Just to add an additional point here for our European IINers, is that gun culture can become a bittersweet part of a National Identity. Many families have 200 year old antique flintlock rifles handed down from previous generations mounted over their fireplaces. They look kind of cool actually, and can be a conversation piece on how a certain branch of your family is connected to American history.
That plus beautiful forests in Canada and parts of the U.S. need to be hunted when the deer population gets too high, lest the next drought cause the starving deer to peel back the bark of trees to desperately stay alive causing the trees to die. Anyway, I'm no zealot, but bolt action hunting rifles available to the public plus a civilian militia like Switzerland has got is my best personal interpretation of the second amendment.
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Just to add an additional point here for our European IINers, is that gun culture can become a bittersweet part of a National Identity. Many families have 200 year old antique flintlock rifles handed down from previous generations mounted over their fireplaces. They look kind of cool actually, and can be a conversation piece on how a certain branch of your family is connected to American history.
That plus beautiful forests in Canada and parts of the U.S. need to be hunted when the deer population gets too high, lest the next drought cause the starving deer to peel back the bark of trees to desperately stay alive causing the trees to die. Anyway, I'm no zealot, but bolt action hunting rifles available to the public plus a civilian militia like Switzerland has got is my best personal interpretation of the second amendment.