In December 2012, five months after James Holmes opened fire on theater-goers in Aurora Colorado, a knife-wielding Chinese madman attacked a primary school. Twenty-two children were wounded. Wounded, not killed. Gun control advocates seized on the story as proof that a gun-free society is safer than one like, say, the United States, whose citizens have a Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Ignoring the human rights abuses inflicted on China’s citizenry by its own government. Truth be told, there is no such thing as a gun-free society. The Chinese government has guns. And they’re not afraid to use them . . .
Chinese officials say 21 people were killed after a fight broke out during a police investigation of suspected criminals in the latest act of violence in the restive northwest province of Xinjiang.
The clashes began Tuesday, when social workers came across what state media referred to as “suspicious individuals and knives” in a house in western Kashgar prefecture.
“Restive.” I wonder if that’s how the Brits described American colonists back in the day. Voice of America says the social workers met an untimely end.
“While [the social workers] were in the process of reporting this to their superiors they were apprehended by bandits who were hiding in the home. Afterwards policemen and community cadres at the local police station went to handle the matter, and the bandits killed the police and community workers who were inside the home,” said the official.
The Xinjiang official, who did not wish to be named, said the suspects set fire to the house during the clashes. Fifteen social workers and police were killed, while six “gang members” were shot dead. Another eight were captured.
Even if you take this report at face value—a pretty silly thing to do—it’s clear that a gun-free society is not a violence-free society. How could it be?
This story keeps getting weirder: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/officials_boston_bombing_suspects_had_1_gun
The antis don’t care about living in a factually free society.Rather they care about “pretending” to live in a violence free society.Weapon control laws serve as a psychological salve for the weak minded.One wonders how a law against hurricanes will keep New Orleans safe.
As long as humans are involved, there will not be a peaceful violence free utopia such as anti’s will it to be.
Maybe the problem was the police’s guns. They were obviously calling out to the criminals to commit violent crimes so the police would be forced to use the guns to kill people, thereby fulfilling the guns purpose for existing. Or not.
Perfect! This will further incentivize a move towards competing currencies against the dollar hopefully, or at a minimum drive business to smaller/regional banks.
Funny though, GE has no issue making money off arms sold to despotic governments, engaging in far worse acts than any private individual may or has committed.
If this is financing offered to individual buyers then this is not very serious. However, if this is the commercial credit that the store owner needs to keep new merchandise coming in and payrolls going out then it is a very big deal. Hope all affected shops find local firearm-friendly financing soon.
The worst part about this is if all the gun owners stopped doing buisness with these banks it wouldn’t do a damn thing the goof gov that’s all for the people would just steal more money from us to give them bailouts.
A friend of mine, more world-wise than I was at the time, once told me, “wherever you are, MUSLIMS ARE TROUBLE!”
Yep. He might have added, “people on a mission from the Almighty are trouble.”
While we’re at the “what if” game; what if that mugger had a gun and a previous record? Never bring a knife (even a 29″ one) to a gunfight and all that.
What an intolerable burden it must be. To be a 24th century Utopian, and
be stuck here in the 21st with all of us knuckle-dragging neanderthals. Zoiks! To compound misfortune, he doesn’t seem to speak the language.
Just livin’ the big lie.
But 99% of Americans support common semse gun control, for the children.
Duh!
/sarcasm
Gentlemen,
We can castigate this bombastic fool of an Englishman without resort to obscenities.
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