Posted on 02/10/2015 11:47:04 AM PST by rktman
I'm anti-guns, and I don't apologise for that.
If there's one thing that has caused pain and suffering the world over, it is a gun. A trigger is pulled and just like that, the target, intended or otherwise is wounded or killed.
Now if it's war or any other serious conflict that requires the engagement of a country's armed forces to protect territorial and other interests, that's different. What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when civilians stock up on guns and ammunition. I have never owned a gun and I don't wish to do so. I just wish gun owners who're not law enforcers felt the same way.
(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
” If there’s one thing that has caused pain and suffering the world over, it is a gun”
Especially if you don’t have one to fight back with : )
Ok, then, please consider me “an Army of one.” Problem solved.
The Jews in Nazi Germany might disagree with this as would the poor citizens in southside Chicago, North Korea, Cuba, former Soviet Union and any former eastern bloc country, Communist China and any other dictatorship in the world.
Me likey!
Hey, mon! Thanks for your opinion. Move along. Baaahhhh. Baaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. (sheep)
In just 100 days in 1994, some 800000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists.
In the words of one British diplomat, the whole genocide could have been stopped in it’s tracks by a single brigade of royal marines.
Had the Tutsi had guns, the Hutu extremists, who were cowards in the fact of serious opposition, would have never dared started their genocide, nor would they have been able carry it out like they did.
Same with the savages of ISIS today. They prey on the defenseless but either run or get run over hen faced with serious opposition.
If there's one thing that has caused pain and suffering the world over, it is a gun.
I can't agree with you more. Especially when the gun is in the hands of people who want what is yours and feel justified in using a gun to make you hand it over. Which, here in the United States, is why so many departments of government have purchased an insane number of arms and ammo. "We're from the government, and we are here to help you.
(The correct sentence would be "We're from the government, and we are here to help ourselves.)
Then don't buy one. Don't worry about what I own or buy or own.
Just because you don't want one don't ask for laws around the world to outlaw things you don't want to own and allow things you do want.
Sophie isn’t the brightest bulb in the box is she.....so its OK if nations want to kill each other w/ guns but self defense from criminals isn’t. Wonder how she decided all this and even more why she thought anyone cared about her unbaked opinions.
Good poster. But Mao alone murdered 100 million. Throw in people like Stalin, Lenin (40 million combined), Pol Pot (3 million), Mugabe, Castro, the Kim boys and the rest, and we are probably easily at 150 million.
Second paragraph: why would a gun owner wish not to have guns? Does not make sense. Author is delusional.
All Your Liberty Are Belong To Us.
Unbaked? I think she remains baked most of the time. And THAT'S my opinion (since we are sharing).
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