You are absolutely correct. The difference is that citizens can be trusted with firearms.
OK, a couple of points. These are not this posters comments, they are from a blog. Check the link.
Secondly, I agree with 'most' of the article. Why isn't the treaty equal? We're the US's closets ally, you'd think it would count for something. All this does is play into the hands of the anti-american Guardian crowd's hands. Not good.
Also for those of you unaware,(and I'm getting bored of having to repeat this) we are citizens, infact we're both. The term subject hasn't been used for in the UK for a long long long time. Don't believe me? Check it out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4191613.stm
And all that rubbish about us speaking German if it wasn't for the US. Well thats not entirely true either. Back in the 1970's A unique war game was run at the Military Academy at Sandhurst, which pitted German officers who had planned the real invasion against their former enemies. The result, of what would have happened if Germany had made a combined land and air invasion in 1940 was that in just under three days, the invasion force of 90,000 men would have been decimated. Infact a documentry about Britains wartime defences and the 70's wargame was aired recently. See: THE REAL DAD'S ARMY http://www.ideasfactory.com/whatson4/features/.
Granted, American gold and arms helped us to win WWII. But without the aid, we wouldnt have lost either.
Regards
Anglo