And the all important... CYA - Cover Your Ass   (Financial/Law Term) 

Good effort indeed! I think this will be very helpful to a lot of newcomers and I urge all of them to read through it. It does get tiring reading through forums where people don't know what they're talking about.

If you dismiss America's WWII struggle and sacrifice to defeat fascism as if they were criminals, your comments don't deserve any response. If you refer to the more recent administration, then you should be more specific.

Did you want me to be preemptively critical?

That is just ignorant absolutism in response to the intelligent and rational comments by imanikin.

Agreed! Yet, those same parts of the world are not willing to kick the US military out of their territory, because the latter allow them to have miniscule "defense" budgets, and the US bases in their countries transfer considerable US taxpayer money into their local economies.

So, in deeds rather than words, those nations DO want to continue to "mooch" off the American taxpayer to police their regions of the world, at a profit rather than expense to the former. 

The point is, it's absurd to expect real "gun-free zones" in a war nation with the biggest military-industrial complex in the world.

I think you don't see the big picture either. America has been a war nation for a century, which continues to be the biggest arms exporter in the world, and continues to provide free defense capabilities for most of Europe and much of the Far East.

Without its willingness to resort to violence on behalf of others, your country and most of Europe would probably still be provinces of the Third Reich, and most of the Far East a part of the Japanese Empire. More recently NATO (which really means US military) interventions in places like Serbia and Libya would not have been possible without American support and propensity for solutions through superior firepower...

That kind of willingness to go to war cannot come from a relatively pacifist society like yours. American populace has always been relatively well-armed.

Europeans and other critics of American gun culture can't have their cake and eat it too; they can't expect American soldiers to go conduct violence in other countries on behalf of Europe/NATO, and then return to their own home land and disarm to the point that they can't even protect themselves and their children in their home, local movie theater, at a school. It's too much of a mindset change for rational citizens and soldiers of a warrior nation to make.

What i mean about the American way with guns was best said by some Texas businessman/politician; i can't find the exact quote, but it was something to the effect that "When I was a kid in Texas, all the kids had guns. We just didn't bring them to school!"

You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.
Yeah! Every time somebody get shot we’d say, ‘Damn, he must have done something ... Shit, he’s got fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his ass.’
And people would think before they killed somebody if a bullet cost five thousand dollars. ‘Man I would blow your fucking head off…if I could afford it.’ ‘I’m gonna get me another job, I’m going to start saving some money, and you’re a dead man.

Probably wont, but the accident rate will.

Statistics doesn't really provide prove of that. The only thing you would see that poorer regions have more crimes than wealthier regions.

Grammar error under 'Node' definition. Just nitpicking to meet my 5 posts

I always heard it as GIYF - Google It You Fuck!

Nobody have to cash out via Euro.  Users can cash out bitcoins any time at no fee, and sell elsewhere for whatever currency they like.