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jon357   
13 Jan 2014
UK, Ireland / How has Polish immigration into the UK helped Poland? [48]

Also, it is no fantasy to say Polish immigrants usually work in low class jobs. It's a fact.

That's part of the immigrant experience - very few suddenly find members of the native population resigning their jobs as judges, finance directors, town planners, media consultants, civil engineers, bishops etc to make way for a guy from a village who left home in search of work.

The only exceptions are academia, medicine and any field where there is a shortage of locals. Merit rarely comes into it.
jon357   
12 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I corrected a false premise with the correct answer. Crime rates in certain communities are high because of government dependency programs.

No. You rather ineffectively tried to introduce a red herring. There are no significant crime issues with minority communities in Poland.

So you oppose resistance fighters who used guns to fight Nazis.

Perhaps you didn't notice that we aren't talking about the wartime Polish Army. Despite your suggestion that householders in occupied territory might have used guns to repel someone who came knocking - pure fantasy land. We are talking about whether or not the law should be changed. The thread title makes that clear.
jon357   
12 Jan 2014
Life / Do Poles have a problem understanding American English? [76]

American English is more articulated and makes far less use of liason than British English.

I suppose it depends very much which American English (as you mention the Inland North accent) - as well as the speakers own speech patterns.
jon357   
11 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

The government has exacerbated conditions within minority communities
You continue to ignore the fact that non minority communities do not contribute substantially to a "high murder rate"

A total irrelevance. As you say the ław should be the same for all.

I doubt if Poles want to forget that 20% of their population was lost

Nobody forgets. Yet it's never led to a gun lobby. In Poland we just don't want them around.

Why?

If you need to ask why, then you are truly naive. That or disingenuous. I wonder what you think would have happened to someone between 1939 if they fired a gun when the knock on the door came.
jon357   
11 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

The emphasis should be on criminals who obtain guns illegally as well as on the mentally ill.

'The emphasis' obviously isn't working very well. You've had 200 years of governments, 200 years of easy availability of guns and still you have a high murder rate. Whatever your 'emphasis' is, you've clearly failed badly at it.

It is high in minority communities.

So what? Unless you propose different laws for 'minority communities' which as those 'minority communities' become the majority may very well rebound on you.

As was true in August 1939. The next (almost) 6 years brought about a big demand for guns

Don't make me laugh! That was a world war 70 years ago! And a time when a homeowner shooting at an intruder would have been a very, very bad idea.
jon357   
10 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Right on

Eloquent as ever.

do you really want to believe that there has been some physical brain change? (there's a joke in there somewhere lol)

Some scientists certainly suspect that

Many people in Chicago have saved their belongings

And how many innocent people in your country (or just Chicago) have been shot dead? No accident that the murder rate is so high.

Fortunately, in Poland we don't want easily available guns and there is no significant lobby for that.
jon357   
10 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

If anything it's conservatives who are ruled by their emotions and the rest of us by what is sensible:
telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8228192/Political-views-hard-wired-into-your-brain.html

Interesting though that you use the phrase 'do gooders' disparagingly. One would hope you don't prefer 'do badders'.
jon357   
6 Jan 2014
Love / Questions about Polish Men - flirting, cheating, liking? [44]

Cheating seems to be a bit less unacceptable in PL than it is in the UK. Flirting is normal; not unusual for married people to do it. The third question is anybody's guess however Polish men (hard to generalise and as Ironside says, not everyone is the same) have quite fragile egos and for many, how things look is as important as how things are.
jon357   
5 Jan 2014
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

I was told my ancestors on my Great Grandfather's side came from Eastern Europe so I am doubtful that any of his ancestors could have been from a place so Western in Europe as 'Düren.'

Not that far at all and plenty of movement between the two places over the centuries. But nevertheless, spellings change and there's certainly a surname Zirwen. Not Polish though.

There's also a Polish word

zerwać

, to break off, split, renounce etc and it could have come from that.
jon357   
1 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

then owning guns makes no difference

Ah, the tea party reactionaries love to avoid the truth. Fortunately we don't have so many in Europe.

Easy availability of guns does nothing at all to protect and does everything to increase the murder rate.
jon357   
1 Jan 2014
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Heh,heh,heh, you just refuted your case for gun control. Reread your comment and figure it out.

Hardly.

Despite all your homeowners being able to protect themselves, crime rates are higher where you are.

And gun crimes are very, very, common.
jon357   
31 Dec 2013
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

you cannot say something like that and leave it there.

Seems pretty sef-explanatory, I-S.

I don't find Polish people horrible

What, all of them?
jon357   
29 Dec 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I've previously pointed out to you (evidently it didn't take) that guns are made for hunting, sporting such as target practice,

So are bows and arrows for that matter - yet the gun shops in countries where they exist - tend to stock the most lethal.

Fortunately in Poland, people just don't want them.
jon357   
27 Dec 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I enjoy target practice and used to enjoy occasional hunting too.

What I don't like, is when I look at the newspaper and there's a sad item - very often from your fine country. I don't think it's a 'big government' thing. Just common sense to make sure that some of these nuts don't get guns.
jon357   
27 Dec 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

A nuclear bomb indeed.

And what about all those steps in between? Starts with a revolver, then why not a semi-automatic, then what comes next?

No reason for the public to buy offensive weapons and fortunately no great will to do that here in PL.