Gun Violence

[JohnRich 4]

News:

100,000 illegal guns seized across China

"IN A COORDINATED operation yesterday, police officers in China seized over 100,000 illegal guns... and a range of other illegal weapons in 150 cities across the country.

"The weapons are being destroyed at special depots and collection points in an ongoing operation Chinese officials say is helping to seriously cut the country’s gun crime..."

Full story: TheJournal.ie

I'm happy to see that the Chinese have placed guards around the piles of confiscated weapons, so that the evil guns can't sneak away and do more mayhem. Now, finally, China will be safe from gun and knife violence. It can now become the home of the free, where everyone lives in perfect harmony with one another and their government. No longer will innocent citizens be threatened by thugs with guns and knives. Long live the spirit of Chairman Mao!

[skinnay 0]

At least it made a cool photo

[texascrw 1]

That was sickening, but I suppose you can't expect any better. I'm sure those pictures will keep Mr. Vaughan from Toronto, and little Charlie Schumer, in wet dreams for weeks. Maybe they should move there. It's seems more in line with their thinking. I would be happy to chip in on the tickets.

[kelpdiver 2]

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At least it made a cool photo

it did. The Iranian photoshop experts should see what good images look like.

[rehmwa 2]

In further news, the head of Chinese security later acknowledged that burning unloaded guns would have been a better move and apologizes to any terrified canines that aren't still running away from the city.

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[rehmwa 2]

Books next of course.

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[kelpdiver 2]

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In further news, the head of Chinese security later acknowledged that burning unloaded guns would have been a better move and apologizes to any terrified canines that aren't still running away from the city.

that's why they placed a few hundred dissidents and powered milk factory owners next to the flames. Guns really can kill people, if you light enough of them on fire.

[Andy9o8 3]

You sure that's not an Aggie bonfire?

[rehmwa 2]

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You sure that's not an Aggie bonfire?

I think this caps a very productive week for you - congratulations

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[StreetScooby 5]

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In further news, the head of Chinese security later acknowledged that burning unloaded guns would have been a better move and apologizes to any terrified canines that aren't still running away from the city.

LOL... (everyone at work is looking at me now... better get back to working ;-0

We are all engines of karma

[JohnRich 4]

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At least it made a cool photo

Yeah, it's kind of like burning witches at the stake. Well, the women being burned aren't really witches, nor are they really responsible for the things for which they are blamed. But what the heck, it makes everyone feel so much better to do it. BURN THE WITCHES! BURN THE GUNS!

[billvon 3,132]

>Yeah, it's kind of like burning witches at the stake.

Of course. Killing a person is kind of like burning a thing.

[Marinus 0]

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Yeah, it's kind of like burning witches at the stake.

No it isn't, even after all this time it's kind of tasteless to compare the Christian hobby of torturing innocents to death in public displays to the burning of objects.

[headoverheels 334]

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In further news, the head of Chinese security later acknowledged that burning unloaded guns would have been a better move and apologizes to any terrified canines that aren't still running away from the city.

Obvious propaganda. No loose canines there, they would be long eaten.

[JohnRich 4]

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>Yeah, it's kind of like burning witches at the stake.

Of course. Killing a person is kind of like burning a thing.

Think of it more as burning *ideas* and you'll find more agreement in the analogy.

[SkyPiggie 0]

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>Yeah, it's kind of like burning witches at the stake.

Of course. Killing a person is kind of like burning a thing.

Think of it more as burning *ideas* and you'll find more agreement in the analogy.

Yes, it's the idea of it that is more disturbing then the physical act of doing it. I'm thinking of other things that have been burned in protests, like books, crosses, churches and abortion clinics. Take a burning cross, for example: one the one hand it's just a piece of wood, but as a symbol of KKK racism and terror, it's something far worse. A bonfire of guns is just a bunch of wood and steel, but look at the nations that have confiscated and destroyed guns: Nazi Germany, North Korea, China, Venezuela. Those aren't exactly beacons of freedom, prosperity and human rights. So the idea of burning the guns, just like the KKK cross, symbolizes something far worse.

[strife 0]

wonder if the africans in that photos are in China or Chinese owned African states

[christelsabine 1]

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wonder if the africans in that photos are in China or Chinese owned African states

Kenia does not belong to China, as far as I know.

http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article162938/In-Kenia-gehen-Feuerwaffen-in-Rauch-auf.html

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[Skyrad 0]

Cool 2nd picture (Personally I couldn't care less what the Chinese do with gun laws in their own borders).

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[davjohns 1]

This should make it safer for the government to crush protesting students with tanks. Unarmed civilians are so much easier to massacre.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[quade 4]

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This should make it safer for the government to crush protesting students with tanks. Unarmed civilians are so much easier to massacre.

And yet, what was the most singularly powerful image from Tiananmen Square? A lone and unarmed man standing up to a column of tanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

Sure, he could have easily died trying to stop the tanks unarmed, he also probably would have died if he had been armed as well, but unarmed he's heroic in a way no amount of weaponry could have improved upon.

I'm not going to go so far as to say that image stopped the massacre, but it sure as hell got the rest of the world on his side.

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[davjohns 1]

There is no glory in dying for your cause. The glory is making the other poor bastard die for his cause. (stolen and slightly altered)

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[kelpdiver 2]

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I'm not going to go so far as to say that image stopped the massacre, but it sure as hell got the rest of the world on his side.

powerful image, not unlike the girl in Vietnam hit by napalm, but unlike that one, this one didn't really change things. China clamped down hard and a lot of people paid for it in the days and months after the protests.

[winsor 236]

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This should make it safer for the government to crush protesting students with tanks. Unarmed civilians are so much easier to massacre.

And yet, what was the most singularly powerful image from Tiananmen Square? A lone and unarmed man standing up to a column of tanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

Sure, he could have easily died trying to stop the tanks unarmed, he also probably would have died if he had been armed as well, but unarmed he's heroic in a way no amount of weaponry could have improved upon.

I'm not going to go so far as to say that image stopped the massacre, but it sure as hell got the rest of the world on his side.

A) It did not stop the massacre.

B) The world's sympathy had no effect on the efficacy of the suppression.

C) The individual who stood up to the tanks has apparently been identified by various sources; he was never prosecuted, but simply "dissapeared." The person standing in front of the tank had just committed suicide.

D) When all was said and done, the protesters lost and the powers that be won. An RPG would have had an awful lot more impact than having the tanks stop briefly to avoid having to clean giblets our of their tracks.

[Skyrad 0]

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This should make it safer for the government to crush protesting students with tanks. Unarmed civilians are so much easier to massacre.

I've not heard about armed resistance in China en mass and they didn't have guns in Tiannamin square and they were crushed regardless of the worlds media. The world stood watching then and it would again.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca