My problem is purely that when I mention where I am from and suggest it’s a nice place to live the very first reply I always get is BUT CAN I CARRY A GUN!?
And when I reply, and try to explain, you need a permit, and a safe place to store a weapon, usually I am told that’s why our gun deaths have gone through the roof. Which isn’t true.
So this time, I didn’t reply directly, I suggested that our demographics were different, our history was different, but that didn’t do it, it still came back to BUT CAN I CARRY A GUN.
For the last time. We are nor a GUN CULTURE. We did not have a civil war, not a wild west, nor a war of independence, and our estimation of ourselves isn’t that we are the best people in the whole wide world, we weren’t brought up with any idea of being exceptional. Just decent, down to earth, hardworking everyday average Aussies.
As for posting on a US forum, why not? It’s open to people from numerous english-speaking countries. Look at your flag line-up sometime.
I see it really is a challenge for you to remain kind in your reply. You did great, until the very end.
Oddly enough, I was informed just tonight that there have been 90 deaths reported in Sydney from the ‘knock out game’, can you give more information on that? I was rather shocked.