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Kerry: All you gun toters are scaring Japanese students, or something
Hot Air ^ | April 15, 2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 04/15/2013 2:55:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you have felt disappointed because Secretary of State John Kerry hasn’t yet joined most of his Obama administration colleagues to offer an ignorant opinion on the gun debate, well, this post is for you. While on a trip to Asia ostensibly to deal with the crisis on the Korean peninsula, Kerry took time out to poll his hosts on their views of gun control:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

It’s difficult to know where to start with this nonsense. First, as we have repeatedly pointed out, gun deaths have declined each year since the expiration of the nonsensical “assault weapons” ban in 2007, in every category. You are twice as likely to die from “personal weapons” as from rifles of any kind, according to FBI crime statistics. Gun ownership levels aren’t rapidly changing, and to the extent they are, the correlative drop in gun-related homicide victims at the very least means (a) the US is getting safer over the last several years, and (b) legal gun ownership isn’t statistically related to crime.

By the way, would these students feel safer in Chicago and Washington DC, where gun-control laws are much more prevalent? If so, then those students should study statistical math before coming to the US....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; bhoasia; bhostatedept; guncontrol; japan; johnfnkerry; johnkerry; kerrythatweight; kerrywater; reportingforduty; secondamendment; servedinvietnam; soskerry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing to do with the guns , yet the Japan bashers are all chiming with their dumb attacks on Japan .


21 posted on 04/15/2013 3:45:04 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They, unlike the modern Japanese, are well-armed.

Damn that Eric Holder!

22 posted on 04/15/2013 3:50:52 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Candor7

Easy solution. Take a Japanese student shooting. They’ll love it!!!


23 posted on 04/15/2013 3:53:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we should give up our rights because of some foreign students?

Really?

Ringling Bros would do a better job of running this country than these clowns.


24 posted on 04/15/2013 4:24:56 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Doogle

Can I get me a huntin’ license heyah?


25 posted on 04/15/2013 4:30:39 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: mountainlion

I don’t think it did work, so much as it wasn’t ever part of the plan, anyway.


26 posted on 04/15/2013 4:31:45 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: mountainlion
If female Japanese students in U.S. schools are not already afraid (and not from those bearing arms legally), then they are seriously delusional.

Everyone knows that the campus police are not there to protect students. They are there to protect the school's reputation. There's a lot of bad things happening to Asian females on college campuses that go unreported. Again, it's not those who are legally bearing arms that are the perpetrators.

27 posted on 04/15/2013 5:30:46 PM PDT by Prolixus (Summum ius summa inuria.)
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To: Prolixus

Salazar in Colorado says that CU women only need a “rape whistle”. They want to ban guns from law abiding persons so that only criminals can carry.


28 posted on 04/15/2013 5:35:41 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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29 posted on 04/15/2013 5:43:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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30 posted on 04/16/2013 12:00:12 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Billthedrill
I lived in Japan for eight years and I never saw a single ninja.

That's because they're here being afraid of guns.

31 posted on 04/16/2013 12:37:15 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: oldenuff2no
oo bad the mexicans aren’t scared of us.....

yet

32 posted on 04/16/2013 1:51:03 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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