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@acpguy: No, I did not pick two countries at random. You picked Norway, and I responded to that. The other one was a bonus.
As a matter of fact, Norway has 488,500 registered hunters. Norway's population is 5M. That is 10% of the total population.
Let's compare this to the US. We have 13.7M hunters out of a population of 320M. That is 4.3% of the total population.
This means that Norway has more than twice, per capita, hunters, than the US. Contrary to your claim, affordability is not an issue.
I don't know why you would bring up gun ranges. They are not part of the conversation, but your information is wrong. The other "inaccuracy", is that Kyle Lamb is NOT the only fatality ever on gun range. While rare, they do occur. In 2009, a woman walked into a Florida gun range with her son. She waited until he was firing, shot him in the head, and then killed herself. At the gun range down the street from where I live, a guy walked in, rented a gun and killed himself. Over the years, there have been quite a few fatalities at gun ranges. There are no checks at all. Not once was I asked for anything more than a driver license, before handing me a gun and ammunition.
It is however, real weird for you to pick gun ownership as the measuring stick for freedom. I would have picked freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. You know, like a civilized individual.
As to your remaining false claim, and that is Belgium, Norway Denmark, and to some degree France, banning cartoons that may offend Muslim, well that is false. The cartoons Muslims consider offensive, appeared in Norway's, Denmark's and Belgium's papers, and obviously France. The media in these countries is free to publish anything they want. There are some restrictions in some European countries on Nazi propaganda, but that's about it. There is no such ban on Nazi propaganda in the US, and it seems as if the Nazis seem to appear (not exclusively of course), at the same venues Tea Partiers, and gun lobbyists appear it (at least in the part of the country I am from, the Northwest. They certainly were at the last Trump rally, in Lynden, Washington. - Not saying that Trump encouraged it, but that's what ended up showing up).
As a matter of fact, Norway has 488,500 registered hunters. Norway's population is 5M. That is 10% of the total population.
Let's compare this to the US. We have 13.7M hunters out of a population of 320M. That is 4.3% of the total population.
This means that Norway has more than twice, per capita, hunters, than the US. Contrary to your claim, affordability is not an issue.
I don't know why you would bring up gun ranges. They are not part of the conversation, but your information is wrong. The other "inaccuracy", is that Kyle Lamb is NOT the only fatality ever on gun range. While rare, they do occur. In 2009, a woman walked into a Florida gun range with her son. She waited until he was firing, shot him in the head, and then killed herself. At the gun range down the street from where I live, a guy walked in, rented a gun and killed himself. Over the years, there have been quite a few fatalities at gun ranges. There are no checks at all. Not once was I asked for anything more than a driver license, before handing me a gun and ammunition.
It is however, real weird for you to pick gun ownership as the measuring stick for freedom. I would have picked freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. You know, like a civilized individual.
As to your remaining false claim, and that is Belgium, Norway Denmark, and to some degree France, banning cartoons that may offend Muslim, well that is false. The cartoons Muslims consider offensive, appeared in Norway's, Denmark's and Belgium's papers, and obviously France. The media in these countries is free to publish anything they want. There are some restrictions in some European countries on Nazi propaganda, but that's about it. There is no such ban on Nazi propaganda in the US, and it seems as if the Nazis seem to appear (not exclusively of course), at the same venues Tea Partiers, and gun lobbyists appear it (at least in the part of the country I am from, the Northwest. They certainly were at the last Trump rally, in Lynden, Washington. - Not saying that Trump encouraged it, but that's what ended up showing up).