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Guns are not a part of the culture of my homeland, except perhaps for the occasional Bollywood movie in which the bad guy meets his demise staring down the wrong end of a barrel.
My childhood in India was steeped in ahimsa, the tenet of nonviolence toward all living things.
The Indians may have succeeded in ousting the British, but we won with Gandhian-style civil disobedience, not a revolutionary war.
I grew up not knowing a single gun owner, and even today India has one of the strictest gun laws on the planet. Few Indians buy and keep firearms at home, and gun violence is nowhere near the problem it is in the United States. An American is 12 times more likely than an Indian to be killed by a firearm, according to a recent study.
It's no wonder then that every time I visit India, my friends and family want to know more about America's "love affair" with guns.
I get the same questions when I visit my brother in Canada or on my business travels to other countries, where many people remain perplexed, maybe even downright mystified, by Americans' defense of gun rights.
I admit I do not fully understand it myself, despite having become an American citizen nearly a decade ago. So when I learn the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention here in Atlanta, right next to the CNN Center, I decide to go and find out more.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/indian-immigrant-nra-convention/index.html
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:58PM (4 children)
Neither do you. GP was making a wager that the person's viewpoint is inaccurate; you're wagering that it is accurate.
something you are hyper-emotionally invested in.
All you accomplished was to demonstrate that you got so worked up that you thought making unfounded insults
Pot: kettle.
Enough to persuade any critical readers that you should not be taken seriously.
At least he signed his name to his posts.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @07:14PM (3 children)
> GP was making a wager that the person's viewpoint is inaccurate; you're wagering that it is accurate.
Nope. That's you projecting your issues on my criticism of his denial of his insult.
I didn't pretend to make some 3rd party neutral observation that if true would reflect poorly on the OP.
I straight up said he was a wanker.
> At least he signed his name to his posts.
I don't want to be doxed.
Let me show you easy it is:
Full name: Tango Crisco Margarine
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Address: 1412 I Can't Believe Its Not Butter Lane
Foxtrot, Wisconsin
Phone: 712-667-1212
That is you, right?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 04 2017, @08:11PM (2 children)
You seem to be arguing against your own excuse with this doxxing thing.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:49PM (1 child)
Do I really have to explain to you that TANGO MARGARINE is not a real name?
That there is no road called "I can't believe its not butter lane?"
That there is no city named Foxtrot?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 05 2017, @02:37PM
You're complaining that you don't want to be doxxed for providing a pseudonym with no other connecting information. This doesn't make any sense.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"