China's Gun Control Policy

http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states-presidential-election

--------Voting Age Population---Turnout ------Percentage of VAP----------
2004-----215,694,000---------122,295,345--------56.69%-----------------

 

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samcdkey it is called do the research before you shove your foot down your throat.

 

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Thats the highest its been for some time (and not including the 40% for the midterms) and that's all the people that turned out after 5 years of a disastrous war and an international joke for a President.

Besides, see the average for the US.

http://www.idea.int/vt/survey/voter_turnout_pop2.cfm

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/02/us_and_local_vo.html

Not to mention the politics of voting
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17102317.htm

 

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Different countries have different methods.

I think South Korea has strict anti-gun laws, and sure enough, there isn't much gun crime there. And yes, South Korea is a vibrant democratic success. Not a strict communist government like China.

I think America's system works for America, and the Chinese system works for China.

I don't know why people are complaining about America's gun laws. Remember: "guns don't kill people. People kill people".

 

Uh, hello, not to forget history, but like, uh, almost 70 years ago, the Japs were barbarians slaughtering people of any non-Japanese nationality worse than the Nazis did -- at least the Nazi's stuck to a few groups of people, the Japs just killed you if you weren't a Jap.

The only reason why they're so nice and submissive now is because we literally bombed em to submission. It'll be amusing to see how they turn out the next 50 years as they continue to be more independent as their post WWII restrictive laws are being slowly removed. Will they again become warlike? I dunno about you, but since their military is climbing and they want to develop nukes, let's see what a country rich in culture, a type of culture that doesn't forget, turn out to be like..

- N

 

Neildo, Your scaring me you actually made sense.

 

Does that mean democracy cannot be spread?

 

Democracy can spread, but as it's a voluntary system, rather than one that's forced upon people, the people must decide to "spread" it. Communism or socialism, on the other hand, are forced systems, and can be "spread".

Baron Max

 

And what about those who attack communist and socialist countries? What are they spreading?

 

And only a century and a half ago, America was engaged in exterminating the red man. Only a century ago, America was busy waging a genocidal war for control of the Phillipines. And let's not forget Jim Crow.
Pot kettle black, asshole.

 

Roman

Were do you get your history from? as for the Philippines, we freed them from the Spanish, kept the Moro's Moslems from overrunning the island, and eventually gave them their freedom, as we promised, we established a safe zone so they could stabilize their government, and they have survived ever since, Genocidal War? didn't do so good at wiping them out did we?

 

You're so full of revisionist bull shit, buffaloturd. You're worse than a liberal.

 

Roman from what I know of history we would have given the Philippines their independence by 1942 except that the Japanese started WWII and invaded the Philippines, as it was on July 4, 1946 the United States gave them their Independence. So please provide some proof of your (genocidal war for control of the Phillipines) some historical proof, like orders issued by the U.S. Government for the extermination of the People of the Philippines.

 

Here's a wikipedia article.

 

He was in Vietnam. He's probably done the same kind of stuff.

Watch the CYA in action.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot.
Would you spit on Buffalo Roam? I sure would. Fucking baby killer.

 

What would be the point? It wouldn't bring any of the dead babies back.

I never waste my energy on futilities.

 

But it would make BR feel bad. Making people feel bad is never a waste of time.

 

America's gun laws, and private gun ownership, have a lot to do with the differences between the governments of the US and China.

America had an armed peasantry - firearmed peasants, with military grade weapons - from day one. Think that may have made a difference in Chinese - or even Japanese - history?

But the US did make way too much of a mystique about them - Canada managed democracy and freedom without inundating its city ghettos with cheap handguns.

 

fraggle: the fact is you do not need an autocratic govt to enforce strict gun laws. you compare america to china and say that youd rather have gun culture than no freedom. fair enough. what about finland, austria, sweden, france, switzerland, spain germany, denmark.... the list goes on and on. these countries are certaintly democracies, and they suffer from far fewer gun related murders than the United States