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Harry Potter and gun control

Near the beginning of “The Goblet of Fire” a group of death eaters attacks a camp filled with magical people who came to watch the Quidditch World Cup.

Here is the thing: EVERY ONE of those people was armed.  All of them.  Even the kids, most of them.  You have perhaps a dozen people attacking thousands.  How is it that everyone ran away?

How is it that most people failed to note this?  It is because we expect OTHER PEOPLE, professionals, to defend us, at least in Britain.

We never see ANY American warlocks and witches in any Harry Potter movies, but they exist.  Let us transpose this World Cup to Houston, Texas.  Those death eaters would have gotten their asses fried.

America is unique in the world, in many ways.  We do not need to look to other nations as to how to do things.  They have tyranny and oppression down pat.  Just 60 some-odd years ago Britain kept hundreds of millions of people in thralldom.  The French still held many colonies, from which they extracted taxes, cheap labor, and cut rate prices on commodities.

The list goes on.  We may be coarse by Continental standards, and more ignorant than we should be, but if we look across either ocean the most educated people have lost God, common sense, and faith in humanity, which we still retain in large numbers, to our benefit.