“What do you want to do that requires a disarmed citizenry?”They must all be asked that. Frequently. At every opportunity.
That's certainly worth doing, MrB, though we already know the answer, which happens to be the one answer self-proclaimed "liberals" and "progressives" would never express aloud.
The history of leftist regimes during the past century is a history of censorship, political repression, poverty made worse by state policies, pseudo-science governed by political policies, increasingly rigid social stratification, political prisons, imperialist and ideological wars, and beyond all else, mass murder of citizens of leftist regimes. The leading "progressive" to date is Mao of communist China, who was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 million Chinese, most by starvation, and of that total, half or more were children.
Mass murder is most emphatically not a mere means to an end, but a goal whole and complete in itself. We can say mass murder is proof of psychopathology, proof of sociopathology, or any other scientific-sounding -ology; none of that, however, changes the fundamental fact:
Mass murder is the highest leftist goal.
Yes, exactly. Pathetic that the lessons of the old Soviet Union are so ignored -- and that its policies are being enacted as I write this:
How long will you keep killing people?" asked Lady Astor of Stalin in 1931. Replied Stalin, "the process would continue as long as was necessary" to establish a communist society.
I handled hundreds of signals to all parts of the Soviet Union which were couched in the following form:
To N.K.V.D., Frunze. You are charged with the task of exterminating 10,000 enemies of the people. Report results by signal.--Yezhov." And in due course the reply would come back:
In reply to yours of such-and-such date, the following enemies of the Soviet people have been shot.
------Former Soviet Spy-Chief Vladimir Petrov
Estimates of 61,911,000 Murdered in The Soviet Gulag State
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM