Sec of State Kerry: Guns are scaring away foreign students

[wojownik]

Contriving yet another angle to prop up the administrations all-out push for gun control, see Secretary of State Kerry's comments on how foreign students are staying away from US schools for fear of gun violence.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...ign-students-scared-of-guns-in-u-s/?hpt=hp_t3

While he claims that "they (Japanese students) think they're not safe in the United States and so they don't come" ... the article goes on to note that Japanese studying abroad are down across the board, not just the U.S. But of course the article does not call Kerry out for making stuff up about guns and foreign students.

Kerry also seems to side with Japan's severe firearms ownership restrictions.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Yea,

Give away our rights so foreign students won't get scared away.

Next thing you know Lurch will say Chinese communist students scared away cause we can talk freely, thus we don't need free speech either.

Deaf

 

[Texan Scott]

I refuse to surrender my rights to placate whingeing AMERICANS..
The opinions of FOREIGNERS matter how?

 

[freewheeling]

This guy has always reminded me of some of the inbred "Princelings" that ruled Europe after the decline of the Roman Empire and before the rise of the Franks. I'm sure there's a genetic explanation.

 

[Kiln]

Yea,

Give away our rights so foreign students won't get scared away.

Next thing you know Lurch will say Chinese communist students scared away cause we can talk freely, thus we don't need free speech either.

Deaf

+1

That's exactly how it goes. Give up your rights so somebody else can be comfortable.

 

[Reloadron]

Kerry must be talking to different students and Japanese Nationals than those I have. The Japanese I have had experience with were pretty fun and humorous people.

On a first visit to the US most foreign nationals look forward to trying and doing all the things that they can't do in their native country, including the Japanese. Just about all the ones I had experience with were in a hurry to go to a range and try shooting. Granted, my experiences were many years ago but I just don't see where this has changed today.

Unless of course you find that few in a hundred and prop them up as an example in which case they can stay home.

Ron

 

[PabloJ]

Contriving yet another angle to prop up the administrations all-out push for gun control, see Secretary of State Kerry's comments on how foreign students are staying away from US schools for fear of gun violence.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...ign-students-scared-of-guns-in-u-s/?hpt=hp_t3

While he claims that "they (Japanese students) think they're not safe in the United States and so they don't come" ... the article goes on to note that Japanese studying abroad are down across the board, not just the U.S. But of course the article does not call Kerry out for making stuff up about guns and foreign students.

Kerry also seems to side with Japan's severe firearms ownership restrictions.

Gee, tell him not to worry we will still get immigrants and kids from developing countries. It's all good...... now 'Kerry' can be happy and hop on one leg and wiggle the other.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Sec of State Kerry: Guns are scaring away foreign students

Rhetoric about guns (mainly from anti-gun blatherers) may be scaring away Japanese students.

If Japanese students are scared away by guns, why do Japanese tourists go to U.S. shooting ranges to do the Thing Forbidden in their homeland, rent and shoot guns at targets?

 

[OilyPablo]

Figures have shown international study is down markedly among Japanese students to all destinations, including the United States. Experts have attributed the decline to Japan's low birthrate, the expense of foreign study in a poor economy, and a desire among Japanese young people to remain at home rather than venture to other countries.

Another Democrat vomiting on us.

He noted Japan's restrictive gun laws – which prevent private ownership of nearly all firearms, including handguns – and said the country was safer "where people are not running around with guns."

 

[Pilot]

Has he looked at the actual statistics for violent crime in the U.S.? Another anti-law abiding citizen control freak.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Contriving yet another angle to prop up the administrations all-out push for gun control, see Secretary of State Kerry's comments on how foreign students are staying away from US schools for fear of gun violence.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...ign-students-scared-of-guns-in-u-s/?hpt=hp_t3

While he claims that "they (Japanese students) think they're not safe in the United States and so they don't come" ... the article goes on to note that Japanese studying abroad are down across the board, not just the U.S. But of course the article does not call Kerry out for making stuff up about guns and foreign students.

Kerry also seems to side with Japan's severe firearms ownership restrictions.

If fhey dont like guns why do I see them at the range all of the time.

 

[Midwest]

I guess Kerry must have missed this story......


"Foreign tourists take their shot at gun ranges"

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2006/apr/01/foreign-tourists-take-their-shot-at-gun-ranges/

Tourists, armed with machine guns, line up to mock-massacre paper targets of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein - near life-size images doctored so the international villains make eye contact from across the range.

For foreigners, there's another thrill that comes from firing a gun illegal in your hometown and feared in your homeland. It's a shot at emulating a movie, bad guy or good. At the Firearms Center, translators make customers more comfortable by speaking to them in Mandarin, Chinese, Taiwanese or Spanish.

 

[beatledog7]

Obviously not all cultures share this fear of firearms.

 

[YZ]

xxx

 

[HankR]

If fhey dont like guns why do I see them at the range all of the time.

This.

Our church has a college youth group. The best attended event every year is the range day where the students can try out a variety of firearms. The local kids range (in their terminology) from "Meh, guns" to "cool, free ammo". The really excited ones that seem to be having the most fun don't look like they're from around here. The ones that bring huge groups of friends the next year are not from around here. Luckily they speak English well enough that I can be certain they have internalized the four rules before we get to the line. A good time is had by all.

 

[pockets]

What Kerry actually said was somewhat meaningless (as quoted from the article);
"and one of the responses I got from our officials from conversations with parents here is that they're actually scared. They think they're not safe in the United States and so they don't come," Kerry said."

So....'ONE' of the responses (of how many other responses?) from 'THE PARENTS' as relayed to Kerry second-hand through 'our officials' was that someone is scared.
It's the old; a friend of my mother's cousin twice-removed told me......maybe.

NOTE: It is no surprise Kerry's blurb comes to us a day or two after the President wails about how we need to get more foreign students to come to the USA to better our country's economy. So gun control now becomes an economic growth issue as well?
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[Pilot]

Progressive statists like Kerry will say anything, and/or use any situation to advance taking legally owned guns away from law abiding citizens. Enforce existing laws, and sentence criminals that use guns in crime to severe sentences. How about talking about that Kerry?

 

[W L Johnson]

Someone tell Kerry that gangs is spelled g-a-n-g-s not g-u-n-s

 

[oneounceload]

Maybe we're scaring away the students, but when those Japanese tourists come to Vegas, the gun rental ranges, especially the full -auto ones, are jammed packed

 

[MtnCreek]

That's too bad. You can tell it's bothering Kerry, just look at his long face.

 

[AlexanderA]

I've met Japanese tourists at gun events (gun shows, etc.) that have come to the U.S. precisely because of the chance they get to shoot, something they can't do in their home country. I'll bet such people outnumber the supposed Japanese students who won't come to the U.S. because of their fear of guns.

 

[scaatylobo]

Whaaaaat ?

Kerry --- just tell them that ALL campuses are GUN FREE ZONES.

that what you tell all our students to stop them from being armed and defending themselves.

 

[foghornl]

Last time I went to one of the full-auto rental ranges in Las Vegas, I had to wait a while behind all the Asian tourists that wanted to shoot.

One said "Now I understand why the Americans loved the M1 Rifle*** so much in WWII. No way we could have invaded the West Coast."

But I wonder if those foreign students are as afraid of civilians with guns as Kerry was of the Shore Batteries in Viet Nam.


*** Not full auto, but a favorite among the tourists that I saw a few years back.

 

[hso]

We're at an all time low for violent crime rate in 20 years and Kerry can't point this out because it doesn't fit the agenda.

The concerns foreigners have about their safety is a function of the remarkable level of biased sensationalistic reporting that American "news" media flood all of us with and the stunning violence in "entertainment" broadcast around the world. People used to thing America was all gangsters during the Edward G. Robinson era and now they think America is all gang bangers and armed militias. We create the impression the rest of the world has and Kerry betrays his positon by playing to those prejudices.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I personally know a number of Japanese that come here to enjoy a little "gun freedom" that they don't have back home. I guess it balances out.