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Rwanda: Guns Have No Place in Homes
allafrica.com ^ | 2/8/2015 | Sophie Kamya

Posted on 02/10/2015 11:47:04 AM PST by rktman

I'm anti-guns, and I don't apologise for that.

If there's one thing that has caused pain and suffering the world over, it is a gun. A trigger is pulled and just like that, the target, intended or otherwise is wounded or killed.

Now if it's war or any other serious conflict that requires the engagement of a country's armed forces to protect territorial and other interests, that's different. What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when civilians stock up on guns and ammunition. I have never owned a gun and I don't wish to do so. I just wish gun owners who're not law enforcers felt the same way.

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To: rktman

Irony is that the Rwandan genocide—of about 2 million people murdered in 3 months, back in ‘95—was done overwhelmingly WITHOUT guns—rather machetes and axes....


41 posted on 02/10/2015 12:53:03 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: rktman

A trigger is pulled and just like that, the target, intended or otherwise is wounded or killed.

So the person comes along and finds this gun standing at attention pointing at someone but it just needs help with the trigger?

I never knew Guns could hate.


42 posted on 02/10/2015 12:54:27 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: rktman

When the government disarms ALL the criminals and then disarms itself, I’ll disarm, too, maybe.


43 posted on 02/10/2015 1:20:34 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Socialism has killed over 100 million in the past 100 years.


44 posted on 02/10/2015 1:21:21 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: rktman
What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when civilians stock up on guns and ammunition.

You then have to be one disturbed individual and I'm proud to have contributed to that.
45 posted on 02/10/2015 1:30:19 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: rktman

What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when civilians stock up on guns and ammunition. I have never owned a gun and I don’t wish to do so. I just wish gun owners who’re not law enforcers felt the same way

Please provide exact directions to your abode and leave the door unlocked


46 posted on 02/10/2015 1:40:16 PM PST by acehai
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To: Tenacious 1

I don’t think mary-jane even grows well in that part of the world...just sayin


47 posted on 02/10/2015 1:40:39 PM PST by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. ¡Si se puede!)
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To: rktman
Guns have no place in homes.

Correction: Uninvited guns have no place in my home. Invited guns are there to enforce this policy.

48 posted on 02/10/2015 1:49:58 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: rktman; Bob Ireland

A great example of why warlords, homicidal tribal leaders & tyrants have ruled most of Africa throughout recorded history. No matter what these maniac leaders do, the populace cannot wait to make these kind of people their savior. Remember Dada Idi Amin?


49 posted on 02/10/2015 2:06:03 PM PST by Q-ManRN (Progressivism is rngegressive!)
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To: ealgeone

Rwandans themselves should disagree with it; hundreds of thousands were hacked to death over the course of months because they were unarmed.


50 posted on 02/10/2015 3:02:13 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MeshugeMikey
we must adhere to Meme TRadtions!!

Somebody set up us the bomb.

51 posted on 02/10/2015 3:05:38 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: rktman
Maybe when the "security enforcers" with guns come to gang-rape her, she'll change her tune.

Or maybe they'll just kill her afterwards...

52 posted on 02/10/2015 3:13:28 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: asinclair
"We're from the government, and we are here to help you.

You misspelled "gruberment" (rule of the stupid by sociopathic liars)...

53 posted on 02/10/2015 3:16:08 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

ahaha MIDNIGHT ARCHERY!!! love it!


54 posted on 02/10/2015 3:16:25 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: GregoTX
Then don't buy one. Don't worry about what I own or buy or own.

Just because you don't want one don't ask for laws around the world to outlaw things you don't want to own and allow things you do want.

To paraphrase Sophie's article above: What is disturbing and in my opinion unnecessary is when stupid people stock up on oxygen that intelligent people could be breathing.

I have never been stupid and I don't wish to be so. I just wish stupid people who're not intelligent felt the same way about wasting precious oxygen. "It's for the smart children", Sophie.

55 posted on 02/10/2015 3:21:41 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: rktman

99% of the people killed in the Rwandan massacre were killed with machetes.

So let’s focus on guns.

Makes sense to me/s

Come and get em morons.


56 posted on 02/10/2015 7:17:00 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

” Socialism has killed over 100 million in the past 100 years.”

And the left thinks it was never applied correctly.


57 posted on 02/11/2015 7:28:10 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

And it would have worked if they had killed a few million more.


58 posted on 02/11/2015 7:29:17 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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