The American Disarmament

Let's All Be Helpless

The present U.S. administration has moved into their highest possible mode in their effort to disarm the American people. Thank God that they are not a particularly competent group.

I have to admit that I come to this issue not unbiased. It always strikes me that this is one of those things that hits people on an emotional, gut level, one way or the other. For myself, when the disarmament push began during the Clinton administration, and we saw the constant use of half truths and outright lies spewing forth, it was a gut reaction, a sort of a feeling of “they're coming for us.” Others just bought into the propaganda. Strange, that they did not have such a gut reaction. To many of us it seems that they are ignorant, simple minded and easily fooled, yet many have good intelligence and education. What gives?

We have to ask the question, why would they even want to disarm us? Despite the impression given by the dominant culture there doesn't seem to be a safety from crime advantage, as if they were worried about our safety. They are driven to use the term “gun violence” rather than 'violence” to disguise the fact that murder and violent crime rates are not reduced by gun control, and may well be increased. If there were no guns there would be no gun crime, much as if there were no baseball bats there would be no cases of baseball bat assault and battery. The term is insulting to ones intelligence, you would think that there was no crime before the development of gun powder.

"That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants." ~ Jeff Cooper

The revolver with the tied off barrel is at the UN building, and may be thought of as the desire to prevent you from using a revolver to keep yourself out of a death camp, or from just presenting an impediment from those would would enslave all mankind. The powerful usually want to control all arms, deciding who may and may not have them, since an armed populace undercuts their power. Indeed, the Second Amendment codifies power to the people. It seems odd that many of those who, in their youth were chanting “power to the people” are now crying out for “power to the powerful.” (A hint, when the rich and powerful give you reasons for why they should have more riches and more power, it's a good idea to be skeptical.)

The above may sound extremist, but people forget the massive number of civilians killed by their own governments during the twentieth century alone, said to be 262 million by the University of Hawaii Democide Project.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

"The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story, 1833

We are told it doesn't matter, that anyone can just be scooped up at any time even with an armed populace. To some extent that is true, but the effort required goes up a lot. Going door to door all night through a city and rounding up thousands to be sent to labor camps, as was done in the Soviet Union, becomes impractical.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1, "Arrest")

"During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin Franklin

Always the impression given is that guns in America are a problem. Without critical thought it's easy to see it that way, but I think that guns are used as a general blame shifting device to be used as cover for any for societal problems caused by liberal policies.

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”  Thomas Jefferson

News coverage of the issue is always one sided, stressing the problems and ignoring the benefits. For example, we are led to believe that the U.S. has more mass shootings than any other country, but John Lott of the Violence Policy Center disagrees, maintaining that it simply isn't true, and the fact that mass shootings almost all occur in gun-free zones is suppressed.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2018/11/20/how-gun-free-zones-invite-mass-shootings/

A video by Bill Whittle disputing the narrative that firearms in America are a problem is at this link:

Home invasions are far more frequent in areas with strict gun control laws, and often with no stand your ground laws the homeowner is punished. This is evil, but it enhances the power of the politically powerful.

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”  Mahatma Gandhi

Remember, the only real reason that they want to disarm us is that they plan to do something to us for which we would shoot them.

"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell

More of my thoughts on this subject at these links.

https://drp314.substack.com/p/some-second-amendment-thoughts

https://drp314.substack.com/p/be-a-warrior-in-a-garden

https://drp314.substack.com/p/second-amendment-quotes

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