In America, "buying a machine gun is often easier than getting a driver's license."
Note: this article is from Der Spiegal Online and is also on Drudge
Posted on 04/17/2007 7:27:54 AM PDT by woofie
With a view to Monday's deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, European newspapers are blaming the lack of gun control measures in the United States and implying that Charlton Heston is indirectly responsible for the scope of the killings.
Across the continent on Tuesday, European media rubber-neck at Monday's massacre in the United States. Most seem to agree about one thing: The shooting at Virginia Tech is the result of America's woeful lack of serious gun control laws. In the strongest editorialized image of the day, German cable news broadcaster NTV flashed an image of the former head of the National Rifle Association, the US gun lobby: In other words, blame rifle-wielding Charlton Heston for the 33 dead.
Papers reserve their sharpest criticism for the 2004 expiration of a 10-year ban on semi-automatic weapons under the then Republican-controlled Congress. Others comment on the pro-gun lobbying activities of Heston's NRA. Some papers also draw analogies between school shootings and Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers.
British daily The Independent writes:
"The passionate feelings of the gun lobby may be traced to the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, enshrining 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms'. Although the provision stems from the times when 'well regulated militias' were deemed necessary to protect against a British attempt to regain the lost colonies, it is the default position of any argument against greater gun control here."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
In America, "buying a machine gun is often easier than getting a driver's license."
Note: this article is from Der Spiegal Online and is also on Drudge
Heston is a good man. How dare they show their stupidly with such outlandish nonsense. Heston is not able to defend himself but hopefully others will - with FACTS, not FEELINGS. States with carry laws have a LOWER CRIME RATE and in part THANKS to HESTON. FEELINGS are NOT FACTS.
Heston is a good man. How dare they show their stupidly with such outlandish nonsense. Heston is not able to defend himself but hopefully others will - with FACTS, not FEELINGS. States with carry laws have a LOWER CRIME RATE and in part THANKS to HESTON. FEELINGS are NOT FACTS.
Headline error
Blaming Charlton Heston (EUROPEAN PRESS REACTIONS)
Blaming Charlton Heston (EURARABIA PRESS REACTIONS)
That's not exactly right.
Prejudice. Analysis before the disclosure of facts is worthless.
It’s the media’s fault. These guys do it for the publicity and notareity. We’ve always had guns in this country. The problem of shooting sprees is a relatively new one, that has pretty much tracked the growth of the instantaneous media.
They blame Americans for the bombings in the middle east as well.
To some, it is always our fault.
Don't come crying to us when the weapons-touting Muslims take over your precious country and immediately begin beheading your unarmed dhimmi citizens.
Oh for God’s sake, they need to leave Chuck alone.
They are being overrun by Muslims, and speak from a pathetic, dhimmi position.
(2) The stupid ban on carrying concealed weapons on campus has a direct bearing on the mass murder: VA Tech forbade its students and employees to defend themselves.
(3) When Europeans can guarantee that they are no longer in the business of liquidating entire races of people when the mood strikes their leaders, then they can discuss why a foreign citizen murdered Americans on that campus.
If the Jewish/Israeli professor (the holocaust survivor who blocked the door to save his students) had a Concealed Carry Permit (and could have taken his weapon into the so-called “gun free zone”) the body count would have been three: the first two victims, and the shooter.
Discuss.
Nazis loved gun control... Registration -- the Nazi Paradigm
I have never had to wait four months for my driver's license.
I have never had to submit, in duplicate, an ATF FORM 4 to the NFA Branch to get my driver's license
I have never had to submit, in duplicate, FBI Fingerprint cards to get my driver's license,
I have never had to submit, in duplicate, passport photos of myself to get my driver's license,
I have never had to submit to a $200 or %5.00 tax every time I bought, traded, sold, transfered a car to get my driver's license,
I have never had to wait four months for a background check to get a driver's license,
I have never had to set an appointment with my Chief Law Enforcement to get his "approval" to get my driver's license,
I have never had to buy a multi-thousand dollar security system and monitoring to get my driver's license,
I only wish that buying a machine gun was a easy as getting a driver's license.
To paraphrase esteemed freeper “dead”
America suffers from a terrible lack of fatal soccer riots. Thus, we have no choice but to occassionally pick up a weapon and blow off steam.
That, and, unlike Germany, there has been no official, government-run, genocide program in recent generations in America. That leaves a terrible lack of unguided anger that could have been put to use in offiicial channels.
Even the mere fear that someone might be armed could stop murderers.
europeans need to concentrate on running their own continent, their own european union, and keep their opinions on our stuff to themselves. Nobody here cares what they think about anything, particularly stuff that takes place in the US. I find it particularly offensive that they should state opinions on Charleton Heston. They are completely irrelevant and likely to remain so. Every time they get their tails in cracks, they have to be bailed out - for which they have not the grace to be grateful; they are overtaken by moslems by their own doing and have no clue how to remedy this, and on and on. I hope at least one of them is reading this and can remember it long enough to tell another of his kind. GEEZ!
Roll on, GrandEagle. 100% right, and I have been saying that to anyone who would listen ever since I first heard about this - and before this, too, but particularly now. Thank you for your post.
God, you have a way with words! Excellent!
"I think the reason it happens in America is there's access to weapons -- you can go into a supermarket and get powerful automatic weapons," Keith Ashcroft, a psychologist, told the Press Association.
Shock, Sympathy And Denunciation Of U.S. Gun Laws (British Asks, What Price the Right to Bear Arms?)
Amen. The Euros can fight their next war without us.
The last people on earth that should be piously lecturing us about violence are the Germans.
That's not true at all. If these Euroweenie journalists had bothered to read the writings of the founding fathers, particularly Jefferson and Madison, then they would see that the 2nd Amendment is designed to keep the American populace armed in the event that the government should ever become a dictatorship, giving the people the means with which to protect democracy, as well as their individual persons and their families.
I’m not one who is known for using such language, but I’ll be darn if I can think of a better way to put it. - Well Said my FRiend, well said.
Well said ...thanks ~P~
I heard the best analagy of all time on the radio today about more gun control laws.
They said “The drug laws have kept drugs off the street so well haven’t they?”
I’ve heard many times in the European press we can buy guns at the grocery store.
Never saw them.
No worries, by 6PM the Eurotrash and the Democrats will find a way to blame President Bush, Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney.
DeLay is a long shot, but you can’t discount that come to think of it.
A fact I doubt the main stream media is aware of.
They certainly won’t admit it now even if they were aware of it. They have a selective admiration society.
BTW, has Sharpton or ole Jessie aplogized to the Duke LaCross players for the hell they put them through?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“If the Jewish/Israeli professor (the holocaust survivor who blocked the door to save his students) had a Concealed Carry Permit (and could have taken his weapon into the so-called “gun free zone”) the body count would have been three: the first two victims, and the shooter.
Discuss.”
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Good point. However, I remember watching Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel on PBS several years ago. He said he believed in gun control. That statement surprised me, considering what he saw and experienced at the death camp.
We are Americans. The right to keep and bear arms is a RIGHT not a privilege. We own guns because we can.
If some liberal Euro-weenie wants to whine, too damn bad.
Get your stinking paws off of me, you d@mn dirty euro-weenie!!!
I watched BBC News tonight, and it made me ill.
The reporters gave platitudes about sympathy, but peppered their comments with contempt for America. Instead of comfort, they chided America for a "Wild West" culture and insulted our Freedom.
I lived in Europe for four years, and there is much about it I enjoyed. But Europe's biggest problem is this:
- it is a continent that has contempt for God.
A culture that has thrown out God has no concept of what Good is, or what Evil is capable of.
These Euro-peon worms are intellectual maggots compared to Heston. Let them go back to studying the Koran like good little Dhimmis.
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