Does anyone think we have our priorities messed up? What say you?
2007-03-26 04:27:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think the two are mutually exclusive. However, it is surprising and sad that one statistic is mourned daily in the news while the other is just regarded as another statistic, and the cost of the freedom to bear arms.
To answer directly...yes, I believe that priorities are sadly messed up. Iraq is embroiled in a civil war...one that the US has no business participating in. There is no link to terror, there is no greater safety in America as a result of the participation. Yet people support it vehemently. And all the while, innocent children are killed by guns each day in their own country...and there is no outrage about that! I'm not suggesting gun control...I won't enter into that argument. But I am saddened to know that we are worrying more about the people of a foreign land rather than our own countrymen...
2007-03-27 01:16:17 · answer #1 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The numbers are misleading. If the mass media is telling you something then it's more likely a perversion of the truth.
"U.S. military deaths has exceeded 3,000. But that doesn't begin to tell the story. There have been 21,921 wounded as of Nov. 30 and another 17,835 evacuated due to serious injury or illness as of Sept. 30, 2005 when the Pentagon stopped releasing these statistics." IVAW.com
Dead 3200 plus and close to 40,000 wounded. modern medicine is great we can save a bloody stump. But this is the most sneaky part. we will never know the true number of losses of americans in Iraq. Not because the pentegon wont tell us, but because Blackwater soldiers the second largest military force in IRAQ wont tell us. Isn't Halliburton great?
And we will surely never will know how many Iraqi's have died because of sunni death squads, American trained genocide force. the number I saw from one report was almost a million. One hundred people a day, and it go's unreported by the mass media.
All you have to do is your own research, dig deeper then the numbers and follow the money. Then you will get the real numbers.
2007-03-26 04:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I take from your statement that you're for gun control?? Do you think that what you have stated is justified?? So we can send troops all over the world to fight battles as long as we stay under the magical number that you stated 160,000. Lets include those deaths by driving under the influence to that number after all an automobile was used as a weapon. I guess that I'm not sure what you are trying to say in your posting, are you for gun control or are you trying to state that 3100 deaths in Iraq is nothing??
2007-03-26 04:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by supressdesires 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know just what sort of answer you expect. Are you asking, " Do we think we should have more Americans killed in Iraq, or should we limit the shootings here ?
If that's what you're getting at, I'm not for volunteering to kill more Americans in order to make the figures come out better. And if there's a way to decrease the shootings here, the police have never figured that one out.
Do you have any suggestions ? Please don't say to outlaw guns. Remember, drugs are already outlawed.
You may as well outlaw sex in order to control the population.
2007-03-26 04:39:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By far the deaths in Iraq are white middle class (over 2000), followed by Hispanic (300 some) and african-americans about half of that.
I'd be curious as to what the percentages are in US gun deaths and how that would relate to this debate.
2007-03-26 04:37:13 · answer #5 · answered by jackson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the war in Iraq has to do with much more than just an American body count.
2007-03-26 04:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your solution would be what? To confiscate all the guns so that only Big Brother has guns? Do you have your priorities messed up?
2007-03-26 04:33:11 · answer #7 · answered by kscottmccormick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure 160000 thousand is accurate? I see what your trying to say. We ignore death and murder on a daily basis in our country, while we highlight every death in Iraq, especially considering the outcome of IRaq will have enormous bearings on the future of our country and the world.
2007-03-26 04:31:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It all comes down to the Constitution. As Republican love to say We have the right to bear arms. Democrats love to remind us that their is a separation between church and state.
2007-03-26 06:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by applecrisp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I dont think so...If you dont fight terrorism now then more of it will be coming here and there will be MANY MANY more deaths attributed to guns and the one hundred other ways to kill people.
2007-03-26 04:33:08 · answer #10 · answered by RETIRED 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋