December 25, 2012 06:51AM
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This is something I've been thinking about lately and is not only related to guns but most areas of governance.
In the United States we have two major political movements: conservative (Republican) and liberal (Democrat). Those labels don't generally suit me but for the sake of discussion I'll keep them.
Basically when a problem arises conservatives and liberals will take two different approaches. The conservative tends to want to take matters into their own hands and deal with it on a personal level. The liberal will want to externalize the solutions and make more broad changes which, for lack of a better way of putting it, means someone else deals with the problem.
IMHO there's a place for both and a balance of the approaches is ideal. But, it's why, for example when there's a gun crime the conservative will say "Hmm, I'd better get a gun so I can shoot a bad guy that tries to attack me." while a liberal will say "Well, someone else needs to round up all the guns and not let anyone have one." This is of course a bit of a parody of both sides. Not all conservatives are even interested in guns, and many liberals own them. It's just an illustration of the different approaches the two sides take to the same problem. It's also why liberals support socializing medicine while conservatives do not. The conservative sees it as a problem they will deal with in their own family/life and doesn't need any outside intrusion.
My limited experience with European politics is that our liberals would be considered quite conservative by your standards, so our conservatives must seem absolutely anarchist by comparison. It's not true though. American heritage is still based on frontierism. It's in our blood. We're not all Texas cowboy caricatures like we're perceived in European media but we do still have a lot of that spirit in our personalities.
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