by Twitchy
CNN’s critics are so silly, suggesting that the Real News network is in China’s pocket.
Nothing could be further from the truth! Just look:
China and the US were both born from armed conflict. They're now polar opposites on gun control | Analysis by @jessieyeung8 & @steve0george https://t.co/szBwxOxuuo pic.twitter.com/fjbFpnbaFV
— CNN International (@cnni) September 20, 2021
More from CNN’s must-read analysis:The two countries stand on opposite ends of the spectrum of gun control, with the right to bear arms legally protected and vehemently defended in one, and a near-total ban on civilian firearm ownership in the other.
The difference is stark when it comes to public safety. Despite being the world’s most populous country, with 1.4 billion residents, China only records a few dozen gun crimes a year. And more broadly, violent crime has continued falling, reaching its lowest level in 20 years in 2020, according to state-run news outlet Xinhua.
…State-run media outlets, meanwhile, have published dozens of articles about shootings in the US in the past few months alone. In 2019, nationalist tabloid Global Times touted China’s effective gun control as “a lesson for (the) US.” More recently, a Xinhua editorial in June called the US a “double-dealer” for criticizing other countries on human rights grounds while failing to tackle its own “raging gun crimes.”
Thank you, CNN, for helping Xinhua get this very important message to as many people as possible. The world needs to know that the U.S. is far worse and way scarier than China because people in this country actually have the right to defend themselves instead of dutifully walking around with targets on their backs.
What an odd endorsement of gun ownership coming from cnn.
— Hulu_Is_A_Joke (@NotMyBurnerAcc6) September 20, 2021
Sure, China has concentration camps, mass executions by the state, and brisk black market organ trade from political prisoners — but at least they don't have a pesky Second Amendment. https://t.co/1T1ybUbEb5
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 20, 2021
Polar opposites on concentration camps as well pic.twitter.com/J5Lk3hRTaP
— Joey Postlewaite (@JoeyPostlewaite) September 20, 2021
The only people in the US that tolerates gun violence is the Democrats. All their “common sense gun control” is directed at those who obey laws; not those who are the problem. They are addicted to releasing violent criminals, even those that violate gun laws and commit crimes with guns, back upon the population to inevitably and consistently commit more crimes.
But, let’s give all their due. You know who else got rid of those pesky guns to provide for the public’s safety? Nazi Germany. Also the Soviet Union was EXTREMELY concerned with the public’s safety, so no civilians are allowed to own guns. N. Korea is equally sympathetic to the public’s safety from mean old gun wielding criminals. Well… all but members of their own governments. They wanted to monopolize gun crimes, it seems.
Yes indeed, it is a common characteristic of all totalitarian police states that keeping the capacity of self defense out of the citizen’s hands is pretty basic and important.
I don’t hear any Aussies bragging about how they gave up their guns to the government “buy-back.”
Funny, eh?