Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> If that were the case, then shouldn't all the other countries with 
>> tougher gun control have been replaced by totalitarian regimes by now?
> 
> Many of them have been. The USA is arguably[1] one of the countries with 
> the longest continuous government. (Altho I don't expect that's really 
> due to the gun laws. :-)
> 
> [1] The argument being how you measure "continuous". One can measure it 
> in a way that very few governments are older.
> 
Its also the country with the highest number of people in jail, the 
highest levels of drug use, the highest cases of teen pregnancies, the 
highest rate of violent crime, the highest level of science denial, etc. 
Well, once you discount places like the ME, since compared to them, we 
have only the "second highest" number of religious fanatics.

Somehow, I would hate to think that "longest continuous government" 
requires any or all of these things, to survive this long. And, its not 
so clear why, "only modern country that has relatively weak gun laws", 
is on the "good things" side of the line, instead of right up there with 
the other list. ;) lol

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