Ruthless Critisicm (July 2012)
Von webmaster • Juli 23rd, 2012 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Critisicm (July 2012):
The Massacre in Colorado: Guns as bourgeois freedom
On July 20 2012, a gunman appears in a movie theater in Colorado wearing body armor and a gas mask, armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a .40-caliber handgun, and kills at least 12 people and wounds 59. As is usual whenever the “long chronicle of violence”
in the USA is extended by another spectacular murderous deed, the debate about access to guns is roused. In this way, the attack tells us something about the quite normal peaceful everyday life in the USA.
That is, it’s by no means unusual that a young man could stockpile an arsenal big enough for a “small military unit” on account of “liberal gun laws” in the land of boundless opportunities. There are, according to estimates by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (sic!), about 223 million firearms in private hands. Every fourth American owns one or more such “peacekeepers” – a reason to alarm “moderate opinion makers”; especially when, once again, somebody has turned a workplace, a school or a movie theater into a slaughterhouse. On the other hand, “gun control” is truly “fighting words” in the “land of the free.” (…)
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