Posted on 09/23/2013 6:42:07 PM PDT by Innovative
The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war
The annual toll from firearms in the US is running at 32,000 deaths and climbing, even though the general crime rate is on a downward path (it is 40% lower than in 1980). If this perennial slaughter doesn't qualify for intercession by the UN and all relevant NGOs, it is hard to know what does.
But no nation sees itself as outsiders do. Half the country is sane and rational while the other half simply doesn't grasp the inconsistencies and historic lunacy of its position, which springs from the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, and is derived from English common law and our 1689 Bill of Rights. We dispensed with these rights long ago, but American gun owners cleave to them with the tenacity that previous generations fought to continue slavery.
There is absolutely nothing he (Obama) can do, which underscores the fact that America is in a jam and that international pressure may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot stand idly by.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
(Please try to keep your responses clean, don't post what you first want to say -- I had to apply significant self control because my initial reaction was definitely not printable...)
Come and take it.
To hell with that nonsense! The world should straighten out its own messes.
They included all deaths, like suicides, and criminals shot and killed, I think.
“Come and take it.”
That was my first printable thought too...
Molon Labe baby.
One of these days the UK will for some reason, somehow want to have guns around once again.
In America, we’ll be ready.
Just saying.
Where does he sight his statistics from?
Rights? Who needs those?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
“They included all deaths, like suicides, and criminals shot and killed, I think.”
What it doesn’t include is how many lives would have been saved, if the victims had guns too...
Who the crap would they send? The Brits? The French? The Swedes? None of theom could make a dent in Texas muchless the entire USA. Shove it ya daft pricks.
What fact-bereft hypocritical lunacy.
Mr. porter. Your flappin’ gums are out of control. I’d like to intervene. Come on down. This ain’t some podunk country and people actually enjoy freedom here. I got a suggestion for ya. Write an article condemning all the loony muzzie asshats in GB and see if your editors let you print that. My guess is no. How’s that freedom of speech lookin’ no nancy boy?
Yes world you can help our gun violence. Please take and assimilate our young, black, uneducated, unchurched, fatherless males and our crime rate would resemble Iceland.
Dear Henry,
Please do try it. I’d prefer if you were st the head of the UN forces. Make sure they buy you a snappy uniform that stands out to show your brilliant leadership skills.
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Bring it on “International Community”
You can have mine - bullets first! (and I bet my stockpile equals yours, emasculated England)
It’s like this Henry old boy. We didn’t kick your @$$es in the Revolutionary War so we would have to listen to you passing gas to the tune, “Take Their Guns Away”. You worry about your island. We’ll worry about our continent. Don’t you have some Muzzie feet that you should be kissing?
The sheeple of the Third World EU want company when they are enslaved.
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