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Sidelock
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Dickens had it well.
..."one people, divided by a common language."
Or something close to that.
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Sidelock
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I have served with Brits in combat in Desert Storm, OIF in Iraq and OEF in Afghanistan and can only think good things.
I love many things British, their guns, their houses, and lots of other stuff. We do have a great deal in common. However we are still different peoples sprouted from a common source we have different values.
Traditional American views of personal freedom and limited government while sprouting in England and through the Scottish Enlightenment are different from the current United Kingdom view.
I am always aware of the dangers of oversimplification on commonalities, while accepting they do bring us together.
As a Kansan who loves Doubleguns and Bird Dog I am aware that I have much in common and yet still have differences from a New Yorker who hunts. I have much in common with my fellow shooter from the UK and probably a few more differences.
Michael Dittamo
Topeka, KS
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Sidelock
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Obama for 8 years or George III for 60.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Huh?
This is the mind numbing price of living in a state of confusion.
Somewhere north of the OH border...
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Sidelock
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Point: OUR tyrants are term limited.
Goofball...
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Sidelock
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"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here." Captain John Parker, to his Minute Men on Lexington Green, April 19, 1775.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Sidelock
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That's one thing about going to America that I like is that everyone is helpful and friendly; at least the ones I met were. The only obstacle is the Immigration Officers; they don't half mess we British about. Once in it's o.k. though. Canadians are friendly too of couse. All their immigration are worried about is if we have visited a farm recently or brought any seeds in. U.S. Immigration want to know things like if we were ever a member of the Nazi Party between 1933 and 1945. Some of the questions are a real hoot. Lagopus.....
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Of course it would be profiling if they asked if you're a muslim
Or wearing a suicide belt.
Or come from some oddball place in southern Russia.
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According to my news papers "What happened to day in history" column , The first shots were fired in what we regarded as police action against rebel colonists and you call The war of independence .
Long time ago so I guess we can forgive you for your impudence . We should have known it was a mistake to let you have guns . Happy day ! I love the good natured teasing we often get from our cousins. No need to get a thin skin, they're on our side and we on theirs. I just can't stand them damn New Jersey Americans fat mouthin' the fierce fighters of the Southern Liberation Front in the War of Union Agression. They also ridicule the way we talk. I wonder how many Americans remember the importance of the date?
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We should not have declared independence until we lured James Purdey and Thomas Boss over here. Our loss. 
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