| Ive been to Australia twice. LOVED IT there are so many good reasons to go and I'm not at all scared of their poisonous critters. >Interesting to see how people filter. From my perspective, that would be a plus point of moving there. I love that you cannot own a gun in the UK. As a Canadian, I legitimately didnt understand the value or brilliance of the 2nd amendment until the last few years. If you live in a country which doesn't have civilian ownership of guns, you dont live in a free country. You may have been misled into believing it is a free country but it's not. That's black and white. You mention UK. How about your "Snoopers charter" where the UK government has a full copy of every text, comment, or phonecall. The only thing they dont collect is video chats. They have an extensive database log of you and they know more about you and your personality than you do. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-60707646 Howabout major civil rights violations and disallowing of protests? How about that windrush scandal? The rwanda deportations? How about all the arrests of journalists? David Miranda was killed by MI6. https://www.mygov.scot/police-stop-search The scot police can just stop and search you and your vehicle whenever they please? In the USA, 1st amendment auditors are all over youtube because police in usa think they can get away with this, but apparently stop and search your papers in the UK is real? The USA has Terry-Ohio but the UK has never had that i guess? How about the UK's "non-crime hate incidents" which straight up is just anti-free speech. But then again the UK has no affirmative right to free speech. How about that guy who said mean words online, was anti-migrant. 3 years in prison for speech. Lets be realistic, the UK isnt a free country and there's literally only 1 reason why. The lack of civilian ownership of firearms. |
There is no such thing as a free country. Ever since the first few homo sapiens pooled their resources and formed a tribe, they had to compromise their freedoms and agree common rules.
I agree that there are a lot of undesirable things about the UK, but I we don't have much worry about being shot. I like it that way.
> and there's literally only 1 reason why. The lack of civilian ownership of firearms.
I don't agree with that conclusion.