08-01-2016, 01:32 AM
Do you remember the panic in the US over Ebola? Governor Chris Christie ordered that a nurse returning from Africa be held in isolation and she was held for 3 days. In the US, guns are seen as the solution, not the problem. Viruses are only championed by nutters like the Westboro Baptist Church which believes they are God's means of wiping out sinners. You can defend against a bad man with a gun as long as you or some other good guy is carrying an M-16 but those damn mossies are hard to take down unless you deploy neutron bombs. Not even a 20 foot wall would save the nation.
Even that NRA gun nut Tom Clancy premised 'Executive Orders' on an attack by Iran using weaponised Ebola intended to cripple the US. Concurrent attacks by Iranian terrorists using M-16s on President Jack Ryan's daughter at her daycare centre were brushed off with President Ryan aghast at suggestions the attack Could be used to justify gun control
Films and books have certainly conditioned the public to fear epidemics. Google 'films about viral outbreaks' and you'll come up with at least 73, with a nice little sub-category dealing with zombie-causing outbreaks as The Walking Dead fans would well know.
Even that NRA gun nut Tom Clancy premised 'Executive Orders' on an attack by Iran using weaponised Ebola intended to cripple the US. Concurrent attacks by Iranian terrorists using M-16s on President Jack Ryan's daughter at her daycare centre were brushed off with President Ryan aghast at suggestions the attack Could be used to justify gun control
Films and books have certainly conditioned the public to fear epidemics. Google 'films about viral outbreaks' and you'll come up with at least 73, with a nice little sub-category dealing with zombie-causing outbreaks as The Walking Dead fans would well know.