OzOne wrote in message ...


Ya think?
You have a president with radical christain views (despite what he
practices)

Not really. His views are rather traditional Christian views, with a few
minor contemporary quirks. Nothing radical about them, and both Americans
and Europeans would agree. Now, if you'd care to discuss some of the
current radical Muslim values . . .

You have a bunch of laws after 911 which are quite the equivalent of a
police state, and,

Yes, perhaps, but nothing at all like the gun grab in Oz. That's more like
a totalitarian state action.

You have by way of your gun laws a situation where people regularly
walk into schools and shoot people.

That's most unfortunate, but look in your own backyard before casting stones
on this issue. Your own gun violence, robbery, murder, etc. have risen
substantially since the bad guys no longer face law-abiding armed citizens
in Oz.

Our problem here stems from a legal system gone awry. Students can no
longer be disciplined in our schools, thanks to the ACLU and money-hungry
left-wing lawyers. So kids run amok daily. They bully younger, smaller,
weaker kids to the breaking point. Parents don't parent, and teachers can't
teach. And the kids have few positive role models. So they act out against
their deepest frustrations and fears. In my youth, we had almost no gun
laws at all, and no one ever walked into a school and started shooting.
That's because the school administrators and teachers could discipline
unruly kids and expel the ones that were incorrigible. Sure, we had
bullies, but we used to get a bunch of kids together and take the bullies
out back and beat the hell out of them. Problem solved. Today such action
would land us all in jail and invite myriad lawsuits. Our legal system is
the problem, not guns. And lack of guns among the law-abiding is a problem
for you in Oz.


It may be dumb but as they say on the box "Scotty, this is your life "

I'll take Scotty's life over one in Oz any day.

Max