Lewandowski says video of him saying ‘womp womp’ about girl with Down syndrome is fake news – ThinkProgress

Apart from my point above being about politicians who make a statement on record, then get confronted with their statement (held accountable for a lie), call it lies and "fakenews" on their turn, while there is obvious proof they made those remarks. I'll engage in this debate a bit: > I've always found it funny the most predominantly anti-gun white people live in the whitest areas and countries. When people from the UK, Canada, or Australia criticize US gun laws I can't help but laugh. Your countries are roughly 90% white and don't actually have free speech. I've always found it funny it's only Americans from predominantly white rural areas that stampede over any opinion differing from them towards gunlaws or any reasonable critisism/ discussion on them..... I agree with the point @pmya makes somewhere in these threads. We live in countries where we decided that having guns among general population is a bad idea. Guns are illegal (very hard) to get, gun possession has harsh penalties and police very actively pursue illegal guns or sightings of them. There are very, very few guns among our population, which is our normal state. Imagining gun distribution among our population is an abnormal idea dismissed upon by an overwhelming vast majority. I mean it isn't even an issue on the political agenda for any political party in these parts. You live in a country with an abundance of guns and some sort of weird lovestory /fetish with them. Restricting guns in your normality would make you "vulnerable", as others would be a threat due to having the advantage, cause "guns are everywhere" and so automatically there are "threats". With such an abundance of guns, tis culture and guncontrol being a massive political issue, its an abnormality for you to think about restricting access. Not judging or anything just trying to sketch viewpoints, as it is generally incredibly difficult to have a proper constructive conversation with Muricans about this issue. As our reference points are completely different and Muricans tend to go from 0-100 in an eyewink over this.