That is one of the things I'm most jealous of. I'd love to be able to carry.

Besides, when talking about that potential threat Finland may have from Russia - which probably would have been pretty non-existent these days if we hadn't joined NATO, but Russia has gone off the rails before in history so no guarantees on the long run - it would, to me at least, make more sense if we were a nation where most people own guns and know how to use them, and are used to freedom, thus making the potential control of our population by an invader look difficult and at the same time maybe not worth the bother, than joining NATO, thus turning us into a potential threat, while having a population that is now used to very tight government control, does.

We were able to withstand Soviet Union as well as we did during Winter War probably mostly because back then we HAD a lot more men who had grown up using guns (plus doing hard physical labor so in good shape), the gun laws here used to be more tolerable even when I was a teenager some 40 years ago, but they are now idiotically tight. Simo Häyhä was somebody who had been shooting his whole damn life, I highly doubt we have anybody like him anymore in this country (yes we lost anyway, but at least it wasn't a complete loss).

That is one of the things I'm most jealous of. I'd love to be able to carry.

Besides, when talking about that potential threat Finland may have from Russia - which probably would have been pretty non-existent these days if we hadn't joined NATO, but Russia has gone off the rails before in history so no guarantees on the long run - it would, to me at least, make more sense if we were a nation where most people own guns and know how to use them, and are used to freedom, thus making the potential control of our population by an invader look difficult and at the same time maybe not worth the bother, than joining NATO, thus turning us into a potential threat, while having a population that is now used to very tight government control, does.

We were able to withstand Soviet Union as well as we did during Winter War probably mostly because back then we HAD a lot more men who had grown up using guns (plus doing hard physical labor so in good shape), the gun laws here used to be a lot more tolerable even when I was a teenager some 40 years ago, but they are now idiotically tight. Simo Häyhä was somebody who had been shooting his whole damn life, I highly doubt we have anybody like him anymore in this country (yes we lost anyway, but at least it wasn't a complete loss).

That is one of the things I'm most jealous of. I'd love to be able to carry.

Besides, when talking about that potential threat Finland may have from Russia - which probably would have been pretty non-existent these days if we hadn't joined NATO, but Russia has gone off the rails before in history so no guarantees on the long run - it would, to me at least, make more sense if we were a nation where most people own guns and know how to use them, and are used to freedom, thus making the potential control of our population by an invader look difficult and at the same time maybe not worth the bother, than joining NATO, thus turning us into a potential threat, while having a population that is now used to very tight government control, does.

We were able to withstand Soviet Union as well as we did during Winter War probably mostly because back then we HAD a lot more men who had grown up using guns (plus doing hard physical labor so in good shape), the gun laws here used to be a lot more tolerable even when I was a teenager some 40 years ago, but they are now idiotically tight. Simo Häyhä was somebody who had been shooting his whole damn life, I highly doubt we have anybody like him anymore in this country.