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Rwanda: Guns Have No Place in Homes
allafrica.com ^ | 2/8/2015 | Sophie Kamya

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.

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Machetes and axes, not so much. Sounds like nannie bloomers saying them black folks ain't responsible enough to have guns.
1 posted on 02/10/2015 11:47:04 AM PST by rktman
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THE AGE OF CENTRALIZED Absolute POWER WORLDWIDE....is right around that corner...


2 posted on 02/10/2015 11:49:30 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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” 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 : )


3 posted on 02/10/2015 11:49:39 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: rktman
MEMO TO: Sophie
Bite me.
Love, PPM
4 posted on 02/10/2015 11:49:51 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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"If there's one thing that has caused pain and suffering the world over, it is a gun."


5 posted on 02/10/2015 11:51:12 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when civilians stock up on guns and ammunition


6 posted on 02/10/2015 11:51:15 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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Ok, then, please consider me “an Army of one.” Problem solved.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 11:52:07 AM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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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.


8 posted on 02/10/2015 11:52:41 AM PST by ealgeone
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Me likey!


9 posted on 02/10/2015 11:52:49 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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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.

Hey, mon! Thanks for your opinion. Move along. Baaahhhh. Baaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. (sheep)

10 posted on 02/10/2015 11:54:28 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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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.


11 posted on 02/10/2015 11:54:38 AM PST by rdcbn
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guns must be kept away form criminals and monkeys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNW30bLTP0Y


12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:54:46 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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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.)

13 posted on 02/10/2015 11:54:47 AM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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"I have never owned a gun and I don't wish to do so."

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.

14 posted on 02/10/2015 11:56:41 AM PST by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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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.


15 posted on 02/10/2015 11:57:39 AM PST by 556x45
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If you want completely helpless when roving bandits attack your home, by all means go ahead.
You have the right to make that choice. For yourself.
Not for me.

16 posted on 02/10/2015 11:57:43 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.


17 posted on 02/10/2015 11:57:49 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Second paragraph: why would a gun owner wish not to have guns? Does not make sense. Author is delusional.


18 posted on 02/10/2015 12:00:43 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Your poster is mislabeled. It should read:

All Your Liberty Are Belong To Us.

19 posted on 02/10/2015 12:01:29 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: 556x45
Wonder how she decided all this and even more why she thought anyone cared about her unbaked opinions.

Unbaked? I think she remains baked most of the time. And THAT'S my opinion (since we are sharing).

20 posted on 02/10/2015 12:02:12 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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