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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Statements like that stem from news items where people defended themselves only to harassed and prosecuted by the authorities. First with guns and then other implements.
They think we have the OK corral going on every day and we think they are required by law not to defend themselves. The misconceptions go both ways.  |
Who thinks you have the OK Corral going on? I was one of
them, remember? Brits have a tendency to think that what we see in the movies and on TV is "just Hollywood". Deep down we believe America is not really so different from the UK -hey we almost speak the same language -how could it be? Then we get here and find it isn't all make-believe, and that's why we sometimes suffer from culture shock more than our different-language speaking neighbors -we don't expect it to be so foreign! Ask any Brit expat. Very few Brits believe deep-down that average American citizens actually have guns in the house, just as we don't realize that steam really does billow from ironworks in the city streets or that the ET halloween scene is not terribly far-fetched. Our press may try and make us think that it's all Dodge City, but we don't believe them, either
