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In reply to the discussion: Anyone perplexed by opposition to war in Syria from gun proponents? [View all]billh58
(6,654 posts)can not be compared to WWII in any shape, form, or fashion. Apples and oranges. The Syrian situation is a civil war where a family of dictators who have been in power for decades, is being challenged by a group of rebels intent on overthrowing their brutal dictatorship.
WWII, on the other hand, was an unprovoked war of aggression by Germany and Japan in an attempt to seize land and resources from legitimate governments through the use of military force. The only "miscalculation" was made by the Axis powers about the resolve of the Americans and their Allies. The Allies intervened to oppose territorial aggression, and won decisively.
The war of aggression on the American people by the NRA and its supporters has claimed more American lives than all wars that Americans have been involved in. Gun deaths in America have exceeded our war deaths:
" More American citizens have died since 1968 (1,384,171) than U.S. soldiers killed in ALL wars combined (1,171,177)."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jan/18/mark-shields/pbs-commentator-mark-shields-says-more-killed-guns/
WWII claimed 60 million total deaths (both Axis and Allies) of which 400,000 were Americans. Am I advocating war? No, definitely not because I have seen war close up and personal and can testify to its horrors. I agree with the statement that war is the result of a failure of diplomacy.
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