Posted on 06/22/2016 4:02:30 PM PDT by Ennis85
Americans love their guns, as any good historian will tell you. Following the recent Orlando, Florida murders, in which some 50 patrons of the Pulse Bar were shot dead by a rifle-toting assailant, United States news outlets described the tragedy as "the largest mass shooting in American history".
That was true, but only if you counted its most recent predecessors - at Virginia Tech University (32 dead), at Sandy Hook Elementary School (27 dead, including 20 children), in San Bernardino (14 dead), Charleston (nine dead), and at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, in which two teenagers massacred 12 of their fellow pupils and one teacher.
In truth, the competition for the mother-of-all mass shootings predates the Columbine killings, which stands as a kind of modern talisman of what ails the US.
But, despite their horrific toll, Orlando and Columbine - and Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino and Charleston - are not that unusual.
The Wounded Knee Massacre claimed the lives of at least 150 American Indians in 1890, white mobs bludgeoned and shot 100 African Americans in East St Louis in 1917, and more than 50 others were murdered in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921.
That is to say, the "largest mass shooting" in the US history was the "largest" but only so long as you don't count Indians and African Americans.
Or worse: in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to Vietnam, but couldn't - because it was needed in Detroit, where rioting killed 43 and burned out large parts of the city.
The riots, which looked more like an uprising, were broadcast live on national television, but they quickly subsided, allowing Americans to return to their daily fare of watching US bombers dropping napalm on Vietnamese villagers.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Al Jazeera???
And we give a rat’s ass what they have to say, because....?
Al-Jazeera is welcome to come knock on my door, personally, and take them.
You beat me to it!
This is crap!
gun control does not save lives, as the author fails to conside the plight of armenian turks who became subject first to gun control and then to ethnic cleansing.
http://armeniangenocideguncontrol.blogspot.com/
does anyone know anyone who would let govt agents steal their firearms?
this ‘gun control’ yack yack IS indeed a (sicko, anti-American) fantasy
in that it cannot be implemented (even if illegally enacted)
it is just a (bad) joke
And muslims killed 3000 in NYC.
And then muslims all over the world, to include in America, danced in the streets.
Why can’t we have muslim control?
Not surprising that this propaganda arm of the Muslim Brotherhood would be having wet dreams about American citizens being defenseless.
Gun control is a fantasy if you think you are going to collect all 400 million guns in this country.
The feds can’t find 30 million illegal aliens and they are harder to hide.
these people don’t give a DA*m about saving lives, as most of them are solidly for the mass slaughter of innocent babies at taxpayer expense
they are hipocrits, at best
and subversive anti-American agents otherwise
Come get em you smelly cave dwellers.
Counter: the link in my sig. To make it easy: http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet
Foreign terrorist enemies would like to see Americans disarmed. Some VIP political constituents probably have lucrative trade relationships and other relationships with wealthy foreign terrorist enemies.
As if our gun “Rights” come from the State. LOL. Or those stupid, evil politicians.
They come from God. They PREDATE all governments and it is stated in our Founding Documents which are still the Supreme Law of the Land. Any Laws antithetical to the Supreme Law are NULL AND VOID. It is our DUTY to defy UNJUST, EVIL, “Law”-—any law that promotes vice—theft—welfare-—sodomy-—baby-killing——Most politicians need to be in prison for tyranny and undermining our Natural Rights. No one in the government who takes an OATH to defend the CONSTITUTION has the Right to infringe on ANY Natural Rights-—which are unalienable.
Pssst....there is no Natural Right to sodomize others and kill babies or steal (welfare) from producers. We need our Constitution BACK and the politicians in prison-—and the WORDS and MEANING BACK INTO JUST LAW. We need to EJECT all evil laws from 1912 on....ALL of them.
The Evil Marxists destroyed the Words/Meaning of Words-—and is how they flipped 2000 years of Ethics along with our Marxist “education” system of mass indoctrination to puke out dumb lazy evil, addicted puerile people——back to the Satanic Ba’al Ethic system of pederasty, sodomy, slavery, and baby-sacrifices/killing, polygamy and bestiality. We need to return our Christian “Justice” System-—that which formed the Age of Reason, Modern Science, ended Slavery and Pederasty—common in all cultures, and return the US Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land.
Not a fantasy, but a nightmare where the weak don’t have the tools to resist the strong.
Al Jazeera?! ROTFL!!!
We don’t need gun control. We need Muslim control..
....Or Americans being forced to “hide” their guns until when needed.
Al Jazeera....”a rifle-toting assailant” HAHAHAHA
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