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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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To: The_Media_never_lie

Re: mommies, nannies, atronuts


21 posted on 02/10/2015 12:02:29 PM 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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To: rktman

The gun is an instrument in the hands of people. The gun is morally neutral. The morality is in the user.

Being anti-gun is stupid. Being anti-self-defense is stupid. Being anti-violence is good.


22 posted on 02/10/2015 12:03:06 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: rktman

Wasn’t Rwanda the site of genocide done mostly with machetes?


23 posted on 02/10/2015 12:03:38 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Mao was 50,000,000 conservatively. Nobody really knows, I suppose.

If you look at direct casualties in all wars, Communism killed more people.

If you look at direct and collateral casualties in all wars, war is slightly ahead of communism in killing people.

That’s saying something, since Communism did all that in under 100 years.


24 posted on 02/10/2015 12:03:42 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: Vigilanteman
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.

Some would think this is ironic. But it actually fits the liberal left / communist ideology. Humans are bad. Government is good. Control everything. Compassion for people is a facade.

25 posted on 02/10/2015 12:03:58 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: asinclair

‘(The correct sentence would be “We’re from the government, and we are here to help ourselves.) ‘

Lets be honest...theyre ‘here’ to make an example of you by killing you....even if its the wrong address. All this is made possible by our elected representatives and black robed tyrants.


26 posted on 02/10/2015 12:04:28 PM PST by 556x45
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To: I want the USA back
"Being anti-violence is good."

I'm not anti-violence. The use of violence depends.

Flatten Raqqa!

27 posted on 02/10/2015 12:04:40 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: rktman

Firearms are like insurance, fire extinguishers, and emergency equipment. I hope to never, ever have to use it, but it is foolishness to not have it in the first place.


28 posted on 02/10/2015 12:04:58 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rktman

Chuckle...

Run home, Sophie.

Go play with your dolls. There’s a good little girl.


29 posted on 02/10/2015 12:05:16 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Squirly gun! Pulled its own trigger? Is that a fact.


30 posted on 02/10/2015 12:10:11 PM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: rktman

One day there was a knock at my door. President Mugabe, and President Clinton were there. “We are here to take away your rights, and your freedoms”, they said. “From my cold, dead hands, Mister Presidents”, came the reply. They glanced at said hands, and recognized the power of the Second Amendment. “Oh, sorry, wrong address” they exclaimed ;)


31 posted on 02/10/2015 12:11:43 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: rktman

“I have never owned a gun and I don’t wish to do so.”

And I want to impose my beliefs on all of the rest of you. Where have we heard that before?


32 posted on 02/10/2015 12:12:09 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
You are right, of course Unk. I think 80 million is generally considered to be the most likely body count attributed to Mao, but it is 50 million on the low end and 120 million on the high.

In either case, he makes Adolph Hitler look like an underachiever. Compress it into the century or so that Communism has been around and tyrants like Genghis Khan and Tamerlane look even more like pikers by comparison.

33 posted on 02/10/2015 12:17:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: facedown

I JUST MENTIONED THAT IN THE Freepathon thread...yes...

we must adhere to Meme TRadtions!!


34 posted on 02/10/2015 12:18:03 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: rktman

Fact. Vehicles and public roads kill expodentialy more people per year than guns. Oh my how can I sleep at night?


35 posted on 02/10/2015 12:22:12 PM PST by BornToBeAmerican (Dont forget Love)
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To: rktman

36 posted on 02/10/2015 12:31:30 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: mrmeyer

Please send a megacopy of that gif to the White House, the West Wing Clown Show of Felon/Cretins, and both houses of prosti...er...congress.


37 posted on 02/10/2015 12:33:41 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

They belong in the hands of insurgent mobs and the government. No need to protect yourself citizen.


38 posted on 02/10/2015 12:33:51 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: rktman

Replace the word “gun” with “liberal” and I 100% agree.


39 posted on 02/10/2015 12:43:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman

Dear Sophie,

I am nearly sixty years old and have owned at least one firearm since the age of six. I currently own several firearms and I have been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day since the previous century. I have never killed or wounded another person with my firearms and I have never shot myself by accident or otherwise. What am I doing wrong?

Sincerely,

Lab


40 posted on 02/10/2015 12:49:21 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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