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Found this at another forum. Interesting views from Chinese citizens on guns in America.

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Maybe just a few misconceptions. I liked this one:

Americans lives are comfortable, so why have a good life and not live it? Usually chaotic/disorderly societies are all in impoverished countries; You have guns, others have guns, mutually checking each other. If you carry a gun illegally, the police have the right to kill you. Americans’ tradition highly values life…

I wish the Wal-Marts near me had gun displays like that!

I liked the fact that many understood that being an armed population "protected" us from a tyrannical government

My wife is Chinese(Now American) when I first bought a gun she was like why you need that I explained the facts of life and she understood still is reserved about them but understands the need. I have been to China 4 times in about 10 different cities. I can say the people live in fear from the bad guys eg... We was in Shanghai walking back to the subway train when I saw some youths reaching for a woman's wallet that was sticking out of her purse and she was clearly clueless to her surroundings, I yelled at the kids which seemed to wake her up to her surroundings, she spun around and swung her purse at the kids head, my wife grabbed my arm to drag me away before the adults that control these kids came to stab us for interfering. We stopped inside the subway and I saw the lady and motioned for her to carry her purse under her arm securely she nodded and kept going.

Another time we got on a subway train (they are very packed) and I saw a unsavory man jump on the train start talking secretly to a younger man the whole time staring at my wife's purse which was tightly pressed between us he jumped back off the train and I kept my eye on the other guy the whole time and he kept an eye on us. I made it a point to always have her purse on our inside between us making it harder to steal. All in all I always felt safe. There are plenty of police and they don't play games, things are very different there and they have their own way of dealing with things and yes lots of corruption which at times gets things done in a timely manner.

When her parents were here I let her father take some shots from my .45 he seemed to enjoy.

As a side note my wife is back there visiting her family and got an ear infection it only cost her 2 yuan (about 30-40 cents) to see doctor, medicine was another 78 yuan(around 10-15 dollars)

Some of those Chinese comments show a better grasp of the American people and mindset than the elite in Washington.

Most of the responses showed a better respect and understanding for the right to own firearms than the Chicago Tribune.

Those Chinese posters who have a good understanding of Americans and claim that their own people could not handle the same rights we have only need to realize that that is due to their government.

The Chinese Revolution of 1949 is probably a lot fresher in their minds than is our Revolution of 1776. While you're at it, check out the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Only with citizens who have high restraint and a society with relatively few injustices would [a country] dare be like this.

Uh oh... how much longer is that going to describe the U.S.?

I liked this one:

I think the American Constitution has a part that says the citizens have the right to overthrow an authoritarian government…it is what I have heard, not sure if it is true or not.

I believe he was referencing the Declaration of Independence.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

The nearest Wal-mart to me doesn't even carry firearms.

Dutch wrote:I liked this one:

I think the American Constitution has a part that says the citizens have the right to overthrow an authoritarian government…it is what I have heard, not sure if it is true or not.

I believe he was referencing the Declaration of Independence.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

Yes, However the D of I holds no power anymore, the constitution declares itself as the supreme law of the land.

Because the hostility between their people is not as deep as it is with us

China is not a country but an empire of smaller countries conquered over thousands of years. For example, Turkestan was re-conquered in 1949 by China. It is now Xinjiang province. In 1950, Tibet was re-conquered by China. I say, re-conquered because they've been fighting for thousands of years and these regions have been vacillating between conquered and independent many times. People in every province in China speak a different language. The Communist government mandates that everyone speak Mandarin in addition to their native tongue. I didn't want people to misunderstand and think that Chinese are a "hostile" bunch. They just all want to revolt and be their own independent country. If everyone in America who bought guns last year (9 million new guns last year) were to buy someone in China a gun instead and air drop 9 million guns with ammo at $100 apiece ($900 million) today, China would become a dozen tiny countries tomorrow. The entire Chinese military only possess 2.5 million guns while private citizens of the USA purchased 9 million guns last year.

It is interesting how they showed a picture of a gun case in Wal-Mart but that picture is probably outdated because Wal-Mart conspired with Bloomberg to stop selling guns at all urban and most suburban locations. For example, Wal-Mart supposedly sold CZ rifles, but I looked until I turned green and could not find a Wal-Mart that stocked guns in North Dallas/Plano.

If you carry a gun illegally, the police have the right to kill you.

I think the poster is referring to China. They have death penalty vans a la Judge Dredd in China. The police are judge, jury, and executioner if you are caught breaking various laws such as speaking out against the government, possession of a firearm, etc.