits

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:15:53 PM EDT

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Europeans by far.

A lot of them are really, really bothered that we have firearms. They'll take the time to comment on American news stories about it.

Smoking in America still kills 16x the people that firearm homicides and suicides do. It's not the death toll that bothers them, as articles about cancer awareness never get them riled up about banning smoking.

There's something about our having firearms that just really, really bothers English, German, French and the like.

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:17:40 PM EDT

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Europeans by far.

A lot of them are really, really bothered that we have firearms. They'll take the time to comment on American news stories about it.

Smoking in America still kills 16x the people that firearm homicides and suicides do. It's not the death toll that bothers them, as articles about cancer awareness never get them riled up about banning smoking.

There's something about our having firearms that just really, really bothers English, German, French and the like.

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Well, you know, there's the part of Europe whose ass America kicked and the part whose ass America saved. Neither part seems super stoked about it.

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:18:51 PM EDT

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I met a German gentlemen a few months back who was visiting the states on holiday. He was telling my about the immigration problems in Germany. He was horrified by whats happening over there.

He told me that unlike back home, he feels very safe in the states. He liked the idea that where ever he was, there was a good chance that a armed citizen was near by.

He asked me if I was carrying, I dipped my head and said, 'of course'. He gave me a real serious look and said, 'what ever you do, NEVER give up your guns'. I told him not to worry about that. I started to quote the tree of liberty and he finished it.

That is a German that gets it!

I think more and more people over there are going to understand the right to bear arms sooner than later. But by that time, it will be too late.

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:28:23 PM EDT

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Yeah, it was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reply.

It's funny though, when I think safe place to live, Australia is not anywhere near the top of the list.

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You mean to tell me there are people who actually listen to the opinions of foreigners?

There sure are, thanks to social media. People read how "safe" Australia is in discussions about guns, so they being uninformed, hinks that no guns is good. They then vote, and tell tbeir friends how no guns is safer. It's a chain reaction. All based on false facts, that are taken as gospel, since the source lives in Rooland.

Yeah, it was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reply.

It's funny though, when I think safe place to live, Australia is not anywhere near the top of the list.

Is it bad that I think that too, but not because of bad People.

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:45:06 PM EDT

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Pierce Morgan

Posted: 9/27/2016 10:53:17 PM EDT

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I always find it hilarious how some Euros online think they deserve "a say" (voting rights) in American elections "because it effects them too".

Tough shit Euros

Posted: 9/27/2016 11:14:03 PM EDT

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I always find it hilarious how some Euros online think they deserve "a say" (voting rights) in American elections "because it effects them too".

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Right. Because having their say in their matters over there worked out so well for them.

Posted: 9/27/2016 11:15:10 PM EDT

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Brits, by far.

Posted: 9/27/2016 11:19:25 PM EDT

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UK still mad we fucked them up 200 years ago.
They want us disarmed so they can try to recapture the colonies.

Posted: 9/27/2016 11:21:46 PM EDT

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Foreign politicians.
Never heard much from the commoners myself.

Posted: 9/27/2016 11:23:03 PM EDT

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UK still mad we fucked them up 200 years ago.

They want us disarmed so they can try to recapture the colonies.

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Misery loves company.

The gutless, ball-less subjects of the various places that rolled over are driven to lunacy by the fact that we are still armed and can protect ourselves here.

I think deep down many of them know disarmament is a disaster...they just want us to have to suffer the same way they are.

Posted: 9/28/2016 12:33:45 AM EDT

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I would say the British. They seem to weigh in on American affairs, generally, more than anybody else. They never got over America becoming independent.

Posted: 9/28/2016 2:15:09 AM EDT

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The UN gets my vote...ohh and FTUN.

Posted: 9/28/2016 2:25:16 AM EDT

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That POS John Oliver, and it's not even close. Fuck that guy.

Posted: 9/28/2016 2:26:18 AM EDT

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All of them. Even had Russians questioning it on Instagram, which surprised me.

Who cares.

Posted: 9/28/2016 2:27:41 AM EDT

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Western Europeans have an opinion about everything and think their socialist totalitarian police states overrun with violent third world rapists and murderers are the epitome of human civilization.

Posted: 9/28/2016 2:28:59 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/28/2016 5:48:25 AM EDT

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The most state-worshiping, state-reliant, and tightly packed peasants. Would have to go with UK. Even got the monarch for the full servile experience.

Posted: 9/28/2016 5:52:54 AM EDT

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People listen?

Posted: 9/28/2016 5:56:40 AM EDT

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Easily.
Poor, dumb sheep.

Posted: 9/28/2016 5:59:33 AM EDT

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Where I have worked (where I am now and where I was previously) we get a lot of English students who come over for intern opportunities (part of their college education). Pretty much every one of them wants to go shooting, as they say getting access to guns in England is so difficult. Does your heart good to know the desire is there, just the state stands in the way. I am sure they hear that the US is the wild west, with shootouts every 87 minutes or so. But showing them that is not so, plants a seed.

Posted: 9/28/2016 9:53:00 PM EDT

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I met a German gentlemen a few months back who was visiting the states on holiday. He was telling my about the immigration problems in Germany. He was horrified by whats happening over there.

He told me that unlike back home, he feels very safe in the states. He liked the idea that where ever he was, there was a good chance that a armed citizen was near by.

He asked me if I was carrying, I dipped my head and said, 'of course'. He gave me a real serious look and said, 'what ever you do, NEVER give up your guns'. I told him not to worry about that. I started to quote the tree of liberty and he finished it.

That is a German that gets it!

I think more and more people over there are going to understand the right to bear arms sooner than later. But by that time, it will be too late.

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I knew an old German guy who had grown up during Nazi rule and had an FFL.
He used to order guns for people and charge only his price plus $7 to do the 4473. He said that he felt that Americans should be encouraged to buy all the guns they could, and he was happy to help.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:15:07 PM EDT

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There are a lot like her.

I've given up now, I used to try and educate them but it's pointless. There are different groups in the uk though city based liberals mainly in the south and more country based elsewhere. You'd be surprised at how many grew up with shotguns etc in the house. You'd also be surprised at how many legally own firearms and it's getting more popular obviously nothing on the scale you guys have, different culture and all that.

But yeah Britain has got to be near the top, plenty of assholes here

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Britain, according to a classmate from the UK. Not all Brits are like her so I won't make generalizations, but she knows everything and knows the solution to all problems in the United States is to subjugate the people, take away their guns and implement some form of socialism.

There are a lot like her.

I've given up now, I used to try and educate them but it's pointless. There are different groups in the uk though city based liberals mainly in the south and more country based elsewhere. You'd be surprised at how many grew up with shotguns etc in the house. You'd also be surprised at how many legally own firearms and it's getting more popular obviously nothing on the scale you guys have, different culture and all that.

But yeah Britain has got to be near the top, plenty of assholes here

Don't give up.

She was heartbroken over Brexit, not because it happened but because she was convinced exiting the EU wasn't possible. I was joyous over her lamentations. I made sure she knew I was happy her side lost. She hasn't spoken to me in the months since.

When I did that, let her know I thought Brexit was great, she called me a Yank buffoon and told me I knew nothing of European politics or the needs of the UK. She was furious when I asked her what she knew of American politics or the needs of the States, being from West London.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:26:53 PM EDT

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Pretty much all the Eastern European and Russian people I've met have and interacted with on the internet have been pro-gun.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:33:04 PM EDT

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Australians.

Bunch of cunts on the other side of the planet who have nothing better to do than whine about us.

Largely due to the fact that they know their Crocodile Dundee marketing image is actually a load of shit; per capita, they're more ate up with metrosexual citiots than most other countries.

Plus they're scared shitless of China, which subtly motivates them to play the "We're not America!" card at every opportunity.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:33:47 PM EDT

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Pretty much everywhere I've been, and whatever nationality I'm talking to, it's a mixed bag... some love us, some hate everything we do. Some think we're provincial fucktards, some think we have the right idea. Some love the direction we're going, some hate it.

It is very much the same here.

What varies wildly is folks' understanding of the various US subcultures (including "gun culture"). Sometimes their judgements are based on pretty absurd things (as if your only touchstone for British culture was "Fawlty Towers", or something). Mostly, foreigners (particularly Europeans) don't have a clue how big the US is, or how different one region is from another.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:40:25 PM EDT

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When I was traveling after graduating college I met tons of German, French, Australian, and English folks in the hostels.

All aside from a couple of the German guys had an irrational fear of guns.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:42:29 PM EDT

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Pretty much everywhere I've been, and whatever nationality I'm talking to, it's a mixed bag... some love us, some hate everything we do. Some think we're provincial fucktards, some think we have the right idea. Some love the direction we're going, some hate it.

It is very much the same here.

What varies wildly is folks' understanding of the various US subcultures (including "gun culture"). Sometimes their judgements are based on pretty absurd things (as if your only touchstone for British culture was "Fawlty Towers", or something). Mostly, foreigners (particularly Europeans) don't have a clue how big the US is, or how different one region is from another.

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Only understanding I have of British culture comes from years of watching Monty Python and random comments from Agent Funky

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:44:42 PM EDT

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Europeans are the biggest aholes, Canadians and Australians come right after.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:45:20 PM EDT

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Definitely Europeans.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:46:29 PM EDT

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Canadians are pretty tarded about it and the 2nd Adm in general.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:48:41 PM EDT

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Fucking Brits.

I cannot stand those folks. I make a few exceptions, of course.

Eastern Europeans are either jealous of what we have, or laugh about what they "don't have".

Never met an Asian that cares. Most seem open to guns.

Middle-east - LOL.

Africa - LOL.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:51:52 PM EDT

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Same here. I've sold guns to a Canadian citizen (permanent resident) that ended up talking shit about US gun culture. The stupidity of this shitbird deriding the very rights he was taking advantage of almost made me faint. Had to walk away before I said something that would get me fired, but I'm pretty sure a coworker laid down a little subtle smack on the guy that shut him up.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:52:55 PM EDT

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My experience: Germans.

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I troll the fuck out of East Germans in support of gun control by telling them if they'd had more guns in '53, maybe their government wouldn't have tried to abolish their electorate and create another.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:54:19 PM EDT

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I'm around a lot of foreign folks at work. By far the UK people are the the worst. They trash talk everything here, esp guns and politics. Go back, just leave. damn.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:55:07 PM EDT

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Glad Canada isn't on the top of that shit list, lol! I voted Western Europe and it looks like I wasn't far off the mark.

But we do have a fair share of Liberal retards, hell, our country is being run the biggest pot-smoking anti-gun prick there is and if the bastard had his way, he'd probably take all of our guns.

Wish the NRA would have a stronger presence in Canada.

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:55:35 PM EDT

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The brits are the worst IMO

Posted: 9/29/2016 12:58:44 PM EDT

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where's Swede?

Posted: 9/29/2016 1:00:23 PM EDT

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The worst anti-gunners I've ever interacted with have all been Americans.

Even our own anti-gunners are at least somewhat willing to listen to a well thought out argument. American ones are way more rabid.

Posted: 9/29/2016 1:05:11 PM EDT

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As if you Colonials don't have silly opinions on how we do stuff.

Posted: 9/29/2016 1:05:59 PM EDT

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Any and all of them. There was a time when Americans proudly couldn't give a damn about what people in other countries thought about the way we conducted ourselves in our own country. Now every news source gleefully showcases some nut in some other country spouting off nonsense about how we live and our freedoms.

Whether the nuts they show are the norm or not, I really couldn't give a damn. We're not Europe, Australia, Canada, South America, Africa, etc.

We need to get back to being America. Just like England is getting back to being England.

I'm not saying Fuck the rest of the world, I'm just saying Fuck their opinions on my freedom and rights. And fair is fair, they should be saying the same to us.