The World's Deadliest Arms

NY Times ^ | August 11, 2003

[new cruelty]

The deadliest weapon in the world today is not a nuclear bomb or an infectious agent, but a machine gun. Small arms kill half a million people a year, picking off American soldiers in Iraq, turning Liberian thugs into powerful warlords and allowing 12-year-olds in eastern Congo to terrorize their neighbors. The ease of obtaining AK-47's helps turn grievances into wars.

Controlling small arms is complex. Guns are easily concealed, trading and retrading in a quasi-legal netherworld. ...

THIS IS AN EXCERPT

[dvan]

I can assume that this will relate to Gun Control in the U.S. sooner or later.

[maica]

Travis McGee Posting from a remote location.

[11B3]

What utter liberal BS!! This one needs a serious barf alert! Evidently Koffi has been hanging out at the Slimes these days pushing his agenda (which matches the NYT's agenda perfectly). Yeah, the US should tell Russia and China to stop selling AK's to everyone. ROFLMAO! This author is a complete idiot - or fresh out of college with no worldly experience.

[The Old Hoosier]

If these people were consistent, they'd call for re-colonization of war-torn African nations.

[hayfried]

I imagine this is the hard left's back door to gun confiscation in America -- rally people around global gun control by mentioning places like Liberia, but omit the fact that any global gun control agreement would encompass the US as well.

I can just hear the leftist demagogues now: "Under the UN gun control agreement, you can't legally buy < insert the left's demon gun du jour> in < insert third world sh*thole>, but you can buy it right here in America."

[King Prout]

bang!

[WTSand]

Hmmm? No byline. Wonder why no one wants their name on this article? Hands down,the dumbest thing I've read this month,but it's early.

[new cruelty]

I noticed that as well. NYT had no byline listed.

[hayfried]

Well, I usually find it difficult to distinguish between a Times editorials and news articles, but I think this is from the editorial pages, which typically have no byline.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I thought this was going to be a shopping list for my next gun show.

[new cruelty]

Hehe... that would have been more entertaining at least.

[Howie]

"That is how the Taliban and the rebels in Liberia ended up with American weapons. "

What a crock! I have yet to see one of those doped up bastards on TV with an American rifle! They seem to have everything else.

[Bedford Forrest]

It is an exquisite fantasy of many Real Americans and righteous Christians that 20 or 30 of these "Liberian thugs", armed with their select fire AKs and knapsacks full of loaded 30rd magazines, with brains afire on ganja, do suddenly appear in the press rooms and the executive bordellos [mauve, to be precise] of the NY Slimes for the purpose of striking, however inadvertently, many blows in the cause of freedom. And why so - because for at least the past eight decades the NY Slimes has been an evil and implacable foe of the country and its foundational principles and freedoms. From the Stalinist poodle and degenerate Duranty on down to Jill the Shill ABRAMSON [perpetrator of the attempted lynch job on Justice Clarence Thomas] the Slimes never ceases to expand upon its endless corruptions of the truth. But let not thine hearts be troubled, good people, the NY Slimes has a terminal case of the dwindles and it doesn't seem that there is much they can do to stop it. For which, I say, Thank you Lord and none too soon.

[elbucko]

From the Stalinist poodle and degenerate Duranty.... ...the Slimes never ceases to expand upon its endless corruptions of the truth.

Well said. your entire post was a bulls eye.

[John Will]

What happend to beating people with sticks.

[Bedford Forrest]

"Well said. your entire post was a bulls eye."

Thank you, Sir, if I had more time I could elaborate. For now I will only say that it is long past time that Real Americans come to accept the fact that many elements among us hate us, our country, our Constitution, and any system, ours paramount, whose very essence and bedrock is freedom. We must identify these people and drop the PC pretense that their "patriotism" must never be questioned. Are Senators Fyneslyme, Sarbanes, Corzyne, Puff Daschle, Biden, Leaky & the Chappy Scuba Driver [Kennedy], inter alia, patriots???? Of course not. Their ideological and moral corruption is absolutely indistinguishable from that of an Alger Hiss, either Klinton, either Rosenburg, Armand Hammer, J. Robert Oppenheimer or a Pinch Sulzberger. Or Ichabod Kerry, or Dr. Dean or Dan Blather or Cronkite or Ninny Pokentu%d - Sakes alive, the list is truly endless, but you get the idea. The point being, that when you observe or listen to these people, place them in their proper context, if you catch my drift.

[blackbirdphleps]

Oh, joy!
Bang! Bang! Die you stinky sunk!
Oh, well I guess I'll just use the live trap to catch that stinky sunk. Now what am I going to do with a live sunk in the live trap.
Can't let it out, Or I will stink for weeks.
Can't shoot it don't have a gun.
Could hit it over the head with a bat?
Can I hit it over the head before it sprays me?
Oh no that won't work it's upset for being in a cage and spraying anything getting ten feet around it.
How long does it take for it to die of thirst?

GIVE ME A DAMN GUN!!!! SO I CAN KILL THE STINKY SUNK ONE HUNDRED FEET AWAY UP WIND FROM THE STINKY SUNK!!!!!

[Puppage]

The ease of obtaining AK-47's helps turn grievances into wars

Of course....EVERYONE knows that before the AK's were invented there WERE NO WARS.

BEHOLD! THE MIND OF THE DEFENSELESS.

[lavaroise]

Germs have killed far many more than guns... from AIDS spreading gays to moskitos, the deadliest of all is "love" and "mother" nature.