The second amendment of the constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. As the specter of gun violence continues in our workplaces, roads and schools, the question keeps arising: do guns keep you safe, or just increase the level of violence?
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an eastern perspective
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I am sorry but the 30 million plus victims of Mao Zedong's regime disagree with you. I am sure if it was possible to ask them they would wish that they had been armed.
- Douglas
November 13, 2008 8:06PM
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Culture and Indentity
You're confusing y/our very "American" idea of personal and cultural identity to those that are held in "Eastern" regions... which are very, very different.
Second... if you can't even spell Tse Tung correctly there's actually some question that you know little about what you're actually trying to rebut.
People do not have to be armed to bring about either cultural or political change..... nor do they need arms to prevent it.
- SocialistBetty
March 27, 2009 7:12PM
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Since you are using the Roman alphabet and not Chinese calligraphy, then you too are spelling it wrong. Since you are translating from one alphabet to another, there is no "correct" spelling, only "accepted" ones. And both Zedong and Tse Tung are acceptable ones.
And as far as "needing" arms to prevent cultural or political change, it depends on which side you're on. If you're the unarmed populace facing a heavily armed and oppressive government regime, you're not going to get the change you want just by wishing it. Even if you say, "Pretty please with sugar on top."
- LagerHead
July 7, 2009 3:52PM
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Unless that political change is being promulgated from the barrel of the gun.... as the very same man who's name you bicker about a non-native spelling of.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Tse-tung
Or Zedong. Or a few other ways....
- camosoul77
August 27, 2009 7:00PM
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Chairman's name
That's "Mousy Tongue". ANY serviceman can tell you that!!
- Nightowl22
September 7, 2009 6:28PM
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