"Chookie" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

I've been accused of being a left wing pinko in misc.rural more times
than
I've had a hot dinner. If I wrote or said the same think either here or
in
any group in Oz it wouldn't even raise a flicker of comment about my
political affiliations. To Yanks it would seem I do appear to be a
raging
leftie, but to any others in the western world I'd be middle of the road
(which my voting history of everything from Country Party to Labor [and
not
in a linear fashion, but in a swinging voter fashion] would indicate to
anyone with half a brain).

I find many Yanks to be very exasperating.

LOL, you too?

:-)) Prolly something all of us have in common when we come in contact with
them on usenet :-)))))

I'm in the midst of a stoush on gun control atm.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt :-)) I've had the "you Ossies are
sheeple letting your govt take your guns off yoo" a lot. They don't (or
won't) try to understand that the gun buy back was popularly supported, that
guns aren't part of our culture like they are in the US, that most
Australians don't fear for their lives etc, etc and nor will they understand
that I actually increased my gun ownership after the buyback went into
operation. They know better about our gun laws that I do as a) a resident
of this country, b) a licenced gun owner and c) a gun buyer after the buy
back went into operation. No wonder so many of them give me the poops.

Talk about
black-and-white mindsets -- suggesting that you should prevent nutcases
and
boofheads from getting weapons makes me a pinko who wants to strip away
their
Right To Bear Arms.

Yep (in their weird wee minds).

Which of itself tends to make me think that the pro-gun
types in the US ARE all nuts in the first place. Worse, they are
*terrified*
of each other. The only thing worse than a yank gun-nut is a frightened
yank
gun-nut.

Indeed. Thier fear of each other is palpable. I would hate to live in the
US given the attitudes they express but they can't see it.

Give 'em heaps!