Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Hunter Wanzell, I'm glad I'd never seen their treatment when they came back. I'd probably be a felon today.
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  2. Spooky music and everything. The propaganda machine was turned up to 11 for this segment.
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  3. Mr ward, whoever told you that the US lost the Vietnam War is feeding you bullshit.
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  4. Danielsan B, there's nothing to be afraid of, but at the end of the day, if someone tries to take your life, you're the only one responsible for keeping it. That's why arms are a natural right that is individual to every person.
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  5. Hunter Wanzell, to be fair, we won the Vietnam War. The peace treaty was signed. We were leaving.
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  6. Hunter Wanzell, we held the parallel with no issue (save for a very short period where some territory was lost during the Tet Offensive, and got a peace treaty signed. That's a war victory. It was a political failure as after Nixon's Impeachment, we didn't supply the arms and money to South Vietnam that we promised so they could rebuild and bolster their military power. And the promise was broken made to South Vietnam by Nixon that we'd reenter the region if the North did break the peace treaty.
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  7. I separate what our boys do on the ground with what ivory tower, pencil-pushers do back home. Our boys forced Ho Chi Minh to the peace talks which he wasn't even interested in before. That's their victory. I won't take that from them.
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  8. This is why we're not giving up our guns in the US. It's never enough. It never achieves safety.
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  9. Many people in developed nations have no notion nor understanding of natural rights, social contracts, individual liberty or why any of these are important and key to the social contract. When we come together in civilization, if my neighbor Bob is bigger and meaner than I am, he can infringe on my rights all he wants. So we all get together and create a government to punish Bob if he tries to infringe on our rights, and in making a punishment for those infringements, we hope that Bob just doesn't even try. But why even have a government if the government is acting just like Bob by infringing on our rights? This is the same as Bob forcing everyone to give up their weapons because he only trusts himself with weapons. You've let your government be Bob, and I'm sure you've all been touched by it, but you just "Keep Calm and Carry On" as though nothing's wrong. It's apt that the poster that quote's from was made to prepare for getting the English through the Nazi occupation of England. People claim that it's about saving lives, but really it's only about saving lives that are rubbed in your nose. You don't think of the people that are murdered but may have been able to defend themselves successfully with a gun that you took from their hands. People are dying either way, but if they have guns, then at least they can choose for themselves how they defend themselves. In the US, you're only a victim of a successful crime if you choose to be. You don't have that choice elsewhere -- you're just going to be a victim of a successful crime. I'm sure that a 5'1" 90 lbs. young woman facing down a 6'2" 240 lbs. rapist and murderer would rather they both have guns than neither of them having guns.
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  10. I can't believe they brought up the Cumbria shooting in 2010. No one ever talks about it. All they say is, "They banned guns, and they haven't had any mass shootings since!" Actually, the rate of mass shootings stayed the same apparently. One about every ten years.
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