I checked the sources and the story is correct. The full text of the Chinese NY Consulate comments on gun rights is as follows:
"The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens' lives and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant gun ownership. The U.S. people hold between 35 percent and 50 percent of the world' s civilian-owned guns, with every 100 people having 90 guns (Online edition of the Foreign Policy, January 9, 2011). According to a Gallup poll in October 2011, 47 percent of American adults reported that they had a gun. That was an increase of six percentage points from a year ago and the highest Gallup had recorded since 1993. Fifty-two percent of middle-aged adults, aged between 35 and 54, reported to own guns, and the adults' gun ownership in the south region was 54 percent (The China Press, October 28, 2011). The New York Times reported on November 14, 2011, that since 1995, more than 3,300 felons and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors had regained their gun rights in the state of Washington and of that number, more than 400 had subsequently committed new crimes, including shooting and other felonies (The New York Times, November 14, 2011).
The United States is the leader among the world's developed countries in gun violence and gun deaths. According to a report of the Foreign Policy on January 9, 2011, over 30,000 Americans die every year from gun violence and another 200,000 Americans are estimated to be injured each year due to guns (Online edition of the Foreign Policy, January 9, 2011). According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Justice, among the 480,760 robbery cases and 188,380 rape and sexual assault cases in 2010, the rates of victimization involving firearms were 29 percent and 7 percent, respectively (
www.bjs.gov). On June 2, 2011, a shooting rampage in Arizona left six people dead and one injured (The China Press, June 3, 2011). In Chicago, more than 10 overnight shooting incidents took place just between the evening of June 3 and the morning of June 4 (Chicago Tribune, June 4, 2011). Another five overnight shootings occurred between August 12 evening and August 13 morning in Chicago. These incidents have caused a number of deaths and injuries (Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2011). Shooting spree cases involving one gunman shooting dead over five people also happened in the states of Michigan, Texas, Ohio, Nevada and Southern California (The New York Times, October 13, 2011; CNN, July 8, 2011; CBS, July 23, 2011;USA Today, August 9, 2011). High incidence of gun-related crimes has long ignited complaints of the U.S. people and they stage multiple protests every year, demanding the government strictly control the private possession of arms. The U.S. government, however, fails to pay due attention to this issue." quoting Examiner.com, 5/29/2012 report of China NY Consulate.
http://www.examiner.com/article/chi...-rights-violation?CID=examiner_alerts_article
I am not sure why the Chinese NY Consulate has chosen to focus on this, other than perhaps a covert report back to their home offices that the USA is out of the question for an invasion by China, because the people are too heavily armed, and therefore a militia alone could halt a Chinese advance, even though our regular army and other forces are deployed overseas to Afghanistan and Europe. In other words, although the door is wide open, with the regular troops being mostly gone, the militia potential, which China fully understands, having relied upon Vietnamese militias (VC) and even their own militias during Mao's march, would stop any incursion by Chinese troops.
Otherwise the Chinese embassy seems to be comparing the USA to Australia where fairly strict and regular requirements govern gun ownership and possession.
China has been poised to attack or repell the USA for about the past decade, with land based bombers and fighters lined up and always ready to launch, just like the USSR used to be. The difference is in numbers. The Chinese currently have overwhelming numbers, particularly since most US forces are forward-deployed to Afghanistan.
The only thing that China does not have in comparable numbers to the US is strategic nuclear missiles. They know it would be a gamble to launch their attack of overwhelming conventional bombers and fighters because the USA would likely bomb Beijing into the stone age, just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cutting off the head of the Chinese snake.
So here is the salient question for everyone here --
- if you see a Chinese pilot on the ground or parachuting from the sky, what are you going to do?
