Right to keep and bear arms, part 3
After posting the first two entries in support of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), I planned to augment the statistics already presented with a reasoned conclusion. However, careful reflection has led me to believe that there is no reasoning with unreasonable zealots.
You either get it or you don't. You understand and support the Constitution or you don't. You cherish your constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms or you don't. So I will leave you with some closing thoughts from Guy Smith's Gun Facts 4.0:
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. Subsequently, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, deprived of the means to defend themselves, were rounded up and killed.
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. Then from 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents were rounded up and killed.
In 1938, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945 over 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, union leaders, Catholics and others, unable to fire a shot in protest, were rounded up and killed.
In 1935, China established gun control. Subsequently, between 1948 and 1952, over 20 million dissidents were rounded up and killed.
In 1956, Cambodia enshrined gun control. In just two years (1975-1977) over one million "educated" people were rounded up and killed.
In 1964, Guatemala locked in gun control. From 1964 to 1981, over 100,000 Mayan Indians were rounded up and killed as a result of their inability to defend themselves.
In 1970, Uganda got gun control. Over the next nine years over 300,000 Christians were rounded up and killed.
In all, over 56 million people have died because of gun control in the last century.
Ask yourself the following:
1) If guns are effective enough to be a criminal's preferred tool, why are they not
good enough to use for protection?
2) Why do politicians insist their bodyguards be armed, but not you and I?
3) If you and your children were face to face with a male attacker twice your size, what would you do -- If you weren't armed? If you were armed?
4) If guns are "too dangerous" to be in our society, how come our leaders want to be the only ones who have them? Do you trust our leaders implicitly to protect you at all times?
5) Which is better -- more gun control and the eventual banning of all guns in our society, or not sitting by helplessly watching as an intruder repeatedly rapes your 13-year-old daughter?
6) If we ever completely ban guns, do you think there will be no more armed criminals in America?
7) With so many gun laws already on the books, how come "gun crimes" still exist?
If as an American you still don't get it, you truly have my sympathy. Just remember that the Bill of Rights contains the first ten Amendments, not nine, three, or five -- it's all or none. What are you elitist, special-interest zealots going to do when some different radical cult with an opposing agenda attempts to abolish a liberty or liberties that YOU cherish most?