Yes, People Pull The Trigger - But Guns Are The Instrument Of Death. Gun Control Is Necessary, And Delay

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

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Guns are bad, I tell you.

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In Florida, to buy a gun, you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it, you do not need to register it. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. You can buy as many guns as you want at one time.

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As a side note, there are more regulatory requirements in Florida for opening a taco stand than there are for purchasing a firearm.

A rotten taco that leads to a stomach ache is probably a bigger problem than a gun in the wrong hands.

The interesting thing about the American gun fetish is that even though you are fully armed, you are completely helpless when investors funded by China rat them out of a job.

A socially just society can be recognized by certain indicators, such as legislation in the form of how many laws benefit ordinary citizens and thus improve their quality of life.

Participation is the magic word for a fair society. The figures in favor of the average American citizen are catastrophic in contrast to the upper class of the rich.

The capitalist propaganda of the entire institutions of the top one percent are doing everything they can to get the American people's heads so twisted that they really believe that a social market economy is the freind of the common citizen.

Anyone who really assumes that health insurance or social benefits such as unemployment benefits and a reasonable tax burden for the rich are detrimental to society should simply check the facts. American public health and thus life expectancy is far behind China.

If that doesn't give you food for thought, you should just check whenever the spectre of the gun control movement is conjured up to distract from important issues.

Gun control only means that there is a background check of the gun buyer. Even bad people and mentally unstable people can buy guns if everything is over the counter.

A just society trusts its state institutions because they are there for the common good of all. If this is not the case, something is very wrong in the so-called democracy and it is a state of Kleptocracy.

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The eternal repetition of mass shootings with hundreds of innocent deaths every year is a morally untenable state of affairs.

Every statistic says that the more weapons are in circulation, the more they are inevitably used, and not always for morally good motives as the weapons industry suggests.

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The fairy tale of the armed teacher who protects the children is already obsolete when the evil one with a telescopic sight blows the brains out of the armed teacher's window.

Not to mention the surprise effect when a machine gunner stands in the doorway of the classroom. Teachers are not john wicks, especially not navy seals.

Exactly

Everything that begins must end.

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Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less interest in the conquest of land, states increasingly use economic or cyber means to battle their adversaries. Such a turn is not free from perils but should perhaps be welcomed as an alternative to previous methods of war. By analysing these new restraints, Blix rejects the fatalistic assumption that there will always be war. He submits that today leading powers are saying farewell to previous patterns of war, instead choosing to continue their competition for power and influence on the battlefields of economy and information.

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Let's talk about the good man who always assumed that crises could be solved with diplomacy.

The competition between states without war is the counter-model to the eternal repetition of escalation which has always led to war and conflict.

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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

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Nobody wants to be humiliated. Humiliation leads to bad things.

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The consequences of the Iraq war have changed the whole course of history. Based on a lie by the US to take revenge for 9/11, the entire world's history was changed and we are still feeling the effects.

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Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction but the hawks in the white house wanted war and ultimately did not change the entire world's history for the better and that's putting it nicely.

In an in-depth interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired politician and diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as head of the UN Arms Control Commission and the legacy he will leave behind for future generations. The 94-year-old Swede held the post during the war on terror between 2000 and 2003, becoming a key player in a global crisis.

While one war fades from history, another has begun.

Humanity is doomed to repeat its patterns and mistakes.

The greatest threat to humanity is the use of weapons of mass destruction, overpopulation with not enough resources, climate change.

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When Putin kills a prominent government critic in front of the world public.

What do you think will happen to non-prominent critics of the system?

Putin will even keep the corpse of the hated Kremlin critic as a trophy so as not to have to admit that it was murder.

If the death of unjustly imprisoned people is accepted as normal, the whole system that is responsible for it is not right.

Putin is a vindictive little man with absolute power and great power fantasies.

He walks over dead bodies, whether it's one person or an entire nation.

He is like a street thug who must be stopped.

This can only be done through strength and strategy. Similar means must be used to unsettle the Russian people. Not destructively but positively reinforced.

It worked in the Roman Empire, so why not in the Russian Empire?

Rumours about food supplies and price reductions that are guaranteed never to materialise. I have already caused a lot of social upheaval. Whether it is peaceful is another matter.

His vanity, his exuded overconfidence suggest anything but a man who is ultimately secure and who only dominates his surroundings through violence and intimidation.

The older he gets, the more dangerous he becomes for those around him and the same applies in reverse.

All the fear he spreads will also affect him because when wolves realise that the Alfa Wolf is weakening, it usually doesn't end well.

Jack London more or less

It cannot be that war crimes are not prosecuted and someone who has provided a platform to reveal them to the world public is prosecuted and punished.

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To make it clear once again whoever publishes war crimes is not a perpetrator!

The question should be were the war criminals in this helicopter held accountable?

A state and no matter which one protects the murderers in its army has no moral compass and has a great humanity deficit.

Due to the following scenes in the movie can be disturbing for sensitive people.

WikiLeaks, a website that publishes anonymously sourced documents, has released a video showing what apparently is a US military helicopter firing at unarmed civilians in Iraq. WikiLeaks said the footage, filmed from a helicopter cockpit, shows a missile strike and shooting on a square in a Baghdad neighbourhood in July 2007. The website said 12 civilians were killed in the attack, including two journalists, Namir Nour El Deen and Saeed Chmagh, who worked for the Reuters news agency. This is the full, unedited version of the footage.

Anyone with a moral compass knows that there is no secret betrayal when it comes to war crimes.

Any law system that treats the other is inherently wrong and does not serve equality but only state interests.

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"Murder on the Dancefloor" is a song written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Gregg Alexander, produced by Alexander and Matt Rowe for Ellis-Bextor's first album, Read My Lips (2001). Released on 3 December 2001, the song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for 16 weeks. The song became a top-10 hit worldwide, charting within the top three in Australia, New Zealand, and four European countries. In the United States, the single reached number nine on the Billboard Maxi-Singles Sales chart. "Murder on the Dancefloor" is reported to have been the most played song in Europe in 2002.

In January 2024, following its use in the film Saltburn, "Murder on the Dancefloor" again reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Ellis-Bextor's first top-10 appearance since 2007. It entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 the same month, making it Ellis-Bextor's first appearance on that chart.

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After more than 20 years

"Murder on the Dancefloor" goes viral - thanks to a nude scene

The psychological thriller comedy "Saltburn" is bursting with memorable scenes. And manages to make "Murder on the Dancefloor" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor from 2001 explode on social media.

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