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This is an article taken from the web, my comments about it in italics.

This past year marked the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII—a war in which liberation and freedom for dozens of nations was bought with American blood.

True, although not an entirely philanthropic gesture. The only reason they didn’t have to fight a war on their own soil was because the went to the fronts in other country's first (and before Briton fell).

I wouldn’t be surprised if a member of your family fought in that war. And there’s no doubt that someone you know had a close relative who was killed in that war—one of the 400,000 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice to win freedom for the world.

Again, agreed. But again, they it they didn’t travel round the world to die on foreign soil just because they saw injustice in a far off land, this was motivated by self preservation. More so, I think, then the reason the war started in the fist place, the invasion of Poland.

Never before, and never since have the people of one nation paid such a dear price to win freedom for others.

Once more, there is an element of truth to this. But lets put this in to perspective, 407,000 US military personal died in this war, but so did 403,000 Britons, from a very much smaller country, both for “the freedom of others”. To further put this in to perspective, 12 million USSR military died.

And now for the real rub, the real reason that they entered this war in the first place. Lets look at the civilian casualties. Britons 92,700, France 245,000, Yugoslavia 305,000, USSR 15 million. Compare these with the USA 6,000. The lowest number of civilian casualties of any country fighting in this war, by quite some margin.

OK, that’s enough niggling about statistics, lets see where this is really going….

That’s why it’s so hard for me to believe that, right now dozens of the nations we helped liberate are working together, hand-in-hand with dictatorships and terrorist states—to snuff out freedom around the globe and dismantle the Bill of Rights here in America.

Wow, that sounds serious. This must be the “New World Order” or the Illuminati or something. It defiantly sounds serious and requires the attention of all.

I’m talking about the mounting effort by more than 100 members of the United Nations to impose a worldwide ban on civilian ownership of firearms. It’s a plan that includes the destruction of the Second Amendment and a ban on YOUR guns.

WHAT!!!, are you having a fucking laugh.

How dare these inbred, red neck hicks who cant get it up unless the have a semi-automatic pistol in their pants suggest for one second that for some reason their entering a war, which they where compelled to, for their own safety, has anything to do with their “right to bare arms”.

To justify a society that carries guns in a way that would make you think they are in the middle of a war by their participation in a real war that never touched their soil makes me want to puke.

You can read the whole article here, its called “The U.N. Global Gun Ban Treaty: The Ugly Truth About America’s “Friends” and How They Fund the Global Ban”

Now, on with more ranting….

Lets look at some more stats, these are old, but still of interest.

Gun deaths per 100,000 population (for the year indicated):

Homicide

USA 4.08 (1999)

Canada 0.54 (1999)

Switzerland 0.50 (1999)

Scotland 0.12 (1999)

England/Wales 0.12 (1999/00)

Japan 0.04* (1998)

So, for every 100'000 people in America in 1999, over 4 of them have been shot to death.

And the NRA (for it is them who put together this offensive tissue of spin) have the nerve to suggest that it is an Americans god given right to have a 4 in 100'000 chance of getting shot to death each year.

Not even I am cynical enough to say “if Americans want to go round killing each other, then whatever, let them get on with it”. Not with the news today about 23 students being shot in a pointless killing spree. My initial reason for writing this passage was the sick-making hypocrisy of the article I am quoting from. But as a by line, America *has* to do something about its gun problem. I am pretty sure none of those students where “packing” at the time.

For fucks sake…….

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