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Originally Posted by phoenix
. Defining the us as a war zone seems pretty insulting to the many countries who haven't seen running water, sewerage, or electricity in years. Not to mention the "right to carry a gun" being very different to having constant gunfire all around you. Not that there is no need in first world countries, but its a very different context.
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Ignoring the cities in America where there is at least one gun-related homicide a day is insulting to the many people who live in the absolute terror of the violence in America which kills tens of thousands of people a year. The people who kill each other with these guns were not walking around with them as some kind of right, in fact what they are doing is more a crime than it is to carry a gun in other countries.
I called it a warzone because it is a warzone. There are many shots fired in several neighborhoods here in Los Angeles as there are in going off in baghdad or mogadishu, the difference is there are not explosions, and that is because the police forces often have more boots on the ground than there are in many war-zone cities..
oh yeah, and there are also thousands of americans who themselves live without vital services such as running water or electricity, living in rural poverty.
the point of all this, is for Americans to remember their country is far from perfect, and those things which afflict the world which most Americans, and in fact many people across the world, do not realize occur in the same and even greater numbers in American than in so-called third world countries.
More Americans were killed by gun violence in America this year than in Afghanistan and Iraq combined, probably ten times that number!
Again I say, pray for us all.