[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by csThor

No, I have never fired a weapon (wasn't conscripted, either, due to health reasons) nor do I intend to.

I figured as much.

And to answer your question yes, I'd consider someone owning 300 weapons a person in dire need of psych evaluation.

so, you have no experience, and still you feel the right to say whether someone who has an interest different than yours is in need of psych evaluation. Sounds terribly like Germany in the early 30s to me..

And to derail your other rather far-off analogy you only need to take a look at all of Germany's history to understand why privately owned weapons never were and never will be seeing any kind of grand social acceptance here. Us Krauts aren't a society of revolutionaries - we've had two revolutions in our entire history, the French had more in a single year IIRC - so the idea that privately owned weapons would have prevented Hitler ... Pardon, but Bullsh*t!

Since my words have apparently touched a nerve and I have no intention of being dragged into a flamefest I hereby do the clever thing and say goodbye to this thread.

If there's one thing that is really cool about Germany is that in all their decisions (good and bad), they've always been "Ein Volk", and the orderly mentality of Germany hardly marries with the idea of revolution. Gun ownership wouldn't have made a difference anyway cos the majority of people in Germany were pro-Hitler..

The problem is that you're still giving the wrong meaning to gun ownership, something you actually know NOTHING about, but still feel like you can give your uninformed opinion because of God knows what reason.

And yeah, nice way of flipping things around, I think you're leaving because you realise you actually don't have a valid argument. Funny that your avatar is a hunter with a gun though, isn't it?