The Shootings in Arizona
The United States is the sick nation of the world, when it should set standards that everyone should look up to. We all looked on in horror, as Salman Taseer was murdered in Pakistan and now there is an almost more horrific shooting in Arizona. You have to be really sick to shoot a nine-year-old girl.
Like Pakistan, the United States needs to accept a new set of morals.
Guns should be controlled for a start and cruel punishments like the death penalty should be abolished, as this has no place in a civilised society.
So what do we have instead? Just Sarah Palin and her ilk pouring petrol on the fire. Mark Mardell of the BBC has some well-reasoned thoughts here.
Let’s hope the horror of it all, brings the United States to its senses. But I doubt it will! Especially after the idiocy of Dubya and the dissappointment of Obama.
But violence is just one of America’s problems. It has an unsustainable budget deficit, a virtual drugs war overspilling from Mexico, an enormous energy deficit, that it is trying to solve in the wrong way, without counting the problems of Iran, Korea and Afghanistan.
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January 9, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | News | Barack Obama, Crime, Death Penalty, George W. Bush, Guns, Pakistan, Sarah Palin, United States
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The Anonymous Widower 
US is powerful, power corrupts. I too am unimpressed with the attitude of Sarah Palin. But as I have become friends with people from US via the internet, what amazes is that ordinary women in their fifties and sixties, women just like me, own guns and know how to use them, and would use them. I have now met of couple of these women, they are lovely people, have become good friends. But they own guns and in some cases carry with them when they go out.
Comment by liz | January 9, 2011 |
Forgot to add, I do hope US keep their noses out of Ivory Coast and Sudan!
Comment by liz | January 9, 2011 |