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Originally Posted by claytonender
For once John and I are singing from the same hymn sheet on this one (which is very rare I know).
I will tell you about an dialogue I have been having for the last couple of weeks with some American 'christians', which shows just how insular and extreme some Americans are.
2 Weeks ago one of my American relatives posted a You Tube video on Facebook purporting to be about how in the UK there were mass protests because we had lost the right to bear arms. The video lasted about 5 mins and most of it was taken from the 2002 march for Liberty and Livelihood with interviews from marchers. What it failed to make clear was these people were not protesting about gun controls in the UK. I posted back to her telling her the truth both about the march and what the position on guns was here in the UK. I was then subjected to a tirade of abuse about my ignorance of what was happening in the UK and that we were virtually an Islamic state.
This was all from someone who has never visited England and advocates that it is everyone's god given right to own a gun and use it when they feel they need to protect themselves. She (and several of her friends who also joined in 'debate') are very extreme right wing Christians who would agree with burning of the Koran - unfortunately there are some very weird perversions of the Christian Church in the US - who don't appear to consider the consequences.
Extremism in all its forms is extremely worrying. I just hope that either this man is stopped or he bares the responsibility of his actions.
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Nothing surprise me about lots of things in the States Joan, For ages now I've watch the documentary chanels on TV every night, and some of the weird and wonderful things they Yanks come up with are priceless, and I totally agree with your last statement too