And they eat lots of fatty food too...
David Frum is joking, right?
I will never take Europeans seriously again (not that I took them so seriously in the first place) when they complain about the American gun lobby. I just discovered that the local tobacconist in the small touristy French town in which we are currently stopping has sold my 13-year-old son and his 10-year old cousin 25 Euros worth of roman candles, bottle rockets, firecrackers, and miniature explosives shaped like tanks. And a lighter. Parfaitment legal.
Ohmigod, the gun lobby gets more pathetic by the day.
Face up to facts - gun related deaths are an order of magnitude higher in the US than in any other major industrialised country. Why? Mass ownership of guns.
I, along with most of the rest of the world, quite simply cannot understand why reasonable, articulate, sensible people, with smart ideas and practical policies on a range of issues, seem to have a bit of their brain missing when it comes to the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: Panenka'sChip | July 13, 2007 at 03:57 PM
I think it's fair to say that the bottom of the barrel has now been so heavily scraped that we can begin to see the grass beneath poking through.
Posted by: Anthony C | July 13, 2007 at 04:34 PM
It doesn't matter because the kids failed to purchase matches.
Posted by: Hellmut | July 14, 2007 at 04:20 AM
Interesting.
Since I am German, I am not able to answer whether Frum was joking or not.
I have posted a link on my blog:
http://atlanticreview.org/archives/756-Pro-Americanism.html
Posted by: Joerg - Atlantic Review | July 26, 2007 at 08:32 AM