America has become the last great colony of the gun imperialists. Like the colonies of history, we suffer the loss while they reap the profits. And like all imperialists, the gun imperialists prefer to rule us indirectly, through a system of stooges, like the NRA. NSSF, and the US Congress.
Tom's comment is an interesting observation if we consider that the original Boston Tea Party was a protest against a monopoly (The British East India Company) receiving preferred treatment in the colonial system and the War for American Independence was a fight against colonialisation. In this case, colonialisation doesn't need to be political, it can be economic as well. After all, a colony is a place where its resources and wealth are stripped to enrich the colonial power.
So, instead of being a "patriot", you lot are far more supporters of the colonial system. That may be unwitting supporters, but supporters nonetheless. It also adds the irony that the AK-47 is no longer the gun of "freedom", but one which is serving to oppress your nation.
Like it or not, living under the gun usually does not mean "freedom" in most political lexicons. Instead, it denotes repression. But, the US debate around this issue is nonsensical as far as the gun rights movement is concerned. The gun rights movement twists the facts and turns them into something out of a weird dystopian novel.
The gun rights movement is not offering freedom, it is placing US society under the gun.
Which one is it: Are we the gun suppliers to the world, or a colony of foreign gun makers? Of course, the reality is that this video, as with everything else of Tom Diaz, is nonsense. But by all means, Laci, continue believing what he has to say. It makes you easier to defeat.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is, wow. I think Mr. Diaz has been hanging with Michael Moore too long. And you call gun owners paranoid.
ReplyDelete"The gun rights movement is not offering freedom, it is placing US society under the gun." And yet in your utopian society only the government agents would have guns which would literally put the US society under the gun.
ReplyDeleteNo, America doesn't sell guns to the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteU.S. firearms manufacturers will export some $4.4 billion worth of guns and ammunition to other countries this year. The biggest customers are Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, who accounted for nearly 40 percent of exports in 2012 (it's mainly law enforcement and military agencies doing the buying, as private gun ownership is heavily regulated in those nations). IBIS World expects exports to keep surging in the coming years, with ammunition and ordnance being an especially popular item overseas.
DeleteLink, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/19/seven-facts-about-the-u-s-gun-industry/
I guess the US does at that
The USA supplies arms to more than 170 countries and has a mixed record of suspending arms supplies on human rights grounds. For example, it has restricted arms transfers to Myanmar, China, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in addition to countries subject to UN arms embargoes. However, it has supplied arms to other countries, for example Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen, where there is a substantial risk that they could be used to commit of facilitate serious human rights violations.
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http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/big-six-arms-exporters-2012-06-11
More yet?
•Permanent UN Security Council members—the USA, UK, France, Russia, and China—dominate the world trade in arms.
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http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business
Yes there is still MORE!
That was sarcasm for the site asshole lying criminal coward, but thanks for proving my point.
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