The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is taking a page out of the anti-gun lobby’s playbook—almost literally.
In a video posted to an official Chinese government Twitter account, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, criticized U.S. officials for failing to address “gun violence,” calling the problem a “human rights issue.” The tweet links to a page from the Gun Violence Archive that displays “gun deaths” in the United States.
“Behind these numbers concerning gun violence in the U.S. are heartbroken families who have lost their loved ones. This is both shocking and poignant. One gunshot after another left countless bullet holes in the American dream. The smell of gunpowder drifting in the air set people thinking and questioning, does the democracy the U.S. champions have no regard for life? Does the freedom the U.S. advocates mean freedom to shoot other people?” he asked.
The CCP has for years tried to equivocate their own human rights violations with the supposed social ills of the United States. The American Left’s ongoing campaign to paint the U.S. as racist and violent has given them plenty of fodder.
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During the nationwide Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, the CCP’s mouthpiece newspaper, the “People’s Daily,” published a cartoon showing a White House tainted in blood with a police officer emerging from the statue of liberty. In March of last year, the Chinese criticized the U.S. for “deep-seated” problems with racism in response to accusations of genocide in the Xinjiang region.
This latest attack seems to be more of the same.
“Gun violence has become a malignant social tumor in the U.S., interwoven and overlapping with other issues, including a pandemic raging unchecked, drug abuse, and racial discrimination. It has become a severe systemic human right issue,” Zhao said.
“Oddly, as the American people suffer, U.S. politicians keep looking the other way with indifference. They are blowing their own trumpet and lecturing other countries,” he continued. “Do they have any right, any moral authority, or any confidence to do so? I hope these shocking numbers will have a sobering effect on these people, so they can reflect upon themselves and take some concrete actions to improve these human rights conditions.”
Is democracy flaunted by the US blind to people’s lives? Is freedom touted by the US about the freedom of shooting?https://t.co/uWMNKLGG3B pic.twitter.com/zSTNoClXU5
— Spokesperson发言人办公室 (@MFA_China) January 25, 2022
In what most international observers describe as a “genocide” akin to the Holocaust, the CCP has placed about 3 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in concentration camps in the Xinjiang region of China. The country is also responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and adds more CO2 to the atmosphere than any other nation.
Private gun ownership is generally banned in China. However, much like California and New York, the CCP grants certain permissions to those who express a “genuine reason” to possess a firearm.
I’m a little curious about why this article was even published here. I mean, who gives a flying F**k what China thinks about firearms issue. Slow news day?
lets go china! You communists suck!
ask a wygar if China had Guns there would be no issues
CHINA SHOULD BE SUED FOR VIOLATING THE WHO PROTOCOLS WHEN THE COVID VIRUS FIRST APPEARED. THEY SUPPRESSED IT FOR WEEKS LETTING IT SPREAD OUTSIDE WUHAN, THEY DIDNT NOTIFY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION UNTIL AFTER IT WAS LEAKED BY ONE OF THEIR OWN SCIENTIST.
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT SUCKS. BUT OUR POLITICIANS SURE KNOW HOW TO SUCK UP TO THEM.
Sued? More like Nuked. If you really believe that the release and prolonged silence from the CCP was an accident, you and everyone else that think it was accidental are crazier than a S**thouse Rat!!
As far as I’m concerned, China can go pound sand. They have NO right to criticize US. They have NO HUMAN RIGHTS. Our gun violence is due to criminals getting away with not being punished correctly for the crimes THEY commit. China is the one with HUMAN RIGHTS issues. That’s what you get with communism, socialism, fascism, “progressivism” (if you can actually call it progressive), or whatever else you want to call a totalitarian government. China needs to shut up and go away permanently.
They are trying to get rid of American gun owners so they can try to invade this country without having to fight. They have been complaining for years that our government hasn’t taken away our guns and now there seems to be big push to get them out of our hands
what about all the people who are dissidents to their government who are either executed or imprisioned for years dor not going along with the rule. Thats a human rights issue. The criminals are the ones who are killing people here. How is that human rights? Talk about duma__es.
There is not a single damn snippet of opinion that I need, or any American needs, from the murderous, genocidal, human rights trampling, hateful, heavy-handed Communist dictatorship of China. Keep your mouths shut, China. We did not ask for your input, nor do we care one bit what you think.
I think someone should give this guy a personal tour of the Southside of Chicago, and give him a whole bunch of flash money.
Let’s first have a conversation about+60M dead in the Chairman’s “Great Leap Forward, or the 1-10M (no one really knows how many) dead in the Cultural Revolution. Meantime, FO, General Tsao.
How many COVID deaths worldwide while China continues to look the other way? Thanks, CCP!
Funny, Anytown and Demanding Moms are in concert with the ChiComs. Who’da thunk it?
The 2A, keeping America uninvadeable since 1791! Of course the Chicoms want it gone.
Who cares what that whack job thinks?
The 2nd amendment or our god given right to protect ourselves and our families is no business of the CCP PERIOD.
Any “minister” of anything from China has my permission to eat fecal matter and become deceased.
Hmmm In his country only the government is allowed to own and use firearms on their own people. Since when did we ever care what the comm party said.
This is completely laughable. This coming from a country whose leader killed millions more people than Hitler and Stalin combined, and used tanks to crush demonstrators in the streets. Sure they want the 2nd A abolished, easier for them to take over with their commie buddy’s in this administration.
china trying to divert attention away from their atrocities. the dems are probably applauding them. we are definitely not in the best of times as china is in cahoots with the elite in the west that want to rule over us plebes after depopulating most of us,
The pot calling the kettle black! HAH
It comes as no surprise that America’s enemies (along with our own DemoSocialists) would like to see our nation’s citizenry disarmed.
They remember – if our own politicians don’t – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s statement: “You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass’.”
I find it amusing that a communist can lecture
us on the topic of “ human rights “. Especially as
they engage in bio warfare , an outright act of war ,
with the virus concocted with the help of some of
the sympathetic elements in our own country .
Communists are the enemy of all God-fearing
people of the earth . History is full of examples of
their lies , torture , deception , and inhuman behavior
toward not just their own , but humanity in general .
I do not advocate war with those subhumans , but
to turn our backs to them , allowing their sour fruit
to rot on the vine .
One cannot make peace with , nor live in peace with ,
such animals as they . Despite what is being taught in our
institutions of higher education , they remain a source of
evil in this world , and being a “ peacemaker “ with them
will only result in slavery to them .
We should pay no heed to those Godless creatures.
Citing excuses , feigning ignorance of their methods ,
acting as though they are harmless , could cost us dearly ,
if it hasn’t already .
What do Americans expect from China besides all consumer goods, steel and high tech items? The US has been demonizing China and sailing guided missile destroyers around their island bases for years, so they are going to criticize to our system when they can. Wake up.
Wake up , sir ?
Surely you jest !
You like what they do so well – GO LIVE THERE!!! Might want to leave your weapons here.
Are you out of you mind? A lot of those island bases you seem to like are in International Waters. As such, China has no right to occupy them. A few are even in Philippine Waters. How about letting them build bases on San Clemente Island off the coast of California? (Of course Newsome might like that idea.)
It’s quite ironic that the very people who are now, and in the past, committing genocide on their own people are declaring a human rights issue. As part of the bribery agreement with China owned Groper Joe Bribedem and his crackhead son, they must be doing this to further their gun grab in this nation.
Sell US out Joe and when the CCP takes over, they WILL eliminate those elites they have bought off like YOU, Bloomturd, Gates, Paloozer, Bezos, Scummer and the rest. You all will no longer be needed.
Check to see how many guns and parts are made in China. they don’t allow guns ownership because they know the persecuted will rise up for freedom.
They have the nerve to speak to us about gun violence, really! When they have the Weager population enslaved and when they are no longer useful they harvest their organs.
Give me Freedom or Give Me Death!!
I’ve gotta say, China has a lotta dang gall to say this with a straight face when they’re literally putting their own citizens in concentration camps
Red China should not make comments while committing genocide.
Who’s talking about human rigths?
my father was a marine sent to china right after ww2..
ask him how many chinese were murdered when the communist took over..and how many have “disappeared “. since then.
i’m sure china would love to see america give up it’s guns……easier to attack that way……think it can’t happen? look at current russia.
The worst thing is, if China is talking, Biden is listening. They have paid way too much for him not to.
Chinese Tanks have killed more innocent people than any of my guns, and they did it without firing a shot.
The greatest threat to Human Rights is the P.L.A., and they have proven it.
Blue Dog we all know your a damned democrat, speaking for commie loving,America hating, Baby Murdering party. You and the rest can go to Hell
I can understand the reason for his concern. American gun owners have in their possession about 60 to one the number of firearms fielded by the Chinese Army, most of them vastly superior in ballistic performance. They know they won’t be dealing with Russian peasants or Chinese farmers. Whenever Mr. Zhao Lijian and his ilk show up on American soil seeking to do harm, I’ll be happy to violate his rights–all of them.
I think you will not be the only one Mr. Rogue. There is a great phrase, aligned with handing over ammunition “one at a time”.
I’m not mad at China for these comments. It’s an incredibly skillful use of rhetoric to continue to inflame the anti 2-A. Their hope is that America will succeed in disarming ourselves. Privately owned firearms is what has kept foreign wars from being fought on our soil. Japan was afraid to invade the interior of the US during World War II for that very reason.
This isn’t hard to see. They have no conscience that is driving empathy for our families. They’re not even trying to hide their hypocrisy as they don’t care. It’s simply a play. So see it for what it is. Another enemy communist attack on the greatest nation to ever have been conceived.
The only issues with this great nation comes from sheeple who cannot learn from history or revision it to fit their narrative. Are we mistake free? No. But what other nation has done as much to remedy those mistakes and ensure the liberties for all people as much as the US? None. Not one. China especially is as horrid as they have ever been in history.
Two reasons the CCP would make such comments:
1) to distract from their own genuine human rights abuses
2) to support the Progressive-Socialists and other assorted imbeciles in their push to disarm the American public. they see the deliberate plan to destroy America as a strong superpower and are cheering it on. remember why Hirohito thought trying to invade the U.S. in WW2 was impossible. the Chinks think the same thing.
How many died from Wuhan/China virus?
F you XI
@ Punisher6. (Your magesty/royal highness) — I understand your frustration with people like Blue Dog. As loathsome as his comments are, we have to remember freedom of speech is for everyone, including idiots. If we curb the speech we don’t like, such as that of the “useful idiots” on the left, then we’re no better than they are. Remember, truth can stand up to withering debates, lies cannot, and he clearly isn’t attempting to debate!
The best way to deal with Blue Dog is to totally ignore him. 1) Do not read his posts. 2) Do not feed the troll — waste valuable time responding to his pathetic drivel. 3) Then you’ll be happier, calmer, and have more time for target practice!
It has to be at least 25 years since I read an article about a container full of firearms being discovered by agents in a California port. It was an article buried on page 6. I asked an FBI agent I knew about the discovery. He told me that it happens all the time. The Chinese were arming the gangs here.
Why cant i find a container full ??? Geeez !
This from a country where 94 million+ were murdered by the government.
Commie bastards don’t need to talk to me about human rights.
Hey Chynah: UIGUR PLEASE
If we dealt with our criminals the way that China does, there wouldn’t be a problem. One bullet to the back of the head…Problem solved.
Yeah, except the Chinese Commies consider anyone who doesn’t submit, or opposes them, a “criminal.”
See any similarity to the attitude/actions expressed by the Left towards those who don’t comply with their totalitarian mandates, or refuse to get the jab?
How funny! They are worried about our gun deaths while they keep cranking out new covid variants to keep killing us and bringing down own country! What about those families that lost multiple loved ones due to Chinas biological terrorist attacks on us with their man made viruses! This is a sneak attack at disarming our nation so they can finally take over!
You’re missing something. Dr. Falsie and his cohort at the NIH are the ones who initiated & funded the virus research with the goal of realizing “gain of function,” i.e., weaponizing the virus.
I’m not big on conspiracy theories, but I can’t help but wonder at the timing of the release of Covid-19. Just before the 2020 election campaign heated-up and with Trump as our sitting president, almost certain to win reelection. The Progressive-Socialists used every BS tactic they could dream of to bash him over his handling of the response to the virus. Some analysts even say it was a major factor in Obiden getting as many votes as he did. And don’t forget the ChiComs hated him too, due to his get-tough policies towards them.
Just some food for thought.
C-c-c- – -o-n–SPIRACY?
I’m not ‘all-in’ with that either. But along with your point, consider this first hand observation, and of any reader, regarding this astounding preponderance of evidence….
I’ve driven all over the country lately, west and a good deal of the east, last October 2019 through this January 2022. MO. OH. PA. IL. MI. MN. WI. WV. VA. KS. NE. IA. UT. NV. CO. AZ. NM. TX. CA. (4 months!) OK. AR.
I cannot name or even recall any but the tiniest sprinkled quantity/ percentage of Biden-Harris physical material; billboards (paid for OR private), window stickers, t-shirts, blue trucker caps, yard signs, sound trucks, mailers, handbills, sides of entire buildings…..and just a few days after election that clown couldn’t even fill a town hall meeting. The organizer pushed everyone into front couple rows, filming right behind them implying high attendance.
How could such an ‘overwhelming base’ catch buyers remorse that fast? Talk about a speedy virus! ! !
Falling poll numbers, ain’t no mask causing that either.
Who recalls the numbnuts who couldn’t even win HIS OWN STATE, Albert Somebody?
Those results are what triggered suspect election returns and evil tweaks to our system. Also note a few countries who conduct elections, removed mail-in option to fulfill a citizens right, for in person means.
I’d like to see him the victim of a victim crime ,filthy America hating pig that he is
What a joke! China with the worse human rights issue is pointing its finger at someone else claiming ” human rights. That is exactly what the left does here! Blame others when exposed!
The Difference between our “Rights Issues” is pretty clear! In America we have “Rights” In China the government tells you what to do and what you cannot do and Our Government, as shaky as it is at this time does not condone Genocide, Child Labor, Forced Labor, Censored Speech(Not yet on the Speech thing) Big Tech is working with the democrats to get there but it won’t fly!
Wow guy, you haven’t been paying attention!
Not only is widespread active censorship going on Right Now, but the Progressive-Socialists in DC are calling on Big Tech for more! Some are actually calling for prison sentences for voicing “misinformation” about vaccines.
And how much better is this administration than the Commies when they, in effect, promote rape, child abuse, and human trafficking with their “come to America” open-borders policy?
Wake-up; it’s worse than you think.
I guess Joe told you to say this. Or more likely, China paid Joe off again. The problem is not with law abiding citizens – it is with the thugs and illegal aliens that bring their guns in across the loose border. And the felons that are let loose by the liberal fools. The taxpaying AMERICAN citizens are the only ones that are law abiding. Americans are not fools – just keep that in mind.
Since when do we give a damn what little dick commie tyrants think?
WRONG! You had Better pay attention to what they think/say, for they have an agenda and it ain’t friendly, to say the least.
Know thine enemy
Isn’t that rich China telling Americans about human rights.
How many people did the Chinese gov kill under Mao?
How many are imprisoned for speaking out against the gov?
How about the treatment of the Uyghurs and Muslims?
How many children work in sweatshops?
Oh yes and Democracy??
Really how are your leaders elected, not by the people!!! You do not have anything close to an elected represenative!!
So go push your propaganda bullshit on someone else!!!
You must have missed a great proverb..THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES!!!
No Chinese official has a right to criticize “human rights” in America. If it wasn’t for armed citizens making even Sniffy Joe and the Skanky Ho think twice, we’d have the same human rights violations as China does.
Well Rich, perhaps you aren’t up to speed, but our human rights are Already being violated here in the U.S..
Your right to Free Speech has been seriously comprised, with more restrictions and even penalties being proposed. Your rights to “freedom and the pursuit of happiness” have been compromised by lock-down orders and having to present Vaccine Papers to shop, attend public events, fly, or even hold a job!
It just astounds me how blind and ill-informed the majority of people seem to be regarding the current state of affairs, much less the horrendous future being planned for them.
Cultural revolution and great leap forward
The outrage over the Uyghurs feels awfully cheap and politically expedient. Many of the same people today throwing the plight of the Uyghurs into any post about Nike and Disney couldn’t be bothered when some spoiled rich kid took us into an illegal war for oil to avenge his daddy 20 years ago. Where was the outpouring of support when we were playing cowboys and Afghanis? Put any one of those Uyghurs in Minnesota and these same folks cannot be bothered or worse yet, complain about how she should go back to her own country. Where is the outpouring of support for children in concentration camps on our own borders or even American children gunned down in schools all across America?
Just because this Zhao represents a government that commits atrocities doesn’t mean he cannot be right about our shortcomings too. Specks and logs in eyes; everybody’s got something in their eye. Wo bu jidao.
If you hate our constitutionally protected rights so much and love communism and being controlled by tyrants so much, do us all a favor and move to China. We don’t need or want your kind here.
Blue dog turd, you really are a special loathsome piece of unpatriotic shit. As someone once said, you should do us all a favor and have the dog shit you somewhere else. Quit trolling us legitimate gun owners.
And shame on the moderator for continuing to approve your obnoxious posts, and especially this one.
Let’s go Brandon, and let’s go bluedogturd!
Aw shucks, Punisher6. Are you appealing to a tech company to censor me? This feel a bit like cancel culture.
GunsAmerica has been very fair to dissenting opinions in their comments section. The only comment I can remember that I made that was not approved had a link to another website (it was a dictionary) and you don’t see links in the comments here. They believe in the great American tradition of free speech. There are a lot of wannabe McCarthys out there that don’t.
Fear not, Blue Dog! We’ll be in another war soon to protect a corrupt family’s business interests in a corrupt nation. Russia, Russia, Russia ‘ya know!🙄
NEOCOMMUNIST ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blue dog: boo hoo hoo, boo hoo hoo. Go get your 10th booster and STFU
Sorry Blue Dog (it/that), don’t usually do ad hominems, but I do see a problem and would like to help. There is a medical remedy for what you ‘gots’. It’s called hormone therapy treatment, usually with a testosterone booster. Your doctor can proscribe it and you can tell (him/her/it/they) I diagnosed you. Cheers….
Sorry Reticent Rogue, I don’t normally do the grammar nazi thing but I do see a problem and would like to help. I think you mean prescribe and not proscribe.
You defend those that would not hesitate to take many of your own posts and use them against you in the
“Peoples Court” and then execute you.
None of their claims are true, but you defend their ‘right’ to say it is.
They define the old adage “Those who live in glass houses…………”
And You are a fine example of the Communists term “useful idiot”.
Frankly, I find your posts so moronic as to defy explanation.
How can you so embarrass yourself and show up time and again???
Where do I even start?
Mr. Lijian’s comments, whether there’s any truth to them or not, are Not spoken out of altruistic motives. He is an operative of the CCP, and as such will implement approved methods of propaganda for one express purpose– to compromise America. Period.
Your comment about Bush Jr.’s incursion into Iraq wasn’t about oil, or “avenging” his daddy(how’d you even come-up with that??) . It was about Saddam’s possession of WMDs. As it turned-out, that report was based on erroneous intelligence. Yes, it was an unfortunate blunder, like all too many U.S. foreign policy gaffs. But, your take on it is wrong.
“Children in concentration camps.” Uh, maybe you’re not aware of it, but under the present Progressive-Socialist regime’s open-borders policy, overwhelming hordes of unaccompanied minors are flooding into our country. There are inadequate facilities to temporarily house them, hence over-crowding. Blame the one’s you voted for in 2020.
As far as kids being murdered by their classmates in school goes, there is outrage for sure. Only you and your friends’ answer to that is to ban firearms, depriving law-abiding citizens of their Constitutional rights. Those who don’t have their heads buried up their butts have sane, workable solutions. But, those fall on deaf ears, like yours.
Sorry pal, your Feelings don’t cut it. Facts & rationality take precedence on every issue.
As it turned-out, that report was based on erroneous intelligence.
Actually it wasn’t. Bush just waited so long before actually invading that they had time to move the WMDs out of country or buried in the desert like some of those fighter jets we found buried. Doesn’t make what he did right though. Both Bushes broke their word on what they would do. Daddy Bush “Read my lips, no new taxes” he violated before the year was out. Bush 2 promised, among other things to abolish the Department of Education, and instead he doubled their budget. Both of them were as bad as any democrat up until Bill got into office
Don’t forget (Dem) Senator Paul Wellstone MN who tried to stop the march towards war by using the filibuster and looked what happened to him and his family. It was reminiscent of the Clinton years with a political threat dying in a plane crash and a warning that your loved ones are NOT safe if you cross the line.
So, where are the peaceniks on the left trying to stop that political whore in the WH from pushing for a war against Russia? Where are the peaceniks calling to the War Powers Act to be enforced and Congress to do their duty? Where are the peaceniks trying to preserve the filibuster?
Tell us what an old baby boomer like you is doing to prevent that POS in the WH from pushing the US into another war today?
Where were you saying when Will Jeff dragged the US into wars including Sebia?
What were you saying after BHO’s killed Ghadaffy (sp?)?
What were you saying when Trump did NOT start any new wars?
What were you saying when the POS in the WH got 13 service members blown up in the ill conceived exit from Afghanistan?
What were you saying when that POS in the WH killed innocent people in a drone strike after he got 13 service members killed?
I guess the old baby boomer peaceniks have become a lot like the partisan pin heads from generation Z.
Did Obama actually get Ghadafi? I thought his own people pulled him out of a culvert and finished off that dictator, Mussolini style.
Clinton did get us involved in several unjust wars to divert the headlines from how the Republicans were jealous that he was getting some. Was that the fault of Clinton, the Republicans dogging him over his affairs or the media who gave those Republicans a platform? They made a movie about it called Wag the Dog. Monica Lewisnski was kinda cute – still is – but she is not worth going to war over à la Helen of Troy.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan didn’t go well. We shouldn’t have been there for 20 years; what else could our blood and treasure buy there? He had the courage to end a generations-long, pointless war.
Does anyone really think we would go to war over Russia doing war games on the Ukrainian border? Consider the name – Ukraine means marches or border regions, which is why we used to call it “THE Ukraine” and makes it related to place names like Mercia or Denmark. The Russian name for that region is Little Russia, compared to Greater Russia and White Russia (Belarus). What can American blood and treasure buy in the Ukraine? Russia annexed Crimea 8 years ago, why is it a problem now? Transnistria tried to join Russia around the same time, you don’t hear word one about Moldova.
Do you care about the plight of the Uyghurs, Kane? What about the oppressed Muslim minority in Palestine? Honestly, how does the plight of the Uyghurs affect your daily life? Does it affect your supply of probiotics?
Oh i really wish i could find you face to face !!
Rather than attack my argument you threaten me. Can you not refute me, Brian? Or does what I say scare you to the point that the only way you feel better is to threaten me with physical violence?
It will be a cold day in hell before I give a good damn about commentary offered by a spokesmouth of the communist Chinese government. My advice:
(1.) return to China
(2.) remain in China
(3.) live your government controlled life in China
(4.) refrain from giving advice or commentary that is not wanted, needed or requested.
In case he (or you) haven’t noticed, there are some major differences between the US and China. We have this document called the Constitution, as well as our Bill of Rights. The (2) most important rights according to the founders were (1) our right to free speech AND (2) our right to bear arms.
* the rights outlined above apply to American citizens. Personally I think anyone who disagrees with said rights should forfeit all rights granted and be provided a 1-way ticket to the shithole of their choosing, where they shall live out their remaining anti-American days.
Nobody wants to hurt you bluedouche Him/clown, we just want you to take your communist opinion some place else, copy that dummy?