Posted on 12/06/2022 5:19:10 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
As Americans know, the surest way to create a tyrannical government is to ensure the general public has no means to resist authoritarian measures.
The French used to understand this as well, considering that one of the country’s foremost scholars, Alexis de Tocqueville — author of “Democracy In America,” circa the late 1700s — was a seminal work in describing the benefits and advantages of a free, open society.
That included a favorable analysis of the U.S. Constitution, a truly unique document written by our founders and ratified by the new states that empowered people over their government and guaranteed them fundamental rights, like the right to keep and bear arms (again, so that government could not become too powerful and tyrannical).
Fast-forward to the present.
De Tocqueville is long gone, and the French republic is a shell of its former self, as evidenced by the thousands of citizens who are now turning in “illegal” guns to their masters (as if they learned nothing from World War II, either).
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65,000 guns out of 6 million? That’s barely 1% compliance. I am rather proud of them.
Those hogue grips are junk.
The “Yellow Jacket” movement put the fear of G-d into the French ruling classes, and the French sheeple gave into them.
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It’s not the 1% who are giving up their guns that would worry me. It’s how many neighbors will they snitch on.
Not so much. Barely a 1% compliance rate. If they started trying to confiscate firearms here and offered an amnesty period, you could expect a similar rate here.
The French Army was the largest in the world in 1940. Some 4 million men.
Hmmm. I have some reading to do. Thank you.
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