Biden: What struck me was these mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else on earth
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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/wo...ge-2707656


WASHINGTON: The world voiced revulsion on Wednesday (May 25) at the massacre of Texas schoolchildren, which for some raised new questions on whether the United States can effectively promote itself as a global model.

President Joe Biden, who has made championing democracy a key priority, appeared conscious of the damage to the US reputation in an impassioned plea for action late Tuesday moments after returning from Asia.

"What struck me on that 17-hour flight, what struck me, was these kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world," said Biden, who had mourned victims of another mass shooting in Buffalo on the eve of his trip.

Some allies questioned, politely, why the United States - with its constitutional right to bear arms and powerful gun lobby - cannot tackle gun violence, which claims on average 111 lives a day.

"DYSFUNCTIONAL" DEMOCRACY

The United States has long faced accusations of double standards in boasting of its democracy.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union pointed to Jim Crow systemic racism and, more recently, allies have voiced revulsion that the United States is the last Western nation to practice capital punishment.
Jeremi Suri, a professor of history and public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said it was commonplace for authoritarians to say they keep citizens safe, pointing to arguments presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But he said the level of gun violence made it increasingly difficult to dismiss the issue as just "one of the oddities of American society, that we're cowboys and carry guns."
"The inability to manage basic safety for citizens contributes to an image that we are, unfortunately, seeing more and more evidence of, of people in foreign societies who believe that democracy is a dysfunctional form of government," he said.
"Even though we've always fallen short at home, democracy nonetheless is an important part of our international brand, and this definitely diminishes that."
Gerard Araud, the outspoken former French ambassador to the United States, on Twitter described gun violence as a "craziness without any prospect of improvement."
"Nothing. Nothing will happen. There will be more massacres," he wrote.
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Assmerica is lumpar one mah!
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Bacuase the original intent for personal arms is not for pointing at others but for pointing at the govt in times of a bad administration. That was how they had conceived during the formative years of USA.

The govt would love entire population without arms. That makes it easier to control and contain.
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They still need their guns.
The Land of the free and the brave.
The problem the statue of Liberty is in water
and not on land.
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#5

Jordan Maxwell deceased,explained
https://youtu.be/eM8F_BXgfZE?list=PL1yqR...GN6us8OvRZ
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Because the United States of America is the greatest country in the world, bullying many others and creating wars to sell outdated weapons.

Before: At your service; After: Serves you right!
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(26-05-2022, 08:01 AM)Alam Wrote:  https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/wo...ge-2707656


WASHINGTON: The world voiced revulsion on Wednesday (May 25) at the massacre of Texas schoolchildren, which for some raised new questions on whether the United States can effectively promote itself as a global model.

President Joe Biden, who has made championing democracy a key priority, appeared conscious of the damage to the US reputation in an impassioned plea for action late Tuesday moments after returning from Asia.

"What struck me on that 17-hour flight, what struck me, was these kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world," said Biden, who had mourned victims of another mass shooting in Buffalo on the eve of his trip.

Some allies questioned, politely, why the United States - with its constitutional right to bear arms and powerful gun lobby - cannot tackle gun violence, which claims on average 111 lives a day.

"DYSFUNCTIONAL" DEMOCRACY

The United States has long faced accusations of double standards in boasting of its democracy.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union pointed to Jim Crow systemic racism and, more recently, allies have voiced revulsion that the United States is the last Western nation to practice capital punishment.
Jeremi Suri, a professor of history and public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said it was commonplace for authoritarians to say they keep citizens safe, pointing to arguments presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But he said the level of gun violence made it increasingly difficult to dismiss the issue as just "one of the oddities of American society, that we're cowboys and carry guns."
"The inability to manage basic safety for citizens contributes to an image that we are, unfortunately, seeing more and more evidence of, of people in foreign societies who believe that democracy is a dysfunctional form of government," he said.
"Even though we've always fallen short at home, democracy nonetheless is an important part of our international brand, and this definitely diminishes that."
Gerard Araud, the outspoken former French ambassador to the United States, on Twitter described gun violence as a "craziness without any prospect of improvement."
"Nothing. Nothing will happen. There will be more massacres," he wrote.

What to expect from a cowboy land leh?
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(26-05-2022, 08:14 AM)Sticw Wrote:  Bacuase the original intent for personal arms is not for pointing at others but for pointing at the govt in times of a bad administration. That was how they had conceived during the formative years of USA.

The govt would love entire population without arms. That makes it easier to control and contain.

From what I know, it is also for pointing to others (as in for offense rather than defense), just not stated in the 2nd amendment.

USA needs its citizens to get used to armaments for its outward invasions. If the citizens are less bloodthirsty, it would hinder its global strategy.
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more like loca Americans are victims of US corporation own by England
their taxes are used to pay for USTs benefiting the J e w s
they r called citizens meaning employees of said Corporation.
If they lose their guns their cocks and clitorises will be cut.
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America is most ready for a civil war. Everybody has lots of guns, can create their own military groups easily
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It's in their genes to kill people..
Nowadays , no red indians to kill they kill children lah.
Dangerous cowboy cunty n yet silly people call them beautiful cunty to seduce people to go there.
Shd b renamed Dangerous ciwboy cunty
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(26-05-2022, 09:03 AM)Levin Wrote:  From what I know, it is also for pointing to others (as in for offense rather than defense), just not stated in the 2nd amendment.

USA needs its citizens to get used to armaments for its outward invasions. If the citizens are less bloodthirsty, it would hinder its global strategy.

That law was only relevant 200 years ago and now it sounds very uncivilised.
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(26-05-2022, 10:59 AM)Yin yang Wrote:  It's in their genes to kill people..
Nowadays  , no red indians to kill  they kill children lah.
Dangerous cowboy cunty n yet silly people call them beautiful cunty to seduce people to go there.
Shd b renamed Dangerous ciwboy cunty

This is not the last incident, more killings are underway in the coming months and years, more people will die.
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