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8/8/2019

Amnesty International Travel Warning: Use Extreme Caution When Visiting The U.S.

Filed under: General — Dana @ 6:53 am



[guest post by Dana]

Politics:

Amnesty International today issued a travel warning calling for possible travelers and visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the country due to rampant gun violence, which has become so prevalent in the United States that it amounts to a human rights crisis. It aims to hold up a mirror to the U.S. using the model of the United States Department of State’s travel advice for U.S. travelers to other countries.

“Travelers to the United States should remain cautious that the country does not adequately protect people’s right to be safe, regardless of who they might be. People in the United States cannot reasonably expect to be free from harm – a guarantee of not being shot is impossible,” said Ernest Coverson, campaign manager for the End Gun Violence Campaign at Amnesty International USA. “Once again, it is chillingly clear that the U.S. government is unwilling to ensure protection against gun violence.”

The travel advisory addressed growing gun violence, mostly hate crimes, including racism and discrimination, highlighting that the traveler’s race, country of origin, ethnic background, sexual orientation or gender identity may place them at higher risk after recent attacks linked to white supremacist ideology.

A “human rights crisis”?

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

15 Responses to “Amnesty International Travel Warning: Use Extreme Caution When Visiting The U.S.”

  1. This seems to be a growing trend.

    Dana (fdf131) — 8/8/2019 @ 6:53 am

  2. Hopefully, it’ll scare off some illegal aliens. Why come to the USA? Its a MADHOUSE

    rcocean (1a839e) — 8/8/2019 @ 7:21 am

  3. It’s been a while since I took AI seriously.
    Classify it as leftist PR and circular file it would be my advice.

    Kishnevi (49889c) — 8/8/2019 @ 7:22 am

  4. Agree, Kishnevi. Purely politics and advocacy. Everything seems to go to crap.

    Dana (fdf131) — 8/8/2019 @ 7:25 am

  5. AI has gone downhill much in the same way as much of the ACLU. It’s filled with true believers of one side of the political spectrum.

    whembly (51f28e) — 8/8/2019 @ 7:52 am

  6. Good thing amnesty international hasn’t heard of Wyoming or Idaho. We’d be deluged with tourists.

    Gordon Pasha (df4b57) — 8/8/2019 @ 8:26 am

  7. Hey! … AI is all about teh freedoms!!! This has to be old, nary a wrinkle on Keef’s puss…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQiYK-21EI

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/8/2019 @ 9:34 am

  8. The International Socialist Movement speaks with one voice.

    Kevin M (21ca15) — 8/8/2019 @ 10:05 am

  9. But yes. Make this the Face of America! Guns. We have guns. Lots of guns. You want to be somewhere they don’t have guns, then go there, not here.

    Or maybe California. If you are living in CA, NJ, NY or other gun-free area, and want to move to another state, please check out their gun laws before you move. Most western states have very few gun laws. In NM, I can buy any number of guns without registering them, and keep them anyplace I want, loaded, so long as I don’t conceal them on my person. For that i need to take a class and pay a fee.

    Kevin M (21ca15) — 8/8/2019 @ 10:11 am

  10. Speaking of traveling to the USA…..

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JProskowGlobal/status/1159498431641075712

    harkin (58d012) — 8/8/2019 @ 10:54 am

  11. How many of these mass shooters post-Y2K purchased their gun(s) on the innernetz… anyone know?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/8/2019 @ 11:03 am

  12. You don’t really purchase a gun on the internet. You find a gun on the internet and you special order it through a Federal Firearms License dealer near you, who may be a stocking dealer or who may only do special orders. The gun is shipped to him, he conducts a background check on you, fills out the paperwork, transfers the gun to you, and collects a pre-agreed upon commission or markup from you.

    A very reputable “online dealer” is Davidson’s Gun Genie. The local FFLs who work with it are in the pre-agreed markup category. Click the link, go to the site, enter your zip code, pick a gun or category of guns, and you’ll see how it works.

    Basically, the only “loophole” is that you are spared the first trip to the gun store in places with waiting periods. But you are not spared the waiting period itself, the background check, the paperwork, or the trip to pick up the gun in person.

    nk (dbc370) — 8/8/2019 @ 11:20 am

  13. How many of these mass shooters post-Y2K purchased their gun(s) via a “reputable online dealer”… anyone know?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/8/2019 @ 11:28 am

  14. growing gun violence, mostly hate crimes

    Gun violence isn’t growing, and it isn’t mostly hate crimes or even mass shootings.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

    Gun violence against other persons is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males.[15][16] Although mass shootings are covered extensively in the media, mass shootings in the United States account for only a small fraction of gun-related deaths.[17]

    What may be growing is the number of mass shootings in he United States in public places. (and that may be a function of more rounds in guns)

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/mass-shootings-increasing-harvard-research

    We keep breaking records, or coming close to it, and now the 1966 Texas one is number 10.

    Sammy Finkelman (d542b2) — 8/8/2019 @ 11:35 am

  15. that’s a very flawed survey, sammeh,

    narciso (d1f714) — 8/8/2019 @ 11:51 am


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