# Americans and their guns.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-and-their-guns/472354 "2008-11-12T15:34:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-and-their-guns/472354/89 "2008-11-13T23:18:28Z")

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I forgot which thread I was in and posted this over [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10444905&postcount=252)

> [@Guns are not designed to kill people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-are-not-designed-to-kill-people/471402/252):
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> While we’re waiting for evidence that general military service pistols did not exist during the Revolutionary War, let me pose a question:
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> Why do foreigners give a damn what we in America do with our guns?
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> I mean, with folks in Canada, I can understand; we have a ~3,000 mile common border, and could conceivably be a source of illicit arms to Canadian criminal elements via smuggling and such.
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> But England? France? Japan?
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> Why does it matter a whit to any country that doesn’t have a border with us what we do, domestically, with firearms?

This isn’t snark; I’m seriously curious, and want to know, why people in distant countries are so interested in Americans and their guns.

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