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billh58

(6,641 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 10:37 PM Aug 2013

US Gun Culture Corrupting the World

The U.S. has chosen the pathway of illogical policy with regard to guns," Australia’s former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer said Friday. "They cannot expect not to have any criticism of it worldwide.”

“I am angry because it is corrupting the world, this gun culture of the United States
.”

(Snip)

Fischer said the lack of gun control in the U.S. had led to a massacre “each and every year since 1996” - in contrast to Australia, which has restrictions on firearms ownership.

He said the majority of illegally obtained guns used in crimes in Australia and Mexico had come from the U.S.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/23/20131976-us-gun-culture-is-corrupting-the-world-australia-ex-deputy-pm-says-after-okla-slaying?chromedomain=worldnews

Americans can thank the NRA for this obscene proliferation of guns, and for the gun culture that pays the NRA to corrupt politicians at all levels of our government. The NRA is nothing more than a terrorist organization and should be viewed as such.

Not only sane and concerned American citizens, but the world community is calling for sensible gun control in the United States.

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US Gun Culture Corrupting the World (Original Post) billh58 Aug 2013 OP
K&R and ITA -- the NRA is a terrorist organization. MotherPetrie Aug 2013 #1
the NRA wants EVERYONE armed and paranoid Skittles Aug 2013 #2
'Sell crazy somplace else. We're all stocked up here' hasn't sunk in yet. freshwest Aug 2013 #3
Absolutely. Most gun nuts have no idea how dumb we look to the rest of the world. DanTex Aug 2013 #4

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
3. 'Sell crazy somplace else. We're all stocked up here' hasn't sunk in yet.
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 01:36 AM
Aug 2013

Mr. Scorpio posted this about what we're dealing with now, and have been a long time:



RWNJs see themselves as freedom fighters. Possibly sanity can be achieved without the confiscation they're so worried about.

IDK.





DanTex

(20,709 posts)
4. Absolutely. Most gun nuts have no idea how dumb we look to the rest of the world.
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 07:57 AM
Aug 2013

Probably because they tend to be "Gu Murka" types who would never visit a foreign country except to fight in a war.

And it's much more than just appearances. American guns are taking lives in Mexico, the Caribbean, and even in Canada a lot of the handguns used in crimes come from the US.

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