Gun control
2002-12-18 14:41:24+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
On my recent trip to Hong Kong I was reminded of how good it is to be an American. I mean, in a total Lee Greenwood with Nashville twang "Proud To Be an American" way, with it so obvious that so many people in these remarkably different cultures wanted to live where I did. Then on the flight back from Tokyo to San Francisco I sat next to a man from the Netherlands who's settled in California who praised the U.S., especially foreign policy, up one side and down the other. "You came to Europe, you did the job that needed to be done, you went home. That's not Imperialism." Now I actually think that our reconstruction in Germany went far beyond that, but let's just say that despite my disputes with the Bush administration, and despite my perpetual cynicism, I think really highly of the United States.
So with that flush of patriotism in mind, I want to rekindle some controversies by encouraging y'all to go read one of the best arguments against gun control I've ever read, with some great pull-quotes:
And why is it that of all we produce and all we exult, the only things that seem to have caught on in Europe are McDonald's and Baywatch? That says much more about you than it does about us, and none of it good, I'm afraid.