Well, Merrill, there are other places that are nice, I wouldn't want to immigrate to DK. Way back when I used to be stationed in Flensburg, just across the border from Denmark, I thought it was a nice country, Mermaid, Tivoli and all, but nothing above the norm. (I wore a white hat, I was one of the good guys ;) John judges the US from a viewpoint of Florida or whatever, not exactly the heartland of the country. Maybe if he experienced the Midwest he would think differently.
Walter PS: PR has one of the strictest gun laws, but murder rates are higher than New York City, everybody seems to have a gun, mostly because of the drug traffic. I keep a loaded S&W in my bedroom in Illinois, but have no guns in PR - go figure... maybe it's because of the state of mind (say:manana) makes you feel more at ease. Still trying to find a snow shovels in the Virgins (US, British or Spanish) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ballantyne, Merrill To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Weapons aboard John you must be Danish- I would love to move to Denmark- but their immigration laws are so incredibly restrictive..It is a far safer country than any of the Americas (yes, even Canada) and maybe you would have a different perspective if lived here. Just check out the crime stats. So in a sense, you are correct- if everyone could move to Denmark, no one would need guns. But alas, Denmark won't let us. One thing that I find funny is that your use of the term 'European.' You lump everyone together as if they were a homogeneous cultural group. You must mean only Norway, Sweden and Denmark, because many other Europeans are decidedly undiplomatic, uncompromising, and even downright volatile, which is exactly why I like them. -Merrill _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
