How China views gun sales in America

[harmonic]

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pict...marts-chinese-netizen-reactions.html#comments





This is how America’s Wal-Mart sell guns (This is from the prospective of a visiting Chinese tourist.



Today, while visiting Wal-Mart, I took a photo while at the gun sales counter. The guns were sold in a rotating glass display case just like this with price tags attached. If interested, you just ask the salesperson to take it out for you to examine. Being able to buy a gun while buying groceries at Wal-Mart, convenient.

In this glass display case are different types of ammunition.




(Comments section)

I’d like to ask the lou zhu a question. It may be very naive but please be so kind as to give me an answer. Since guns are sold like this in America, is their government not afraid of social problems? Right now in Shanghai, the supermarkets selling cooking knives have also locked them inside glass display cases like this.

Because the hostility between their people is not as deep as it is with us, which is to say they are harmonious in the true meaning and not river crab. Hehe.

China bans guns and aside from political reasons, it may be because the government has considered that there are too many neurotic people in China, people who will bark/howl for no reason. If these kind of people had guns, imagine how bad it would be. (I’m referring to the issue, not people, so I hope certain people will keep that in mind before responding).

I think the American Constitution has a part that says the citizens have the right to overthrow an authoritarian government…it is what I have heard, not sure if it is true or not.

But in China, that is not possible, and the key is that the character of the people [on average] is not there yet. If firearms were available for sale in China, then we’d probably have to wear bullet-proof vests in order to go out.

Our country’s people have treachery/trouble-making in their bones. You can see it now, in all of China, no one respects anyone else. Learned men scorn each other and military men are lowly to each other, this place cursing that place. If everyone in China had guns, then the country would be torn apart. Even though everyone speaks Chinese, everyone has a different heart. Are we lacking lessons from history?!!

Only with citizens who have high restraint and a society with relatively few injustices would [a country] dare be like this.

If this were China, the number of crime-related deaths would increase ten times. Therefore, America’s gun deaths is still very little. In the future [if guns were allowed in China], those who are involved in forced demolitions and chengguan would not be so niubi anymore. Pressure us and they’ll just shoot you a few times.

America is a country that was built up from the first shot of the Battle of Lexington.

And the biggest reason they were victorious at the time was because the ordinary people had guns.

When everyone has guns, no one is afraid of a few people having guns. If it is fear of overthrowing the government, there is no need. If the current government in power truly doesn’t follow the people’s will, in four years at most, they will have to step down and at worst there are still impeachment procedures. There is no need to use knives and guns [no need for violence], truly not worth it. If one wants to express one’s political views, one can organize one’s own political party. Although America in reality is only a two-party system, there still exist other political parties, and what more, the constitution protects the participation of every political party, with the most powerful non-mainstream parties like the Green Party normally getting around 10% of the vote. If one day, this party were to replace the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, the constitution would also protect it. And when there is social disorder, there is the SWAT. With so many people having guns in America, I don’t think a little handgun or a small hunting rifle can cause any social impact.

The reason why America allows the ordinary people to possess guns is to prevent dictatorship…when that happens, the people can revolt…

Over time, Americans have developed the habit of not using guns even if they have them. Or maybe they are bound by ideas of individual heroism, believing that men should use fists to fight it out, and not relying on guns.

But in our country, the once proper so quick to resort to taking up knives, if there were guns, definitely within 10 years, the population of Chinese people would probably be reduced by half…haha.

PS: America as a country has the highest penetration of firearms in the world, with one gun per capita, but the number of Americans that die under the barrel of a gun are only a trivial 30,000…

 

[General Geoff]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

 

[SoberSunday01]

I'm not sure where you were going with this, but I hope they view us with a twinge of jealousy. I think every American gun owner should be a model of safe and responsible gun ownership. I am trying my best to be that type of person. Safe and responsible gun owners will do nothing but benefit the society they live in. Right?

 

[preachnhunt]

Thanks for posting. it looks like some of the chinese respondents have a better understanding of our rights than many of our own people.

 

[harmonic]

I'm not sure where you were going with this

They understand our Constitutional guarantees better than many of our politicians.

The reason why America allows the ordinary people to possess guns is to prevent dictatorship…when that happens, the people can revolt…

 

[Sam1911]

That is humbling. Those observers, raised so differently from any of "us" and (for lack of a more appropriate word) indoctrinated into a system of government, and culture supporting it, wholly authoritarian -- discern so clearly how our culture both empowers us and leads us to show personal restraint and responsibility.

I doubt 1 out of 10 "men on the street" here in the U.S. could explain this so well.

Harmonic, thank you for sharing this.

 

[jfh]

I found it was worthwhile to follow the link--I was able to read more comments, which I are assume were translated from the native Chinese. It's a mixed bag of commentary, ranging from trolls on up--but, when I read more, I felt like I was gaining some insight into how 'typical' / younger Chinese, with Internet access, view the US.

Jim H.

 

[Onward Allusion]

Refreshing that some foreigners understand our constitution (at least the 2nd amendment) better than some politicians.

 

[Webbj0219]

Reminds me of something Ive learned with dealing with children. They will usually rise to the level of expectation. How this relates? If a government treats its citizens like imature children then thats probable how they are going to behave. If they are treated as mature and allowed responsibility then they will live up to that. The USA government assumes that we will be responsible with guns and in turn allows them freely(for the most part). And we act responsibly with them(for the most part).

One another note Guns arent really needed. Im sure citizens could overthrough the government without them. You could go and attack someone breaking into your house with your fists. Or hike in bear country with nothing but a walking stick. May be simpler that way. But for me Id rather have a gun. makes my contribution more effective.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

I have a friend that lives in China. She believes that gun ownership would be good regardless of being raised in China.

 

[mljdeckard]

Um, yeah. wow. I never would have expected such knowledgeable insights on a board of theirs. I certainly would have to cheat to be able to comment on their system as they did on ours.

The majority of them know EXACTLY what the RKBA means and what difference it makes in our lives.

 

[migkillertwo]

Go to a real gun shop that has the M1As, AR-15s, and AK-47s hanging behind the main showcase and show your buddies!

 

[Buck Snort]

I've been to China three times, I like the Chinese. They are a warm people if treated decently. Their government SUCKS even worse than ours but the people are really good.

 

[JoeSlomo]

So many folks just don't appreciate what we have here in the states, and for most, it will take LOSING our rights and privileges before they do.

Look at our dismal voting record...

Very few folks vote, however, tell them they CAN'T and see what happens.

 

[dmancornell]

I grew up over there. All the schools there teach the kids to trust and love their tyrants. This kind of independent thinking is refreshing.

 

[heron]

Strangely fitting, to see this posted on Independence Day . . .

 

[menacingsquirrel]

heron, well said!

 

[Beagle-zebub]

The first comple comments were the best: the ones about how the Chinese are too instinctively troublesome, or twitchy, to own guns. And understand that by "best," I mean the most insane.

China bans guns and aside from political reasons, it may be because the government has considered that there are too many neurotic people in China, people who will bark/howl for no reason.

--Chinese Citizen

That's sig-line material right there

 

[jeepguy]

good post, it is fascinating how other people from all parts of the world view us.

 

[toycruiser71]

Great post. Thank you for sharing it!

 

[nathan]

I met several Hongkong citizens who are now in the US. This was at the range and this one guy has an expensive beltfed RPD weapon, I think its made out of a Polish kit sold by classicarms.us. He was shooting nonstop finishing the 75 rds. And they were nice to let me squeeze a few rounds out of that nice set up.

 

[MinnMooney]

it looks like some of the chinese respondents have a better understanding of our rights than many of our own people.

Ya beat me to it, preachnhunt.

 

[Hondo 60]

I'd be willing to bet that after an initial adjustment period, China would have the same problems as America if they were allowed to have guns.

99% of the population would respectful, law abiding citizens & 1% would be the criminal element.


Of course during the adjustment period, there would be civil anarchy.

(not that war is anything to smile about)

 

[Guns and more]

How China views gun sales in America

I hope it scares the crap out of them.

"You will never defeat the U.S. There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

 

[NMGonzo]

As a foreigner in the U.S. I concur with the Chinese posters.

No dictator of any persuasion will last long as long as the common-folk is armed.

The privately owned "evil black rifle" IS the arm of the "check and balance" system.

Signed.

Owner of a "evil black rifle".