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Communist China Gripes About American Gun Ownership

Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, is said to have said,

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

His concern lives on behind the Bamboo Curtain:

A report issued by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China has included U.S. gun ownership among a list of human rights violations, Law Enforcement Examiner Jim Kouri reported [Monday]. “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011″ was published last Friday on the PRC’s Consulate General in New York website. …

Predictably, the report presents many of the same cherry-picked arguments used by “leading” U.S. and international “gun control” organizations that totally ignore the protective benefits of arms in private hands. And, as typical with advocates of a centralized monopoly of violence, Chinese-style genocide, which resulted in government-caused deaths of unknown tens of millions of defenseless human beings in the 20th Century, and the current brutal occupation and tyrannical suppression of Tibetan sovereignty, is left unacknowledged. Left unsaid is the inconvenient truth that rendering captive populations unable to resist makes such monstrous crimes against humanity not only possible, but inevitable.

Now why would the communist Chinese want the American population to be disarmed? Are they afraid we’ll take revolvers out of our nightstands and cross the vast Pacific to overthrow their oppressive regime? Or, might someone else be thinking of crossing the ocean in the foreseeable future?

Here’s another quote, from John Adams:
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

The second approach has been working fine for the ChiComs, but maybe they are hedging their bets, in case we are able to establish more responsible leadership...

Borrowed from Moonbattery...