Years ago I worked with a Chinese woman (born perhaps around 1960) who had (I’m told) the very Chinese habit of laughing when she was uncomfortable.
Anyway, for some reason we were talking about Pumpkins, which I (being a New Englander) associate with Thanksgiving and Pilgrims. This woman mentioned that they had many pumpkins in China. I told her I was very surprised to hear that. She said:
“In my village, we grow many pumpkins! My grandfather, he grow more pumpkins than anyone else!”
Then she burst out in laughter and added: “That’s why they killed him!”
Yet it is fashionable for college students in North America to sport Mao’s likeness on posters in offices and dorm rooms or t shirts. Very sick mindset indeed.
One thing to do is to look at the 45 million estimated dead in China between 1958 and 1962 due to the Great Leap Forward and put that figure up against Wikipedia’s “According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US”. This would include certainly both of Adam Lanza’s and James Holmes’ bloody rampages in Sandy Hook, CT and Aurora, CO respectively.
It would take approximately over 5000 years (or over 50 centuries) for the 2012 US firearms homicides number to equal the number that Mao and his civilian gun prohibiting government killed in just 4. Great way to deal with snowflakes who want gun ownership banned, IMHO.
Mao killed 45 million people by communist diktat.
Obama cabinet member Anita Dunn: “Mao is my favorite philosopher”.