I usually post US and Canadian holidays and May 5th for Mexico.

 

A cursory Google search for 2019 - 2022 does not show congratulations from the British Prime Minister to the American people on Independence Day. The reason is clear.
Putin congratulated Trump a couple of times when he was president, but Biden was not honored.
This year, Putin pointedly will not congratulate Biden on Independence Day. What to do, war.
It doesn't matter, I'm not Putin - I can.
I congratulate you guys on Independence Day. I know it's a big holiday for you. And I know you remember what this day is about and how your ancestors fought for their freedom.
Once your ancestors, today other peoples also take up arms. This is our life, and this will always be, will not end.
There is no independence day in Russia, Russia as a single state has never been under the heel. But of course there were hard times when we had to break the back of the invaders. Every century, once or twice.

 

Yeah and I can guarantee that our freedom was not won with harsh words and rhetoric.Apparently people exercising their constitutional right is illogical? I should remind people that every freedom they enjoy today was because of someones skill with a weapon.As sad as that is it is the truth.I thank God my Uncle knew how to use his when he stormed that beach in the South Pacific.
And those fireworks you hear tonight are not symbolic of a disarmed population capitulating to tyranny.

 

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I do not know what you could be referring to other than my comment, “Some [emphasis added] do, especially insecure males who feel emasculated by contemporary culture and subconsciously seek to reclaim their manhood …[by buying]… guns that serve them no rational purpose.”

It would be better not to parse a comment for a point of potential disagreement and then reframing it into something that wasn’t said unless the goal is to pick a fight. For the record, as a American citizen I defend the Constitution including the the second amendment. But having a right to keep and bear arms does not not make every acquisition rational. We now have some 20 million AR-15’s in circulation, and a whole lot of them are owned by people who had no rational reason to buy them, have no idea know how to use them properly, and never will. Also, at the risk of provoking a debate I have no intention of participating in, a weapon acquired for domestic defense is more like to kill or maim a member of the household than an intruder.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-2...ulation-2022-5

You may not have intended a sanctimonious lecturette but that’s what you produced. No one appreciates being talked down to, especially with nothing new. And it begins with a completely false statement. NOT “every freedom [we] enjoy today was because of someones skill with a weapon.” Some were. The freeing of slaves certainly was. But the entire bill rights, including ironically the 2nd amendment, was won not at the point of a gun but through (sometimes civil) discourse along with political sausage-making, and ratified by the states in accordance with the Constitution. (Sadly, we have not achieved constitutional equal rights for women. Maybe someday we can do that. Maybe even without an armed insurrection by women.)

I’m here for what bring us together, not for what divides us. Today in the U.S.A., that is Independence Day, the celebration of the moment of creation of a Democracy of The People, by The People, for The People, each one created equal, by throwing off the shackles of a monarchy. Yes, with arms. And artillery, and guile, and treachery, and diplomacy, and cooperation, and unity. (Yeah, yeah, that’s my sanctimonious lecture.)

Now back to more Fun With HHR’s.

 

This is always a touchy subject.. And one that is not supposed to be discussed on international forum.

 

We are not in the UK. We are Americans and we celebrate this as OUR day of independence.

 

Wow. This thread has made a sharp left turn and gone WAY off into the abyss.

 

Happy birthday America!

 

Happy birthday America.
Don't fight guys. You are all friends and you are all for one.