So European governments have a socialistic concept of government? Does that mean we have an anti-socialistic form of government? Regarding serfdom, that is not a state of life one willingly enters into. You are born a serf. You belong to the land. Later, some lord got the idea they could make more money with sheep on the land than with people, and the idea of serfdom became old-fashioned. People didn't matter any more and that was a long time ago. But it probably contributed to people coming to the new world. They did not necessarily come for more freedom. Go read about the Puritans.
British (not necessarily European) ideas about arms control really began with the English Civil Wars. We have the quaint idea that only modern wars are destructive. They also resisted the idea of fortifications around cities, thinking that because there were fortifications around cities on the continent, they had more wars.
Do we really have lots of gun factories, by the way? When I go to a gun shop, I see Sigs, Glocks, Walthers, CZs, H&K and other fine products not made here. Maybe the original poster is uninformed as to where guns are actually made.
British (not necessarily European) ideas about arms control really began with the English Civil Wars. We have the quaint idea that only modern wars are destructive. They also resisted the idea of fortifications around cities, thinking that because there were fortifications around cities on the continent, they had more wars.
Do we really have lots of gun factories, by the way? When I go to a gun shop, I see Sigs, Glocks, Walthers, CZs, H&K and other fine products not made here. Maybe the original poster is uninformed as to where guns are actually made.
