Norwegian Terrorist Got His Weapons from the United States
source: http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann/1311954810
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Friday 29 July 2011
by: Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program | News Analysis
Where did Norwegian Terrorist Anders Breivik get his weapons of death?
Right here in the United States.
Turns out – Breivik used ten high-capacity magazines bought from a US supplier to go on his killing rampage last Friday. They were the same 30-round magazine used by Jared Lee Loughner in the Tucson massacre earlier this year that killed 6 people and critically wounded Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
After THAT shooting – Democrats called for a ban on high-capacity magazines – but NRA-owned Republicans in the House did nothing – and violence struck again.
Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney - one of the proponents of the ban on high-capacity magazines said, “There should be a lot of shame…We’re sending a death warrant to other parts of the world.”
She’s right – we've become the world's one-stop shop for death and destruction.
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ampersand
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Sadly, this is an infinitesimal notation in the amount of major weapons the US pumps into the planet.
The US is the major supplier of weaponry to the world. We are now selling fighter jets to Iraq. (Following our earlier pre-war sales of poison gas to Saddam Hussein.)
It is a dangerous world, and we contribute to it as a major player.I'm not advocating disarming when so many other little groups of psychotic monkeys have guns, but when you trace it back, there are only a tiny handful of major suppliers of those weapons.
Of course any international convention attempting to truncate that supply would be doomed to failure by economic interest and endless efforts to produce weapons illegally.
We are a nasty species, my brothers.I was a pacifist myself until I lived through the Bush Administration in the US, and personally saw the brutal lessons taught by the military regime of Burma and by China in Tibet.
Violence is never the right answer to life.
It's only sane use is in a final effort to protect and preserve life.If we could only be better a separating out the rare incidents where that really occurs from the constant insane projection of our own shadows and fears.
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ampersand
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bike10
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One way to solve the problems of the economy more guns made in the good USA. Plus all guns you buy one month free membership in the NRA.
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bike10
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bailey78
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Look I can get any weapon that I want all I need is money to do so.
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bailey78
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Wyley_Wombat
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No order too big or too small. The weapons market is big business supplying planes and bombs to small arms and ammunition. It is not just the US in this game but we are a major player. It is actually a global industry, the sale of death. And we "first world nations" like to say that we promote peace. I think we are pulling the wool over our own eyes.
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Wyley_Wombat
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lightningthunderfox
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Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price
Don't want your revolution, I want anarchy and peaceYou talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on meBut what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
You say they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them throughVive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fightIt all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into account the true reality
Cos the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't careYou're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers useSo don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politicsGovernment is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression nowNothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game - 10 months ago
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lightningthunderfox
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hombre76
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lightningthunderfox:
"slavery is the game" damn strait and acording to your little ditty We sould not rise violently against it because we might get some people killed. I call BS on your hypothosis people aint dieing because of revolutionaries they are dieing because this is a chitty world and if anything is ever gonna change then somebody might have to die. I wish it could just be me but thats not the reality now is it?
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hombre76
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lightningthunderfox
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hombre76:
You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on meChe is a great example of what comes out of violent revolutions. Or the movie animal farm. about the communist revolution. anarchy does not have to be associated with revolution
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lightningthunderfox
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mr_tibbles
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So he used ten thirty round mags. Let's say we ban high cap magazines, what's to stop someone from using thirty ten round magazines? I don't believe banning high capacity mags will have much of an effect, if any, on reducing violence.
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mr_tibbles
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mrtraffic
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mr_tibbles:
I am for tighter gun control and enforcement of laws already on the books-and I thought the same thing you did when I saw this
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mrtraffic
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freecrack
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well,where else would one go when seeking to riegn havock and death but the united states.its kind of our thing that we excel in
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freecrack
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warman1138
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Doesn't surprise me, once upon a time the fledgeling nazi party in germany got some of their guns from us citizens thru a third party shipped in from another country to circumnavigate existing restrictions of that time and place.
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warman1138
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csmonut
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Why is it every time a terrorist, from any part of the world gets their guns from the USA, we are the bad guy?
One would think the terrorist would be the bad guy. - 10 months ago
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csmonut
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freecrack
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csmonut:
it is philosophical.
if this is the case,that we are the bad guy, then so is every person who has ever sold a gun wich killed some one.
i dont agree with this.but it is the left position on this
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freecrack
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hombre76
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freecrack:
Fuck that Im a Lefty liberal and I dont buy that shit. Its the opinion of those afraid of learning the propper way to handle a tool. but then my sollution has never been banning but stringent lisencing and training on how to safly use a tool that is deadly to unintended targets if not handle properly. like i say below a killer is a killer they will find other meens to kill with even if we deprive all the law abiding citizens of their guns.
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hombre76
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freecrack
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hombre76:
im a lefty too, but the bigger lefty position isnt the one we share.
yes guns are a tool, making it the users burden.but the bigger left position seems to be that guns are a tool with only one purpose wich is to kill.and that is the focus of the narrative about guns then.
im with ya, just sharing devils advocate positions
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freecrack
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csmonut
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freecrack:
I consider myself a "lefty." I am the flaming tree hugger at work...just ask my co-workers. I do however believe in the right of people to own guns.
I don't believe it is the US's responsibility to police the world or the people in it, as is so many times the case.
I do believe a killer will kill and they will find a way to do it, from guns to explosives, if one wants to kill people, they will find a way to do it. - 10 months ago
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csmonut
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freecrack
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csmonut:
i agree with regulation as the answer.but doesnt regulating in action place responsability on the distributor, there fore when a killing occurs a degree of blame?
if responsability and blame have a cause and effect relationship, the lefts position is placing a focus of error on the distribution of guns.dont get me wrong.cuz the right wing position on this is even more rediculous as it is actualy anarchy.that whole sell weapons what ever they may be as one would sell bottled water.complete with ammo vending machines in bar bathrooms next to the condoms.
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freecrack
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hombre76
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I agree that a killer kills because he/she is a killer. I want access to weapons that can defend me or those I love in certain situations. I can get those from criminals if we make them illeagal but I would prefer not having to deal with those type of people to get the weapos I need at unforseen occations in my or anyones future.
But I'm one of those rare liberals who wants the same armament as my advisaries should it come to it. - 10 months ago
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hombre76
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JCJ78
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hombre76:
I'm one of the few leftists I know of who's armed BETTER than most of the right wingers I know and shoot with.
I'd also like to point out that the Assault Weapons Ban of 1993 didn't ban the sale or ownership of high-cap magazines. After Congresswoman Giffords was shot, it was oft repeated that "The AWB that had been allowed to expire banned high capacity magazines." IT DID NO SUCH THING.
It banned the importation or manufacture of magazines that held more than ten rounds, but they were still available for sale at the expiration of the AWB, from stockpiles that had been amassed before the AWB passed. The law stipulated specifically that magazines could be assembled and rebuilt from existing parts, and then left a long window of opportunity for manufacturers to continue building and stockpiling parts. I'm almost postitive that it even had a stipulation that said a manufacturer could create more parts on his tooling AFTER the ban, if said maker could prove he'd have to take a $$$$ loss otherwise.
Pretty much the only change that the AWB had on magazine ownership was that if you bought a new rifle, it came with a magazine that held no more than ten rounds. It was always legal to purchase "Pre-ban" high-cap magazines and use them in "post-ban" rifles.
If the law had any effect on the high cap magazine market, it made them more expensive. I'm not sure why this is an effect that people who claim to be defenders of the weak and poor would advocate for though. - 10 months ago
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JCJ78
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Buddha2112
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The violence didn't strike because of the magazines being available.
The violence happened because someone wanted it to. Take away the magazines and he'd find another way... A ban on high cap magazines will do nothing to mitigate violence... Especially when the US sells them to criminals anyway. Lol.
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Buddha2112
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maasanova
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Buddha2112:
I agree Budda2112, but let's not let logic get in the way of those to wish to use a horrible tragedy to grandstand and further their own political agenda.
With the logic that most gun control advocates use, we can argue that fertilizer should be banned too, since people were killed by a car bomb made from fertilizer.
And while we're at it, people can be killed, and are occasionally killed intentionally by automobiles, so should we ban automobiles too?
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maasanova
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Buddha2112
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maasanova:
I don't think we should really ban anything... Especially on a federal level. It never prevents anything, it never helps... It only punishes those who use it in legal ways. But individual states still have the right to form laws about anything not in the constitution... Which technically throws gun control out the window...
And yes, it is quite silly... Cars kill more people than almost anything else, yet there's no outrage about that. And of course, we could throw Marijuana into the debate, but nobody really listens when you compare the ludicrous nature of bans and their actuality.
It's as simple as this: If you don't like something: don't buy it/support it/use it. You can't tell someone else who has a legitimate reason (which is as simple as "because they can") to buy it/support it/use it.
I can't believe that people actually care about WHERE he got his weapon from. It doesn't matter where... He killed people... HE killed people... HE DID, the man, with the weapon... and his accomplice(s). People have the ability to choose, objects do not.
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Buddha2112
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maasanova
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Hmm...interesting. Now where did he get the cop uniform, the fertilizer, the help to build, plant and detonate the explosives, the military-styled planning and logistics (since he didn't have any military, intelligence or even a law enforcement record) and the operational assistance to carry out both the bombing and the shooting is what I want to know.
“There should be a lot of shame…We’re sending a death warrant to other parts of the world.”
We sure are!
I wonder if the Congresswoman is aware of the botched BATF/Mexican drug terrorist gun running sting that is that the media is trying to keep a lid on.
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maasanova
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hombre76
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maasanova:
Yup Im afraid this KT organization is real and it goes way up the global leadership food chain. I dont think any of these things will come to light and it scares the shit out of me.
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hombre76
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warman1138
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maasanova:
Excellent questions.
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warman1138