Drae: Thank you for correcting me. I appreciate dangerous women! Once again,welcome. Now,if youwill excuse me;
I'm not offended by the above. Your careless statement about school shootings is another matter though. School shootings and violence in our country have little to with our gun laws. It has nothing to do with the superiority of Polish gun laws or the carelessness of the American people. If you want to discuss that, I suggest you find another place to do it.
I find school shootings deeply troubling. I feel them in my heart and in my guts.I retired after working 10 years as a school custodian (after my machine work went to China)
I grew up with DCM and Jr NRA small bore programs available everywhere.I used to shoot at the YMCA indoor range in Aurora,Illinois,as a 6th grade kid with no father around. There was an Old Man there who would stay as long as I would,sometimes late. I'm grateful. He was a mentor.
There was an AR-15 in the house in 1965
At that time we could still buy about anything through mail order,cheap.
The Service Armament Co would sell you a Lahti or Solothurn anti-tank rifle or a 60 mm mortar.
We still had full Freedom.
But then JFK was assassinated. And RFK,and MLK. I might agree that our gun laws have very little effect on preventing crime,but strongly disagree with you if you think crime has had little effect on gun laws.The political assassinations of the 60's brought the GCA of 1968....and actually mobster violence brought us the FFA of 1934.
Every one of the mass shootings,particularly school shootings,brings up tremendous emotion and pressure from media ,anti-gun citizens,and politicians to"do something"
It is precisely the irresponsible violence of a relatively few people that drives restrictive gun laws.
I speak for myself, I am not a snowflake who will be triggered and need my safe space when someone from another part of the world tries to have a friendly conversation.
Our PC world has made every conversation a dance in a minefield.
If you are so thin skinned you can't handle a conversation from someone who has a slightly different world view,perhaps you should go elsewhere.
I have respect for "The Cowboy Way" I wish more Americans had learned to practice it.
FWIW,this will take you to a vid about 303 squadron,some Polish volunteer pilots who played a role in the Battle of Britain before the USA became involved.
https://youtu.be/ptijNcDanVw