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acpartsman
Veteran Cruncher Martinsville VA, USA Joined: May 6, 2007 Post Count: 943 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That's part of why I'm amazed America is ranked that high. Our Government has placed themselves on a pedestal above the laws of the nation that the rest of us have to obey. They exempt themselves from every law they pass, they are almost never prosecuted for the laws they break and when they are it's never in the same fashion as the rest of us would be or for as long.
----------------------------------------I guess the ranking just goes hand in hand with the brain washing the mainstream media has brought on us. I do love living in the US but we could certainly use an overhaul. People are always talking about Democracy, they don't understand America is not a Democracy, it's a Republic and then they wonder why things fall apart when they elect a Democrat to run it.
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You could look at it this way, acpartsman:
Most countries are ranked below the USA which means that they are worse off  Of course one's own happiness should not come from comparing with others' bad luck. Living in a democracy [lower case] allows you the option of choosing people of integrity for public offices. This option is often more virtual than realistic for the average voter. In my country as well.  I do love living in the US but we could certainly use an overhaul. I'm glad. So many envies you all over the world. And what doesn't need an overhaul - the #1s in all three disciplines do, too, if you ask the citizens there.  |
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Good Morning Base Campers!
Politics is interesting, and finding oneself in an echo room is hyggeligt. You get your views confirmed and find some security in that. Meeting the views of acpartsman and GeraldRube is anything but an echo chamber for me, and that’s exactly what’s exciting about it. I need to try to see things from their perspective. I need them and other Americans with different opinions to educate me. Some I understand. The feeling of being taken for granted, the feeling of one’s viewpoints not be taken into account, the feeling of being snubbed by the ’elite’, the ’ruling class’, the ’intelligentia’ – whatever they are dubbed, the feeling of not being valued according to one’s contribution, the feeling of wanting society to take another direction. All that is well known in Denmark and several other countries in Europe as well where the ’rotten banana dwellers’, those living in the worse off far flung areas where the 'intelligentia' don't tread except for vacationing, the backwoods ’hillbillies’ decided they have had it. They were sick and tired of having their opinions and points of view looked down upon and ridiculed. They felt they contributed fully as much or even more to their country as did the ’intelligentia’, and, besides, they were conscious of for the most part being the ones putting bread on the tables of the ’intelligentia’ through their taxes. I kind of like ’intelligentia’ because of its Soviet roots. Intelligentia is good as long as it knows how to apply its intelligence.  One thing that distinguishes the USA and Denmark is the attitude to welfare and guns. Danes don’t do guns – at least legally – except for government approved warfare. We don’t feel threatened. Americans are allowed within certain limitations from state to state to ’bear arms’. And many of them seem to find it necessary. It is as if the fight for liberty from the Brits never left as far as the Minuteman spirit goes. In general American history is one of revolution, comparatively short, brutal, and impressive, and weapons must have been seen as a necessity in many instances. The Danish history is one of a thousand years of relatively peaceful evolution. As to welfare Americans are hardworking people, their taxes are not low (where do they go?) and they often seem to think that welfare is given to a large and growing number of ’freeriders’ on top of those whom they think deserve it. Danes have high taxes. Some is wasted but in general they get something for the money. One very important thing is universal health care, another is free tuition at universities – you even get a monthly payment for studying. We know we have ’freeriders’ but it’s not a very big issue, although we do like to see people contribute with what they can. And that goes for our newcomers too. Denmark’s legacy in the USA often seems to be on the welfare level. Jacob Riis fought for betterment of the abhorrent and unhealthy living conditions in New York City which he described in words and photos in articles and the book ’How the Other Half Lives’ and gained support for his ideas from high places.  Teddy Roosevelt was a friend of his. This morning I happened to stumble over a man I never heard about called Jens Jensen. He was a Danish immigrant ending up in Chicago and became Chicago’s answer to Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of Central Park in New York. In a mention for a TV-programme it says: Danish-born Jens Jensen (1860-1951) immigrated in the 19th century from Denmark to the United States, where he made a quick career from street sweeper to city planner and groundbreaking environmentalist in Chicago. When Jensen arrived in Chicago in 1885, the city was the fastest growing city in history, and the worst to live in. With great risk to himself and his family, Jens Jensen fought corruption and a growing and unbridled industry struggled to provide light and air to the city’s working population in the form of parks and communal gardens where they could grow vegetables.  The Chicago Tribune have a list of articles about Jens Jensen, who by the way went on to design houses of an easthetic quality to be compared to Frank Lloyd Wright's. He designed the garden at Henry Ford's estate in Dearborn and successively a new home for Edsel and Eleanor Ford  they should have let him tried his hand on the Ford Edsel ....  So what did I want to say? Well, I don’t really know. Perhaps I was mulling a question: Does guns and righteous indignation grow in your DNA? |
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acpartsman
Veteran Cruncher Martinsville VA, USA Joined: May 6, 2007 Post Count: 943 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I do own guns and have a carry permit although 99.9% of the time they all stay locked in a safe. I love to shoot for fun but the guns I like to shoot I can't afford nor can I afford the ammo. LOL
----------------------------------------About the only shooting I do now is to kill the occasional groundhog that like doing damage to my front yard. So if Danes don't possess guns then I take it hunting is not permitted. How do you keep the wildlife population in check? Of course hunting is permitted here but is so restricted on some species that their population is out of control.
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You have a point, acpartsman.
Hunters. Yes, we have hunters. Rabbits, deer, pheasants and pigeons to eat …. sometimes foxes because their number needs to be controlled, sometimes comorants for the same reason. Somehow I didn’t think of them as gun owners, which they of course are. I looked up the rules for getting permits for pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, and one article reads: Compared to the rest of the world It is quite difficult to get a permission to buy a firearm in Denmark. In effect, in order to get a weapon permit, you must be either a hunter or registered shooter. But even if you meet these conditions, there are limitations as to which weapons you may buy. Target shooters If you want to own a pistol in Denmark, you must have been an active member of a shooting club for at least two years, and provided you display a sensible attitude toward weapons and have a clean criminal record and continue to shoot actively in your shooting club, you may apply for permission to own a weapon. There are restrictions as to which weapons you may acquire as a target shooter. For example, it is unlawful to buy military rifles or pistols with a length of less than 21 cm ~ 8 ¼”, which can be easily concealed on the body. The gun permit is recalled if the shooter stops being active in the club registry or becomes mentally unstable. As soon as people are no longer active, they have to hand over their weapons for sale. Hunters As a hunter, you may get a permission to own weapons except for pistols and semi and fully automatic weapons. Hunters can get permits for shotguns and hunting rifles, and there are limitations. In Denmark a hunting rifle must hold a maximum of two cartridges. That means that the so-called pump guns cannot be bought by Danes unless they are modified for a maximum of two shots. To get a hunting license, one must pass a theoretical as well as a practical test. The tests for a hunting rifle and a shotgun respectively are different. A hunting license must be renewed annually. If a hunter fails to renew his license, the weapons permit will lapse. There is virtually no crime carried out in Denmark with legal weapons. It's much easier for smugglers and criminals to smuggle weapons from abroad than aquire them legally. We have a Homeguard. The voluntary members used to have their weapons and ammunition at home. That was changed when a stolen M95 automatic rifle was used for a deadly terror attack in Copenhagen. A technical solution means that the Homeguard members again can keep their weapons at home. I hope this makes sense to you in spite of my more than rudimentary knowledge of firearms, which I suspect may affect my translation. |
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A little postcard of France, without politic. When we are here, just say it's beautiful :
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Congratulations with your new pc, stefada
 Yes, it really is beautiful - and slippery. I saw these guys behind your garage when I had my shower with Louloup   |
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The little stuffed animals there? It's normal ! It's needs a lot of toys for Louloup. And teddy bears, they are very good at playing freesbee!
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 Ah, you're right! Not to worry - just throw a friebee   |
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acpartsman
Veteran Cruncher Martinsville VA, USA Joined: May 6, 2007 Post Count: 943 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Very interesting, guess they'd have a stroke with my 25 and 50 round clips. LOL
----------------------------------------I'd love to paste what you said to Facebook BUT the ones that it would be directed at will never understand that gun control will NEVER apply to those that misuse them. I'll think on it, might post it anyway. Idiots here scream gun control anytime something happens that would've happened anyway but never say a word when a similar event happens using something besides a gun. Last week a school incident happened using a knife yet it never made the news and it seems everyone has forgotten Timothy McVeigh, he used fertilizer and diesel fuel to kill more children and people than all the school shooters combined and would've killed even more but one of his bombs failed to detonate. Had the second one worked it would've brought down the entire building.
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