Do the Communist Chinese people have the right to bear arms?
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You've got to be kidding me.  The whole purpose for gun control is the subjugation of the populace.  It is the only way a marxist nation can keep control.  They won't even allow people to have more than one child
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Disney's "Mulan" was the last animated movie I watched from Disney.  It had a historical plot and timeline well before the 1949 Chinese communist revolution.\n\nYou bet Communist China allows--even encourages--women to join the People's Liberation Army!\n\nRemember, the communist-nationalistic ideology spewed on their citizens by the Chinese Communist Party encourages military service across all races, genders, and levels of society.\n\nThe military is viewed as a stepping stone for most to improve their lot in life and as a tool for the communist leaders to strengthen their nation.\n\nMake no mistake about it, communists believe in domination and control, and they lie to the people by getting them to think they are doing revolutionary things that help their nation.\n\nMillions of Russian women fought in the Soviet armed forces during WWII, which hadn't ever happened prior to the 1917 revolution.\n\nI don't mean to say their sacrifices weren't important or that they were not needed to defend mother Russia, because they most definately were.  It was the fact that their willingness to serve, fight and die in a war was twisted into becoming a tool of communist soviet leaders.\n\nStay tuned, folks.  Communist China will supplant the USA as the world's only superpower.  You heard it here first.  After years of shopping at Wal-Mart, the USA will have transferred our wealth and power to the Far East, and Communist China will then blackmail the USA to its knees!\n\nRemember the Dubai Ports deal that raised such a brew-ha-ha and was eventually scuttled?\n\nHow many people recall in 1998 President Clinton giving away the lease rights to the Naval Station adjacent to the Port of Long Beach to the Chinese-communist-controlled, Hong Kong corporation Hutchison-Whampoa?  Do you also remember that same company underhandedly beat out other firms to operate the ports on BOTH sides of the Panama Canal?\n\nWhere was the brew-ha-ha then?
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No,My family & friends thinks that our Goverment is a Communist  thier trying to take our gun rights away,take our Freedom of speech, privacy act,  travel rights away they try to tell you where to go and not go, The government has to put there hands in there pocket and try to take Social Security, Medicaid, meals on wheels, and last wishes from children and elderly away. There trying to take hospice and the crippled rights and medicare away. There trying to make where people can't live anymore without family and friends. I know for a fact that this government is only for the rich and that's that. And i know for a fact that the rich people is going to live and there trying to get rid of poor people and that's that. Any young woman make sure before you get married you just know that when there
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Dear $$$$,\n\nOne of the first things the Communists did in China after taking power in 1949 was to reform family law. Polygamous marriages (previously a strong tradition in Chinese culture) were outlawed and divorce was made available to women as well as men. The Communists also promoted the advancement of women in every area of society. In that regard, the Communists can indeed be argued to have dealt positively with some of the more unsavoury realities of traditional Chinese culture, which was often extremely unfavourable towards women.\n\nFor the rest, however, their record is frankly dismal. From the very beginning the Communists launched a massive attack on most aspects of Chinese culture, cracking down on religious practice and the millennia-old tradition of ancestor worship, which were dismissed as "bourgeois superstitions". Spiritual figures such as Buddhist monks and shamans, previously an integral part of Chinese culture, were imprisoned. Cultural festivals were abolished - even Chinese New Year was considered to be part of the "old superstitions", and the Communists replaced it by the politically correct appelation of "spring festival" (which is still in use today).\n\nIn the 1970s, Mao's wife Jiang Qing initiated a "criticise Confucius" campaign, seeking to cast shame and discredit on one of China's greatest cultural influences. There was even a plan at some point to abolish the Chinese writing system altogether and replace it with the Roman alphabet. Thankfully this plan proved to be unworkable and was quickly scrapped.\n\nBut nothing compares with the catastrophe unleashed upon Chinese culture by the Communists during the infamous Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). During that fanatical time, all icons of traditional culture were decreed to be "reactionary" and violently attacked. Classical Chinese literature was banned. Thousands of temples and churches across the country were ransacked, looted or destroyed and millions of priceless cultural artefacts were lost. \n\nThis is without even mentioning, of course, the millions of people who were brutally killed, tortured, or removed from their jobs and sent to undergo hard labour in the countryside for somehow becoming associated with "old ways of thinking". This was a huge trauma for Chinese society, and the country still has not finished recovering from it. All in all, the Communists have been very bad news for Chinese culture.\n\nBut it is also important to note that things have changed, and nowadays the Communist authorities have advocated a revival of Chinese culture. It is fine to read Confucius again, temples have reopened and the government has openly espoused a traditional Chinese architectural style for many of its buildings (and encouraged this trend in the private sector too). The Cultural Revolution has been cautiously condemned as a mistake.\n\nHope this helped,
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give them their rights
546393
I suggest you read the constitution.\n\nA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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so in reality, you're helping communist China's troops...\n\nI'd support the stickers/magnets if they actually went to helping the troops. They need body armor and someone's pockets are getting filled off of them.
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Our forefathers almost didn't sign the Constitution. Do you know why, what they feared most?\n\nThey did not fear Britain or India or China or Spain or the Dutch or all of them put together. They feared that the Federal Gov't, once created by them and the Constitution, would become more powerful than their State. So they split the Federal Gov't into three branches and penned the Constitution to limit their powers. \n\nThere is no question that in order to keep their freedom, the right to bear arms was central to that freedom, because politicians only fear two things: public opinion and guns.
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One more thing: in my view, a communist government is superior to a capitalist system in war time. A communist country has a lot of parallels with the military: its organisation, mindset, allocation of resources etc...yet at the same time, a lack of violent protests when bodybags start coming home (just look at the casualties in the wave attacks they used to employ - see the film Enemy at the Gates?)...\n\nWith regard to ground troops, a lot of the numnbers you see are part of their paramilitary public security force (basically your police), and are relatively untrained in modern combat. Most of this force is defensive - however, this will probably change as China is seeking to project its presence around the region in the coming years. \n\nAs of this moment, the PLA's offensive capability is rather limited. The main stay of its air force is still based on the aging soviet warplanes, while the majority of its navy (with the exception of the Sovremenny Class destroyers carrying the sunburn missles) is ancient. The PLA is trying to build its own light carrier but this is estimated to take at least another 10 to 15 years. However, be mindful that superior technology is not everything: The US has not won any war in Asia since WWII....\n\nBTW, one of the people who answered your question stated that the PLA is undefeated other than the First Sino-Japanese war. This is incorrect on 2 fronts: (1) The PLA was formed only after 1949, before that, it was the communist party and Chiang Kai Shiek's Guomindang army. Both of these fought against the japanese but it was mainly the Guomingdang that faced the Japanese due to georgraphy; and (2) the PLA has fought a number of border wars with Vietnam in which they came out No. 2. \n\nMore importantly, look at it this way: China has been stepped on by the Western powers for the past 200 years (imagine your country losing a war and then having to give a lease of your land to other nations - Hong Kong, or have one of your cities split up among other countries - see Shanghai in the early 1900s). \n\nI believe that the country is basically not your aggressive war mongering nation from its historical actions (they prefer to bribe and make money rather than conquer by force). However, it has learnt the hard way that a country with a weak military force can and will be bullied by others. \n\nIn this modern day and age, a purely defensive force is insufficient for a country with ambitions to be respected internationally. \n\nMy view is that China is not only building up its defensive capabilities but also upgrading its offensive capability to counter potential threats like Taiwan (Taiwan has stated that it will flatten Chinese cities if it is invaded), Japan (historical reasons), the US (if they come into the picture on the Taiwan front) and maybe even North Korea (a belligerent & strong North Korea is not necessarily in China's best interest). \n\nAny large country with the ability to do so will do the same (see the Indian Army - ex russian aircraft carrier, Mig 29s as mainstays etc)
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china isn't communism. it's totalitarianism capitalism.\n\nMost people are idiots about communism and don't even know what it is.
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It is estimated that the Soviet Union exterminated over 20 million of it's own people.\nChina exterminated 50 million to a 100 million of it's own Chinese.\nHow's that for Human Rights?\n(These are facts that can be checked out.)
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Rule of law from the weakest person to the strongest should be a goal of every country, unfortunately, the Chinese communist party is threatened by the "spiritual" movement Falung Gong, so it's possible these acts are condoned tacitly to "scare "citizens back into the communist fold. Any acts like these, if true, would be signs of desperation. The Chinese government will be on it's best behavior until the Olympics in '08, then I believe there may be great confrontation in China. Their economy is more and more capitalist, the people want and are getting, to a certain degree, a more free and materialistic lifestyle, yet the Communist party still holds sole political power. At some point one will have to give way to the other.
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i am citizen of china and i have no rights
109123
We have the right to bear arms.Guns don't kill people.People kill people.What we need is psychopath control and "look at me I'm a bigshot cause I have a gun"control.
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Do they actually still teach High school or just play football all day?????\na) Look up the Spanish American War\nb) We lease the place in the same way the UK had Hong Kong.\nc) Communist dictators have no right to lecture on human rights to the US or anybody else.\nd) Were it not for a deal cut over the Missile Crisis of '62, we would have wasted the guy a long time ago.\ne) Try acting like a American & not a Blue helmet....\n\nf) if you actually read the Geneva Conventions, These folks are not covered under them. They are not considered civilians nor are they soldiers.
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China's past is certainly not reassuring.\n\nAside from becoming an economic powerhouse and their increased  military spending, their population figures alone make it unlikely that any one nation could resist China's imposition of it's will. \n\nI remember, during the Vietnam War, it being calculated that China could supply the North Vietnamese with an uninterrupted fighting force.  I don't think a "carry a big stick" attitude will work in this scenario. \n\nYes, we should be wary of China's military potential, and we need to elect leaders prepared to deal with the changing world with a mindset focused on cooperation and diplomacy rather than go it alone and shoot from the hip.
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No, I could not tolerate living under a Communist dictatorship.  I appreciate that it has modernized somewhat, but it's still communism.  And as to the Chinese culture, I wonder how much of it is left after the Maoist "cultural revolution."  \n\nEven if I thought I could learn the language (and I don't), I could not live there.