Posted on 08/21/2014 8:00:55 PM PDT by Nachum
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
By the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin became the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union after having eliminated his opposition.
He topped it off in 1929 by serving a decisive blow to anyone that would dare to oppose him by outlawing private gun ownership in the country.
From that year on until 1953 when Stalin died, it’s estimated that more than 20 million Soviet citizens that were seen as a threat to the country’s leadership.
People were rounded up and either murdered outright, or sent to infamous gulag labor camps.
Stalin is an extreme case. But history is ripe with examples of governments which disarm their citizens, only to engage in serious oppression afterwards.
Communist China. Nazi Germany. Cambodia. Guatemala. Uganda. The list goes on and on. Pacification of the citizens is almost always a prerequisite to totalitarianism.
There have been a lot of attempts to disarm, or at least partially disarm, people in the US throughout history as well.
Each time there’s a major shooting somewhere, the chant to ban firearms grows louder.
But the latest proposal is especially telling.
H.R. 5344 is a bill currently going through Congress that would ban the purchase of body armor.
Violation would carry CRIMINAL penalties, including up to ten years in prison.
Many bullet-resistant items on the market now, such as bulletproof backpacks for school children, would be banned by this legislation.
This is incredible given that the legislation is all about banning something that is purely defensive.
Whatever your stance on firearms, I hope we can agree that it’s pretty damn difficult to hurt another human being with body armor.
People buy body armor for protection. That’s the point. Duh.
So why in the world would they want to ban it?
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Civil servants first.
Lemme think...
Insanity.
https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5344/text
Michael Honda Democrat, California.
ban the purchase of body armor. -—
Clint made his own in A Fistful of Dollars.
What if you make your own?
As a cop...hell no...anyone not a felon should be able to.purchase possess and use body armor.
Now that we can safely assume that we have ISIS jihadists living among us, there is more reason to buy this protective gear.
The question should now be; whose side is Congress on?
What a shame Tyler didn’t name the (prolly RAT) politician pushing this BS POS.
Oh well, hecky durn. Most of the survivalist folks, will be rounded up, by already well established lists. Who cares what happens?
Twenty years ago if you told someone they were going to virtually outlaw cigarettes and stigmatize it to the point smokers were going to be treated like criminals, people would say you were delusional.
Don’t think this isn’t going to happen. Because it will. All totalitarian regimes work towards making the people they will subjugate, defenseless.
Don’t get all overwrought about this. A loon from the hostile Communist nation of Californistan proposed this and almost no one will vote for it.
Not before I'm dead and gone.
I did just that at least 20 years ago while trying to explain the concept of the slippery slope to those we now know as low information voters. Pissin' into the wind.
so, they don’t want you do arm yourself for self defense and now they don’t want you to defend yourself against the thugs who will always get arms
Bingo!
“H.R.5344 - Responsible Body Armor Possession”
I doubt it makes it out of committee and has only 3 Moonbat cosponsors.
Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]*
Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]*
Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]*
Gov Track gives it a generous 2% chance of passage.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr5344
I give it 00.0000002% chance of this moving anywhere out from under their CONg coffee cups.
This is a bill that Mike Honda introduced. It is going to go NOWHERE. It is currently in the judiciary committee and may never even surface from there for any kind of floor vote.
Yes it is good to be aware but this is in no way imminent
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