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Topic started on 29-5-2012 @ 07:32 PM by Daedal

China condemns U.S. gun ownership as human rights violation


www.examiner.com
“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.”
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Related News Links:
www.nyconsulate.prchina.org


reply posted on 29-5-2012 @ 07:42 PM by Daedal
reply to post by neo96


I agree. They also carry over the abuse to the mines in Africa.


reply posted on 29-5-2012 @ 07:48 PM by neo96
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The right to bear arms was set in stone to ensure that this nation shall not perish from the hands of tyranny everyone knows this and those who champion that government has any right to do that when they have been shown time and time agian to be incompetent with the handling of their own, is an act of treason.


reply posted on 29-5-2012 @ 07:53 PM by KilrathiLG
www.ammoland.com... think this one might have scared them a bit....

www.reuters.com... and this link also seems to mention 40 million guns in private hands in china so i think they can own guns just not hand guns or anything semi automattic/auttomatic least in private hands this link seems to have some info but its not too informative www.gunpolicy.org...

online.wsj.com... far more informative
edit on 29-5-2012 by KilrathiLG because: add links

Like other technologies, guns have a long history here. Chinese invented gunpowder more than a thousand years ago, and soon developed one of the first guns, called a "fire spear." Rifles were widely available by the late 19th century, when war and revolution began engulfing the country. In 1938, as the Communists battled the Japanese and the ruling Nationalists for control, Mao Zed ong made his famous remark that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" -- foreshadowing strict gun laws the Communists later imposed.
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reply posted on 29-5-2012 @ 07:55 PM by lonewolf19792000
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And we really care about what China says? This same country who has massacred it's own people who were left defenseless because they didn't own firearms?

A gun is just a tool, on it's own it can kill no one. People kill people. As i always say, better to have one and never need it, than to not have it and then end up needing it. Wishes do not provide defense. Taking away the right to bear arms will not solve the problem of criminals obtaining firearms, because the criminal element that deals with the black market will always have firearms because thats the tools of their trade.

Moreover, the U.S. fed government can't even protect it's own people, one look at the state of Arizona that is in a daily battle against mexican drug cartels like the Zetas is the proof of that, because it's the U.S. fed government selling them weapons via the "Fast and Furious" scandal through the FBI/ATF.

The U.S. government funds terrorist groups in the middle east and provides them with weapons (al'qaeda), provides the mexican drug cartels with weapons etc. I mean gee, theyre funding and providing everyone but their own people with weapons while trying to take our weapons away. Anyone starting to feel like a lamb to the slaughter? Anyone starting to feel like the people who are supposed to protect them are betraying them?


reply posted on 29-5-2012 @ 08:02 PM by NISMOALTI
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and nothing will come of this at all. it is a safe guard to keep other country's out. we have guns and if another country tries to invade the us, im sure they will be met with the armed forces and every gun owning person in this country.

also why do they even care, there country has more violations to human rights than most others
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