Posted on 05/31/2012 12:04:56 AM PDT by marktwain
A report issued by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China has included U.S. gun ownership among a list of human rights violations, Law Enforcement Examiner Jim Kouri reported yesterday. "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011" was published last Friday on the PRC’s Consulate General in New York website.
“The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens' lives and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant gun ownership,” the report claims. “The U.S. people hold between 35 percent and 50 percent of the world' s civilian-owned guns, with every 100 people having 90 guns [and] 47 percent of American adults reported that they had a gun.”
The conclusion that gun bans will result in enhanced protection of lives and personal security flies in the face of both the American and Chinese experience. Predictably, the report presents many of the same cherry-picked arguments used by “leading” U.S. and international “gun control” organizations that totally ignore the protective benefits of arms in private hands. And, as typical with advocates of a centralized monopoly of violence, Chinese-style genocide, which resulted in government-caused deaths of unknown tens of millions of defenseless human beings in the 20th Century, and the current brutal occupation and tyrannical suppression of Tibetan sovereignty, is left unacknowledged. Left unsaid is the inconvenient truth that rendering captive populations unable to resist makes such monstrous crimes against humanity not only possible, but inevitable.
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Chinese just trying to figure out how to take over a country whose citizens are armed that’s all.
Most gubmints are afraid to allow their citizens to posess firearms cause they know when gub mints get too pushy the citizens may come for them.
Ya hear me U.S. federal gub mint???
Ya hear me State gub mint?
You hear me local gub mint?
What you said.
China and the Violence Policy Center need to coordinate better. This 47 percent figure undercuts the VPC contention that the number of gun owning Americans is falling.
Totalitarian states like Red China New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, the current federal government, etc. always feel threatened by free men owning firearms.
There fixed it.
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Post this one if Phil doesn't produce a revised edition, but we've asked him for some light changes...
The Fed beat the states to it when they passed the 14th Amendment. But you'll have to admit that being granted permission beats having no rights at all, eh?
I just have to think of how to get it past the budget committee.
Excuse me, but what do you think is protecting our lives and maintaining our personal security?
Never had a jamming problem, but I admit when I plink with it, I mean I might put ten rounds through, then move on to the bigger stuff.
My “real” .22s are a Marlin 1060 tube-fed and an Iver Johnson target pistol/revolver.
well, fortunately i lost all my firearms in a boating accident last fall... so i guess the chicoms can rest easy.
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Interesting you should mention an Iver Johnson. I think my uncle had an old break open in 38spl. Cylinder never quite lined up properly with the forcing cone and fire, lead dust, and other shrapnel were part of the report. My 10/22 is my favorite .22lr. Virtually trouble free. Taurus has a 22LR revolver that holds 9 rounds in the cylinder. Considering how reliable most revolvers are I would gladly give up the 1 round extra you usually get in a semi-auto .22 to go with a 9 round revolver. I think one of those will be on my Santa Christmas list someday.
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