Americans still practice ancient methods of weighing stuff in pounds & ounces. What other ancient practices are still in vogue in the USA?

Metric is one HELL of a lot simpler. Everything is in multiples of ten - and the US actually lost a Mars rover due to differences in avoirdupois.

OK, but people are used to what they're used to and life goes on.

The US is far from the only place where citizens own guns.

It's the only Western nation where you don't need a license, or need to register your guns. Switzerland has a higher per capita number of guns than the US - but given that a gap year of National Service after high school is mandatory there, ALL their gun owners are veterans. And the weapons are registered.
If a Swiss is considered mentally unfit for service, or declares him- or herself to be a conscientious objector, they don't get to own a gun. And fair enough.

Good for them.

Gun registry in US is specifically listed as illegal for the gov to create.

Which is why you have, and will continue to have, regular gun massacres.
I'll take Australia, where I can send my grandchildren to school and be relatively certain they will come home again.

Just remember rapes increased after AU took victims defense away. (The rapist knows they do not have a gun) 

They didn't have guns before that, and most rapes in the States go unreported. Rapists were far more likely to be armed than their victims, that's fact.
It's hard for an American to understand the situation. Guns are so much a part of everything you do. Australia has NEVER had a major crush on guns, and even before Port Arthur handguns were as much an oddity here as tanks are on the streets of New York. Legal but weird as snake's suspenders. The vics were never armed, and the CURVE (check the trends, not the raw figures - its why statistics is a science) did NOT change. It was trending upwards well before that and its shape was unaffected before and after gun laws were tightened.
Registering guns (and preventing people who should NOT be permitted within a loud shout of firearms) will not take them away. Did they come to take your car because you registered it?

No a registry does not take them away. But it gives them a list of where to go when they try to take them.  It would be in steps...we do not want all guns just this one...then this kind and so on.  

It does not matter if they carried regularly before...the rapist did not know who was carrying and who was not.....then AU took them (bought them) and the rapists knew they were all unarmed. 

Why is this hard to understand?  AU is the proof that we have always said....if you disarm the public the criminals will just see sitting ducks. 

 

 

 

Notice the source in my link is the Australian government.

The rapists DID know - NOBODY WAS CARRYING. Concealed carry has NEVER been legal in Australia, you can do time for hiding a knife. The trend did not increase, just the raw numbers did. You are ignoring the ABS curve. Deliberately misrepresenting. 
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Again I am quoting verbatim the AU goverment. 

But. Ignoring. The. CURVE.
NOTHING in that government website even SUGGESTS that the gun buyback had anything to do with the increase, as I stated earlier, the trend was curving upward well before that.
That said, most women - especially mothers - will happily trade a SLIGHTLY increased risk of rape over a GREATLY increased risk of having their children murdered because some ape-brained teen hopped up on sleet got an F in science, so brought a gun to school to exact "revenge". I got that from my wife, herself a victim of rape before I met her (well before Port Arthur - she's never owned a handgun either), and now a mother and grandmother.

The point is gov removed guns and your assaults increased.  Spin however you want but those are the facts. 
Of course, your gov is not going to admit it as a cause.  I was surprised they even acknowledged the increase at all. 
I cannot imagine trying to speak for an entire countries women. 

 

  Malizz, do you know of any countries wherein none of the citizens are allowed by law to own guns?
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If a "citizen" is anyone not of the government class ... probably any dictatorship.  

Thanks.

Given that the airplane was invented by Americans, I guess they get to pick which units they use to tell how far they are off the ground.

I think it has more to do with English being the official language of air travel, AND Americans being notoriously lazy when it comes to learning other cultures (thus not learning the metric system).  So everyone is afraid of American pilots getting confused by metric units, even in their own language, and flying in to a mountain or building.

Americans don't speak English. Haven't done for a couple of centuries.