Posted on 12/19/2012 7:34:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Many of the other mentioned countries have relied on the USA for defense over the years.
Well, the USA may bristle with guns, but mine were lost in that rragic canoe accident.
Look at this sloppy lard-ass freak and read his history, why even reply / react to him?
The same reason Americans have so many cars, boats, ATVs, computers, RVs, second homes, big screen TVs and college educations.
Because they are our Liberty Teeth and the fact that the last defense against tyranny is an armed citizenry.
Other countries use more primitive tools to murder.
Conservative estimate for TX is 2 privately owned guns for every man woman and child in the state. Some families have none. Others many.
One word... Rwanda.
Our population is far more diverse than any of the other advanced industrial nations.
Harold Meyerson (@HaroldMeyerson) tweeted at 9:29pm - 22 Oct 12:
A tragedy that in a prosperous nation, times are so hard, says Mitt. That’s why we need redistribution.
(https://twitter.com/HaroldMeyerson/status/260568520625123330)
“Why does America have so many guns?”
Because we are citizens, not subjects. Or, because we true Americans understand that guns are real power; not the artificial power created by legislation, or resolutions, or court decisions, or even money, and that the fundamental balance of power between citizens and government must favor the citizens. Perhaps, in light of that, because it would be sub-moronic not to.
Ummm...to protect ourselves from people like you.
So many guns for ultimate protection against federal, state and local givernment..
Sure they can still kill you but you can one or two of them with you..
Many forget how powerful the North Vietnamese were against over whelming forces..
But you also need to propagandize the traitorous members of your family and neighbors as well..
propaganda primer-—>> http://evansayet.com/blog/
It’s a big country. Three days can pass before you even get out of Texas....
A lot of countries like the idea of disarming everybody. And that is one way to reduce gun violence.
Our founders chose a different route — to arm everybody, thus still keeping a level playing field, and discouraging the government from overruning the citizens.
But in recent years, too many of our citizens have lost interest in defending themselves. And because of that, the criminals have gotten a free pass, and are killing more and more people more brazenly.
Because in our system of government, it won’t work if the law-abiding citizens crawl into holes and expect government to do everything. So those people who expect government to change their diapers are all upset that government can’t protect them — so instead of doing the sane thing, they want to disarm everybody.
One thing is clear — we’ll never have a genocide in this country. Because when we see it starting, people will rise up and stop it. Other countries, it was easy to commit atrocities, since the ruling class had all the guns.
If we had concealed carry for airplanes on 9/11, it is likely the death toll suffered by our country would have been less. EVEN WITH NO WEAPONS, one plane was able to overcome their attackers and stop their plane from it’s target.
Mark
And isn't it interesting that the government and the media don't include other people who conducted mass slaughter of civilians, including children, in the discussion. Somehow bombers, like McVeigh, or air hijackers like the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack aren't included. But didn't some evil guys with box cutters kill way more people on 9/11? And didn't McVeigh bomb a day care center in the Murrow Federal Building?
Of course if your goal is to attack gun owners you wouldn't include those non gun assaults, which were much more deadly, in the discussion. Also excluded, no doubt for the same reason, is a discussion of children killed in other ways as a direct result of mental illness - like the two kids pushed into traffic on I-495 in 2008 by their aunt who suffered some kind of mental illness.
We all are familiar with Stalin, Hitler and Mao. All fans of unarmed citizenry.
Chiang Kai-shek (China: 1928-49)
Enver Pasha (Turkey: 1913-18)
Hirohito (Japan: 1926-89)
Hirota Koki (Japan: 1936-37)
Ho Chi Minh (North Vietnam: 1945-69)
Kim Il Sung (North Korea: 1948-94)
Lenin (USSR: 1917-24)
Leopold II (Belgium: 1865-1909)
Nicholas II (Russia: 1894-1917)
Pol Pot (Cambodia: 1975-79)
Saddam Hussein (Iraq: 1969- )
Tojo Hideki (Japan: 1941-44)
Wilhelm II (Germany: 1888-1918)
Yahya Khan (Pakistan: 1969-71)
Idi Amin (Uganda: 1971-80)
Ion Antonescu (Romania: 1940-44)
Ataturk (Turkey: 1920-38)
Francisco Franco (Spain: 1939-75)
Gheoghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Romania: 1945-65)
Yakubu Gowon (Nigeria: 1966-76)
Radovan Karadzic (Serbian Bosnia: 1991-96)
Babrac Kemal (Afghanistan: 1979-87)
Le Duan (Vietnam: 1976-86)
Haile Mengistu (Ethiopia: 1974-91)
Benito Mussolini (Italy: 1922-43)
Ante Pavelic (Croatia: 1941-45)
Antonio de Salazar (Portugal: 1932-68)
Hadji Suharto (Indonesia: 1967-97)
Tito (Yugoslavia: 1945-80)
They have slow trains in Ireland, too.
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