COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN INVESTMENTWATCH
Gun control: Felon
accused of killing Chicago police commander
The writer simply doesn’t get it.
Well thought-out gun control works.
Just study Canada's or Britain's violent crime rates
compared to America’s, and that’s with fairly heavy influxes of migrants,
something so often (incorrectly) disparaged in the United States as
contributing to big increases in violence.
Poor Chicago with its fairly strict gun laws is an island in
a sea of American gun lawlessness. Just drive to another state and bring in a
trunk-load of weapons to sell or distribute. Or just order on-line. Or have a
friend mail you some guns.
They try, but it's a bit hopeless when you literally are
surrounded by lunacy.
Thoughtless people like the author of this article then take
the city as an example of how misdirected gun control is. This is a case of
deducing from nonsense assumptions.
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Response to a rather
bizarre comment from a reader:
Your words are pathetic.
You clearly didn't even understand what I wrote.
Our rates of violent crime and Britain's are still extremely
low compared to America's.
"multicultural infestation”? God, what ugly words. You
sound like either an Israeli settler or a member of some American Aryan
"Church."
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Response to a comment
saying “Unfortunately the anti-gun-control side makes a very valid point too
though: If a second Hitler or Stalin takes over the government, would you
rather have all guns on the side of the population, or would you rather have an
armed population that can fight back?”
Sorry, but I just cannot grasp how anyone accepts this
Hitler/Stalin-type argument, although it appears with some frequency in
America.
First, America's governments are so massively armed that
some clowns out in the street with rifles and shotguns or even machine guns
would provide nothing but target practice.
A National Guard in every state loaded with all kinds of
weapons, including armored cars and small air forces.
State police. County police. City police, and some of these
have the equivalent of military weapons.
Then there's national armed forces equipped to obliterate
anything or anyone. A huge armed force.
Then there's all the American security agencies - 17 of them
in total, all armed.
By the way, these security agencies have been allowed to
become so intrusive that every e-mail or text you send, every phone call you
place is recorded by the NSA’s supercomputer centers. They know all your
friends and contacts and family. This is even further reinforced by the data
dumps of smarmy Facebook and Google who send NSA all the information you reveal
about yourself on their sites and services.
Before long you will have to go through TSA inspection to
take an inter-city bus or train. All of your personal information from library
books checked-out to employment records are open to the FBI. Do you not
understand that this huge pile of information, all collated and cross-checked
in super-computers, will be used from now on to check on people and what they
are doing, to identify “rebels” or “rebel movements” long before there can be any
gatherings in streets?
Information is a powerful weapon, and your government has it,
and you don’t. East Germany’s once-dreaded Stasi already looks like a gang of
amateurs compared to what Americans now live under.
Americans are, whether they know it or not, likely the
world's most overwhelmed people with massive armies and weapons surrounding
them and controlled by their government. Russia doesn't even compare. It much
resembles the situation of Palestinians versus the occupying Israeli army.
And you really believe putting on some camouflage and
heading out with a weapon could intimidate a tyrannous American government?
You have to be on drugs to believe that silly idea.
Good God, you had revolts enough times in the US - Detroit,
LA, etc. - and they all ended the same way with dozens of people shot dead in
the streets. Forty-odd people were shot on the streets of Detroit in 1967, and
that was just with the local National Guard operating.
And just day to day, recent research has finally revealed
how many people in America are killed by their own police - over 1,100 per
year. I don't see how guns have ever had any effect on the slaughter.
In an extreme example, the bunch of far-out people at Waco
were armed to the teeth with quite heavy weapons. They all died, and died
miserably.
Americans are occupied by their own government, yet they
seem blithely unaware of it.
Talk about opposing tyranny is a bad joke.
By the way, you've already had some destructive, horrible
leaders - the example of Lyndon Johnson being a strong one. He started a major
war, stole elections, did countless crooked deals, was likely complicit in
Kennedy's assassination, was definitely complicit in Israel's 1967 War and the
attack on the USS Liberty.
And what band of Patriots confronted him? Zero.
