🙄I've been noticing a few people who aren't from North America (never lived here, never born here, never grew up here, etc) trying to spew nonsense about North America and our laws.
Firstly. How can you comment on a continent when you were never born/raised/lived here and are merely going by what the media portrays to you? If I believed every little thing I read about Sweden, Denmark, the UK in general, I'd be in a loony cell somewhere playing twiddle winks and hoping and praying that someone didn't forget the damn bubble wrap! If you have zero family connections here and are merely going by outdated statistics, then newsflash, you don't know about North America or her laws.
Secondly. North America is split into two nations; The USA and Canada. Each country has it's own rules, it's own regulations and it's own laws. In Oklahoma (for those not in the know, this is a US State), there is the Cherokee Nation. It is a nation within a nation. It has it's own rules, regulations, laws, customs, belief system, etc. While yes, the Cherokee are very much so, governed by the US laws, they also adhere to their own laws. Fun fact; it's illegal for a native in the USA to stand trial with only a white jury. At least one member of the jury must be native, otherwise, it's grounds for a mistrial (went through it with my ex).
Thirdly. Yes, we are in fact allowed to do animal sacrifice. The Jewish and Islamic communities still do this, even in North America. You just never hear about it. Hygienic? If you can sit there, complaining about ritual animal sacrifice while gobbling down haggis then you've no room to talk. Simple as that (and for those who don't know wtf haggis is - it's a traditional dish in which the haggis recipe call for a sheep's stomach and a sheep's pluck (heart, lungs, windpipe and liver - yeah let's talk about what the LIVER filters...yeah exactly).
Fourthly. There seems to be this misconception that if an American owns a gun, for any other purpose other than to hunt, it's because we intend to commit a crime. I'm sorry but what freaking planet are you from in which you got THAT logic from? While yes, the USA has a higher gun crime rate, the fact of the matter is, Japan which has very few gun crimes, has the HIGHEST sword/knife crime rate. In fact, in order to even OWN a gun in Japan, you have to go through a RIGORUS training period, mental evaluation period and you have to have this done EVERY FREAKING YEAR. My brother owns a gun because he lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario Canada. Now. If you're not on the know how, Elliot Lake is in NORTHERN ONTARIO, meaning, he gets to deal with; Black/Brown/Grizzly/Polar Bears. Wolves. Coyotes. Badgers. Moose. And yes, the odd weirdo from down the street.
He owns a gun because if you go outside at night, as his JOB in the MILITARY often entails him to do, you go out with a firearm simply because, not doing so, is stupid. Simple as that. He's had an 800 pound grizzly standing mere FEET from his truck. Had he just gone out, without his gun, I'll let your mind figure out how BADLY this could of ended. Many people in North America own guns for PP (Personal Protection), especially those of domestic violence and so forth. In fact, many survivors are TRAINED in PPP (Personal Protection Programs) so that way, they know what to do should/if/when their abuser comes after them again (and yes, it's perfectly legal to shoot to maim your aggressor in self defense). I myself, while not liking guns, knows how to use a large variety of them.
Lastly. ANYTHING can be a weapon. I've seen this comment popping up alot and honestly? It ticks me off when someone sits there, thinking they're oh so smart when hey say "only guns are weapons!" The reality is, they aren't smart. A bomb is a weapon. A tank is a weapon. A car, truck, bus, boat, literally anything can be a weapon if placed in the wrong hands. It's morbidly alarming that there's a certain group of people within a group I'm in, who are so narrow mindedly believing that ONLY guns are weapons for destruction when this has been proven, both currently and historically as WRONG. Were there guns when England was first being founded? No. Were there guns when the Vikings went sailing? No. They used swords. Knives. Axes. Spears or, quite literally, any bloody thing they could grab and get their hands on. Gotta large rock? That'll suffice as a bludgeoning tool. Using your own enemies skull on another's? Sure, whatever works.
I have two brothers, both still active duty, who have seen some pretty weird weapons of warfare. My older brother has literally seen an throw another's dead body just so he could try and hurt one member of my brother's squadron. The horror stories he's come home with, astounds and blows my mind, so the fact that there is a rather large group within a group I'm in, who believe (quite firmly) that only guns are weapons of harm, is alarming (need I remind you, it didn't take a gun to level the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Have we literally forgotten those two bombs of mass destruction so readily? Wow...that's freaking alarming).
Fact is, and this has been proven, the Vikings didn't own guns. They owned swords, spears, knives and axes and during battles, literally anything became a damn weapon. How many Viking age skeletons have been found with blunt force trauma to their skulls? No weapon injury, just literal, blunt force trauma. This would lead most to believe that the person in question, was killed after being all but beaten to death by someone's hands.
It astounds and blows my mind how many thing only guns kill. The fact of the matter is, this is so far from the truth that it's not funny. Anything can be a weapon if in the wrong hands. Read that sentence again. Then again. Till it sinks in.
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