The Global Times, a state-owned news outlet controlled by the Communist Party of China, blasted American "private gun ownership" over the weekend, claiming that both gun ownership and deaths are "out of control" in the United States and represent "a serious violation of human rights."

Calling American gun violence "shocking in a U.S. allegedly governed by law," the editorial — in which no sources were cited — said that the U.S. is "beset with crises" related to gun violence.

The site says:

"Massacres and shootings should be deemed a serious violation of human rights. In the world's most modern society, people's lives are threatened by unregulated guns. Isn't this the most severe human rights flaw?"

? Gun commerce and ownership in the U.S. is regulated by numerous laws at the federal, state, and local levels, including required background checks, storage laws, concealed carry requirements, and other laws.

Communist China, however, is known for its myriad human rights abuses, including mass detention camps, "disappearing" dissenters, murdering religious minorities to harvest their organs, and Orwellian "social credit" scores based on mass surveillance.