Pakistan Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was shot to death by a fanatic because of his opposition to blasphemy laws. Pakistan is awash with guns and such is the fear of extreme right wing hatred that liberals have gone into hiding. Sherry Rehman, a lawmaker opposed to the blasphemy laws has been advised to go abroad after receiving numerous threats. In Tucson, Arizona in the US, Congresswoman Gabrille Giffords, a Democrat was shot in the head and at least 6 people have been killed including a 9 year old girl by 22 year old Jared Lee Lougher. In US too " liberal " is a word of abuse and recent congressional elections saw right wing candidates talking in terms that Pima County Sheriff, Clarence W Dupnik said was " vitriolic rhetoric." Just as Pakistan has a shadowy element, the ISI which lurks in the shadows and controls these fringe groups so the US has its National Rifle Association, NRA encouraging disturbed people to its own agenda. In Pakistan the Jihadi groups have turned against the country and are killing locals so in the US guns smuggled across the border into Mexico are being used by drug gangs to kill US law enforcement officials. Just as the Jihadis use paranoid rubbish to justify killing innocents so the NRA justifies open selling of guns by the idiotic logic, " guns don't kill, people do." Just as the Jihadis use their own interpretation of the scriptures as justification so the NRA twists some amendment for its own vile use. Pakis shout " God is great " while the US motto is " In God we trust." Pakistan economy is broken while the US, while still the richest nation, is trying to get there by giving tax cuts to the rich. Sound like siamese twins, don't they?