Not at all Dixie...every other civilised country thinks it's madness that there's so many shootings and massacres but still nothing is done. The macho need to "defend" yourself with a fully automatic weapon against some perceived threat is strange as well...all because of some 200 year old constitutional amendment that was written by guys who owned slaves.
The US is a great country but it's obviously a subject which difficult for you all to agree amongst yourselves with, never mind someone from another country! I suppose if everyone in my street/town owned a gun, Id probably feel the need to have one as well...but it'd hardly reduce the chance of catching a bullet at some point
Oh fuck off.
Seriously, the last we need is some jerkass telling us how "uncivilized" we are because we believe in the right to bear arms.
You miss one key concept in all this: context. Our Constitution is unlike any other on this earth, provides for checks and balances between the executive, legislative and judicial.
And just for the record, not every Founding Father owned slaves, nor did all condone slavery. The only reason it was allowed to continue was to compromise the Southern delegates.
You also fail to realize they lived in a time where black people were not considered the same as whites. Unfortunate but that's how it was back then. You really think the rights and standards of black African slaves were a priority in 1787?
