If you
don’t believe the title of this article then you should learn
history. After all a careful search of history will bear this out as
the following quote from the socialist dictator Adolf Hitler shows.
This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized
nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our
police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the
future.” —Adolf Hitler, 1935
I’m
certain that more research into gun control laws on a world-wide
basis would reveal that more tyrants than Hitler used this method to
obtain total control of their nation. I know that the people of the
Soviet Union were not permitted to have guns. Nor were the people of
Mao's China. In England right now they are experiencing riots
because gentlemen are no longer armed. And one very effective tool of
the would be tyrant is to allow chaos to reign until the people
demand that something, anything be done to restore order to the
society.
I also
note this for consideration here: In our prisons all weapons are
supposed to be in the hands of the guards yet hardly a day goes by
(I’d guess that in aggregate no day goes by) without someone
(including an occasional guard) being stabbed. This of course does
not include the fact that some prisoners will be beaten by others
with fists or feet! Thus in the most controlled society that we have
we see the presence of weapons and violence without weapons.
Therefore we can draw the conclusion that it is not the weapons that
are the cause of the violence but rather the minds of men.
If you
are a woman you should be even more up in arms against any attempt to
disarm you. After all the greatest indicator that you will not be
raped is your ability to defend yourself. And ladies, a black-belt
rarely trumps a weapon of any sort not even a knife.
Of
course there are lots of laws regarding the size and type of knife
you may carry as well all of which make committing a mugging easier.
Or a home invasion less risky to the criminal. I join many who ask
why it is that after a shooting spree by someone we want to blame the
gun (which has no feet) for the mayhem caused by the deranged mind
that chose to make his fellow man an object of prey.
—William S. Burroughs