How China views gun sales in America

[Mr.Davis]

you post that as if it was a change from what they had before. the middle class that was lost after the Revolution has returned with a vengeance...much faster and more powerful than the Central Committee expected

Again, you're getting really wrapped around the axle when that's not my point.

Let's strip it all down: The Chinese have a history of governments that deserve to be feared. They recognize that we wrote the RKBA into our Constitution to protect against tyrannical governments.

This is an easy concept for them to understand because they have experienced so much unrest and government-sponsored tyranny. It's hard for our average anti-gunner whose idea of a crisis is a shortage of tomato paste on spaghetti night. A government that turns violently against its people (or one particular group) is not an abstract concept to the Chinese. It's just that to the average American.

 

[Fatelvis]

Who really cares what China thinks?

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I know I dont care what China thinks, or any other country for that matter.

Way to completely miss the point, guys.

Mr. Davis, I'm sorry for the rash way of answering the thread, but lately it seems this country is overly concerned with the opinions of outside Countries. China in particular, is getting under my skin, with thier toxic products being sold here, and how we owe them more money than we'll ever be able to repay. I think our relationship with them is becoming one of dependance, which is the first straw of the demise of this Country. We're selling this place to them!

 

[9mmepiphany]

A government that turns violently against its people (or one particular group) is not an abstract concept to the Chinese. It's just that to the average American.

i'll agree with this...i sometimes forget that many folks have forgotten about WWII

 

[Hatterasguy]

This is an easy concept for them to understand because they have experienced so much unrest and government-sponsored tyranny. It's hard for our average anti-gunner whose idea of a crisis is a shortage of tomato paste on spaghetti night. A government that turns violently against its people (or one particular group) is not an abstract concept to the Chinese. It's just that to the average American.

Exactly. They can appreciate our right to bear arms much better than we can because we havn't experianced tyranny since we drove the British out. Our Founding Fathers knew what it was like. They knew what could happen when good governments go bad. The Chinese live with that every day, they live with a government that could take everything from them one day for no reason and ship them off to prison for the rest of their lives.

People forget that, or say it can't happen here. They said the exact same thing in Germany in the 1930's. They beleived it to right up until the Gestapo came knocking.

It was a very interesting post.

 

[killchain]

I don't think the point of posting this was that we are supposed to "care" what people from other places think.

You don't have to "care" (read, react to, agree with, internalize, abide by, etc) what other people think to learn something from their words.

In this case I'm refreshed to discover that things which I hold to be true and dear to me -- but which are sometimes refuted, ignored, or denigrated by some of my fellow citizens -- may be understood intitively (absent even the supporting social context) by people from other places.

When random Chinese people observing a photograph from a WalMart and a brief caption of explanation can inferr the entire basis of what it (should) mean to us to be a full Citizen of a free country endowed by our Creator/Nature with the right to access to lethal force and the responsibility to resist tyrranical rule -- well, that is just about breath-taking. Quite a validation of the clarity of our own framers' vision of what our country could, should, and MUST be.

I completely second this.

 

[9mmepiphany]

they live with a government that could take everything from them one day for no reason and ship them off to prison for the rest of their lives.

People forget that, or say it can't happen here. They said the exact same thing in Germany in the 1930's. They beleived it to right up until the Gestapo came knocking.

they don't even need to look that far abroad, just look what Americans did to the Japanese in continental United States during that war

 

[Mr.Davis]

Mr. Davis, I'm sorry for the rash way of answering the thread, but lately it seems this country is overly concerned with the opinions of outside Countries. China in particular, is getting under my skin, with thier toxic products being sold here, and how we owe them more money than we'll ever be able to repay. I think our relationship with them is becoming one of dependance, which is the first straw of the demise of this Country. We're selling this place to them!

I was just pointing out that nobody was implying that we should alter our opinions based on what the Chinese folks said about Walmart. This thread, unless I've totally missed the point, was just a look at their perceptions of us, and it was shockingly positive. That's crazy, the leftists tell me the whole world hates us!

they don't even need to look that far abroad, just look what Americans did to the Japanese in continental United States during that war

Very true. It sounds bad to say, but legitimate US citizens of Japanese heritage would have had every right to resist their incarceration with deadly force, in my opinion.

That's actually a great example to use for antis that scoff at the "tyranny" defense of 2A rights.

 

[El Clerkino]

Great Read. It seems to me they have a lot of respect for us and a greater understanding of RKBA than some people on THR. Most people are caught up in spewing Mcarthyism's in one form or another at each other they forget how good we have it in the US of A.