Yoko Ono blames murder on guns
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Funny – in Vietnam, and I assume in Korea, there were LOTS of guns – lots of people armed to the teeth, even full-automatic weapons, and oodles of those nasty “assault weapons”. BIG stuff, too. Bombs, jets, artillery, grenades, mines. But the count was lower than a couple years in the US? Sort of proves that people with guns, even angry people with guns, don’t necessarily rack up big body counts.
It’s when the rule of law and the order of society breaks down that the mayhem starts. I guess one could surmise from this sort of attempted anti-gun statement that Nam was a pretty safe place to be those years, even if you were wearing a GI uniform, right? Yet America’s cities are admittedly much more dangerous than that.
So who’s to blame? Guns? The people who have guns? Or the corrupt and inept city mayors, police chiefs, judges, and corrections systems? Vietnam safer than New York, Chicago, Philly, LA, Atlanta? Maybe it’s because in Nam, there was no HCI and no ACLU?
Craig Palmer
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