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That got your attention, didn't it?
But it's not so dramatic ... I'm an American living in England. Until 1920 over here, you could go to the hardware shop and buy a revolver and even carry it concealed. The Law didn't care.
Then came WWI, the Russian Revolution, and a lot of social unrest. The British ruling class got worried about guns in the hands of militant workers, so they passed a law requiring them to be licensed. Now, only farmers and wealthy businessmen who hunt can own guns. Handguns are absolutely forbidden. You can shoot at a range if you're a member. I'm on a waiting list. By the way, if you check the homicide rate for Britain in 1898, when guns were freely available, and in 1998, when they weren't ... you may be surprised. (Or you may not.) In any case, the homicide rate was a lot lower then than it is now.
(I shoot my nephew's AR15 when I go back to the US every summer, but I pretty much got satiated with shooting that model when I shot its granddaddy the M16, fifty years ago, thousands of rounds all paid for by Uncle Sam.)
Anyway, I'm here because I've gotten increasingly worried about the direction the US is taking. Politically, I'm probably closest to a JFK/FDR 1960 Democrat. (I grew up in Texas in the 1950s and we were all Democrats -- there was supposedly a Republican in Dallas but no one really believed it.) But that's long gone, and the Democrats, or a lot of them anyway, seem to be being pulled far to the Left ... or up into outer space .. by some really sinister forces. I've watched the latter slowly take over American academic life (I'm an academic myself), where they have spread a deep anti-Americanism, which now seems to be turning up everywhere.
So ... I want to talk to people who might also be concerned, get your ideas about what is happening, why it's happening, and what we can do about it. I've got some ideas of my own, as well, one of which I have already posted.