U.K. columnist asks if world should intervene to stop U.S. ‘gun violence

examiner ^ | 9/22/13 | David Codrea

[Nachum]

America is “gripped by civil war” if the “death toll from firearms” is any measure, and the international community should intervene if its policies are to be consistent. That’s the speculative premise of a Saturday polemic in The Observer by Henry Porter, “a journalist specialising in liberty and civil rights.”

Really. How very Orwellian. But then again, for “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.

“American gun use is out of control,” Porter’s headline generalizes and concludes right from the start.

“[W]hat if we no longer thought of this as just a problem for America,” he asks, “and, instead, viewed it as an international humanitarian crisis -- a quasi civil war, if you like, that calls for outside intervention?”

As for the Second Amendment, “derived from English common law and our 1689 Bill of Rights”?

“We dispensed with these rights long ago, but American gun owners cleave to them with the tenacity that previous generations fought to continue slavery,” he proudly and insultingly proclaims, astonished that owning a gun “is mostly seen as a matter of personal safety,” that is, “when [it’s] not about ludicrous macho fantasy.”

[MasterGunner01]

Well, the UK columnist, Henry Porter, should ask the UN who has the balls to try it. Even Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1941 understood that trying to invade America would be met “by a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

Besides, how does he propose the UN send in “peacekeepers”? The USAF handles that job for the UN. How will the UN mount a D-Day invasion of the United States?

[thorvaldr]

Come take em limey scum
Worked so well last time

[elteemike]

My reply to Henry Porter and The Guardian:

Borrowing your line...

“Come and take them, Henry...

Our forefathers handled people of your ilk several times in the past...King George and his Red Coats, Hitler, Tojo, The USSR, etc...

Don’t make the mistake of trusting the current generation of Americans are not up to the task...Oh, wait...Go ahead and underestimate us...Send in the Blue Helmets...I dare you...

I suggest you lead the first wave of confiscation, personally...I’m locked, loaded and behind my blade of grass...Ready?”

[Balding_Eagle]

Rather than fight defense over this, we could fight offense.

Let’s take this battle to THEIR streets.

[Gene Eric]

The Brits would love to castrate the United States.

[Big Mack]

This poppycock must have attended public school in the US. He doesn't know any history. What happened the last time the brits wanted to disarm us!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh tell the world to come on over and and try to intervene. That will be the shortest intervention in history. :-)

[RebelTex]

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

[Kartographer]

[no-to-illegals]

America, We’re Taking This Country Back ... Dirt Road Anthem ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9q1ScC4cg

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

[RebelTex]

I may want to get back a little further than you, lol.

Behind The Dixie Stars

And now for your listening pleasure, one of my favorite songs:

Rebel Rouser

FReegards,

RebelTex

[RebelTex]

And thank you for that song: “Dirt Road Anthem”.

I enjoyed that - it took me back a ways.

[caww]

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Two places they could start...Chicago and Kenya might be a good idea. ‘Arm everybody’...end of story..no more crime.

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You! It would be great if all Americans knew the true history of the Confederacy and not the lie. Yes, you definitely took me back a ways and for that you have my appreciation.