Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Isnt this how America started? The British army was given orders to search for and confiscate guns, it did not matter wether or not it was a shopkeepers pistol or a farmers squirrel gun. The next thing ya know the shopkeepers and farmers are waiting for the British regulars at the bridge at Lexington. The rest is as they say....history.


This is also why Imperial Japan never came ashore.


IMO you should have done this in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere, then the British govt would have no Commonwealth to fund and feed her wars. But then again this is why His/Her majesties instituted the Commonwealth, to give the illusion of autonomy, pre empting any further need of revolution among any other colonial settlements. I am not bashing here, I am simply showing historical references.


To sum it up Americans are rather disrespectful to laws that show the individual no respect. Note the effects of prohibition, the failing war on drugs.

The British Commonwealth of Nations was founded in 1931. Note the word nations not colonies. Just what wars were you referring to, WWII? I sometimes wonder about Americans grasp of history not directly connected to the US. Canada did not automatically go to war when Britain declared war on Germany 03 Sept. 1939 but had a Parliamentary debate and vote declaring on 10 Sept. 1939. There is a whole wonderful world out there to properly explore not centered on the US.

Bob