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British writer calls for UN intervention in the US gun crisis

I couldn't find a better video to summarize what he said, so here's the article: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/american-gun-out-control-porter[/url] [quote]Although it was brave of Howard Schultz, the company's chief executive, to go even this far in a country where people are better armed and only slightly less nervy than rebel fighters in Syria, we should note that dealing with the risks of scalding and secondary smoke came well before addressing the problem of people who go armed to buy a latte. As citizens of the world, perhaps we should demand an end to the unimaginable suffering of victims and their families – the maiming and killing of children – just as America does in every new civil conflict around the globe. That 212,994 more Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last 45 years than in all wars involving the US is a staggering fact, particularly when you place it in the context of the safety-conscious, "secondary smoke" obsessions that characterise so much of American life If any European nation had such a record and persisted in addressing only the first figure, while ignoring the second, you can bet your last pound that the State Department would be warning against travel to that country and no American would set foot in it without body armour.[/quote] I'm pretty sure this isn't serious (like the UN could do anything) but rather calling us out on our interventions in other countries while ignoring problems at home.

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  • hehehe, old, andlol. OP-ed , not an article of news.

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  • Yawn More people obsessed with America because they don't live here. What else is new?

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    • He's just another naive fool that has not been properly educated on this subject.

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    • If young people stopped joining gangs US crime rate would plummet.

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    • [quote]Talking to American friends, I always sense a kind of despair that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge and that nothing will ever change. The same resignation was evident in President Obama's rather lifeless reaction to the Washington shooting last week. There is absolutely nothing he can do, which underscores the fact that America is in a jam and that international pressure may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot stand idly by.[/quote] So much BS in that article. The problem isn't a weapons problem, it's a cultural/societal problem. The vast majority of firearm homicide is gang-related violence. Want to reduce that number? Educate the youth and make an effort to steer them away from those violent lifestyles, while simultaneously putting an effort into shutting down gangs. Some of the worst acts of violence were caused not with firearms, but bags of fertilizer and explosives. Killing people isn't new, and it isn't going to end anytime soon. The only reason guns are in the spotlight is because they're big, black, and scary and people don't have any legitimate information about them aside from the garbage the American Media Circus throws out on an almost daily basis.

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      • Lol, we are on the security council. It would never happen.

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      • What a troll

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      • Schultz should have kept his mouth shut and should've known people would misinterpret what he said.

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      • How the hell would that solve anything? The UN coming in and taking everyone's guns is [b]exactly [/b]what all the gun nuts are afraid of. There would be mass rioting. Gunfights in the streets. There would be countless deaths. It would do more harm than good.

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        • Excellent piece. Lol @ the retards ITT who seriously think he wants a UN intervention.

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          • So we can stab each other to death instead?

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          • I'd rather live in Syria than 'murica.

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          • Oh look, some British person complaining 'bout 'Murika. Nothing new here.

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          • Eh, good to get a third opinion

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