12-16-2012, 02:06 AM
Ah, just got your point, Six.
I understand that you mean since Everyone (millions) in Iraq and Afghanistan has guns and only (not to minimize) 1,000 US Armed Service persons were killed there in 2008, then openly armed equates to a polite and safe society.
I can't draw the same conclusion from those sets of facts since the millions you cited is the total of the local populations of those countries, as compared to only around 150,000 US military persons stationed there. Plus, I don't view Afghanistan or Iraq as polite and safe societies. But, I do now see what you were intimating.
I understand that you mean since Everyone (millions) in Iraq and Afghanistan has guns and only (not to minimize) 1,000 US Armed Service persons were killed there in 2008, then openly armed equates to a polite and safe society.
I can't draw the same conclusion from those sets of facts since the millions you cited is the total of the local populations of those countries, as compared to only around 150,000 US military persons stationed there. Plus, I don't view Afghanistan or Iraq as polite and safe societies. But, I do now see what you were intimating.