It shows that a Communist rifle doesn't allow us the freedom to lock and load.

Having travelled in China extensively, I can tell you that there is not a great deal of "Communism", the way Marx, Lenin, Stalin, or even Mao might have imagined it. Historians of WWI will recall that US domestic politics included a faction that maintained that the two oceans were a natural protection against overseas aggressors and so involvement in the European war seemed pointless. Such people were called "isolationists", even though they were simply maintaining that the US simply **was** isolated. Anyway, China has had the Himalayas and huge deserts and the Pacific to protect it and was the same way. When technology changed that, all sorts of foreigners moved in. By the time the twentieth century arrived, Chinese were sick of foreign influence, and successive governments, Imperial (Qing dynasty), Guomentang (National People's Party = KMT), CPC (Communist Party of China), tried to kick everybody out. Mao's communism was, among other things, better organized, and at least kicked the Japanese, and later the Russians, out, making them great heros to the Chinese people for this alone. But now, after the Great Leap Forward, and other adventures, Chinese people including those within the Communist Party, have little more patience for socialism. State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the core of communism, are being systematically privatized, with a final result expected to resemble modern Britain c. 1975 (before Thatcher), and they are engaging in extensive joint ventures with foreign firms. China can't drop the word "Communist" easily for political reasons, but "socialism with capitalist characteristics" is not readily distinguishable from Tony Blair's species of moderate European socialism. Similarly, the U.S. cannot admit directly that most of the Cold War military spending was essentially a form of disguised Keynsian economics, and that Grumman and friends were essentially state-subsidized if not state-owned ent erprises. Eisenhower figured out but few others did.