Originally Posted By: Astro14
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
At the start of WWII, with NRA assistance, hundreds of thousands of firearms were collected and sent to the UK for home defense against a German invasion. After the war it was back to business as usual over there.
Defenseless as the war started...the British Home Guard received hundreds of thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition as donations from the citizens of the U.S. The invasion never happened.
So, after the war, they destroyed most of the firearms that were donated. A few were returned to the generous folks that sent them.
Dramatically proving that ideology isn't influenced by facts or experience.
Imagine what might have happened if the USA was disarmed at the time.
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
At the start of WWII, with NRA assistance, hundreds of thousands of firearms were collected and sent to the UK for home defense against a German invasion. After the war it was back to business as usual over there.
Defenseless as the war started...the British Home Guard received hundreds of thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition as donations from the citizens of the U.S. The invasion never happened.
So, after the war, they destroyed most of the firearms that were donated. A few were returned to the generous folks that sent them.
Dramatically proving that ideology isn't influenced by facts or experience.
Imagine what might have happened if the USA was disarmed at the time.