Originally Posted By Lock&Load:
I am constantly having arguments with U.K. citizens in various Yahoo clubs about gun control. They just don't get it...
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Try getting in on the U2 message board at NME.co.uk (watch the wrap)- you'll see some really bizarre comments from people who know nothing about guns, other than what the media tell them to think.
http://www.nme.com/AST/Discussion_Groups/CDA/Message_Index/0,1113,37_79-0,FF.html
As for me, an American, who was raised in Europe with a British wife and German in-laws, etc., lemme tell ya- to them, and most Europeans, WE are the REAL wackos and "Nazis", even when their erroneus beliefs about guns, self-defense and history fly in the face of facts. What a brainwashed continent.
So now, I just sit around and clean the AR in front of them at tea time, (CLP is, compared to Hoppe's, virtually odorless) and just keep conversing as if nothing were wrong.
I think the shock therapy is working- they have grown used to it, and say, "Ach ja, so sind die Amerikaner." (Oh well, that's how Americans are.) Tea, anyone? :^)
I haven't changed their beliefs about it, but they have become so used to seeing gun paraphernalia and books in the house, that they have come to terms with it, at least.
If ya can't change their minds, at least let them know you won't budge an inch- the support for gun control in this world is a mile wide, but an inch deep. Most people just don't really care- including most gunowners- but that's another story....