Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.
A people loses its freedom the second we allow government to "protect" us from ourselves.
Post reconstrction, the Dems in the South passed State and local laws/ordinances prohibiting Blacks from owning or carrying guns.
On a local level, many small towns with low taxes and under-manned law enforcement saw a choice:
1) Prohibit carrying guns inside the town as guys would drink at the bar and then do stupid things as people who drink always do.
. . . . .or
2) Prohibit alcohol...go dry. Both objectively (and subjectively through religion which was based on the objective) it was very evident that alcohol was the worst social ill of society.
It continues today that alcohol (and now other brain altering chemicals) is the single highest correlation with gun tragedies as it is with car crashes, snowmobile, skiing, boating, swimming, hunting & fishing and falling in one’s own home and with domestic violence and getting fired from a job and not showing up for work, and getting injured on the job.
Since at least the early 1930 the well funded impetus for disarming the American populace has been driven by a cabal that includes (but is certainly not limited to):
The Ford Foundation
The Carnegie Corporation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The CFR (which is sort of a “Foundation Offspring”)
And as mentioned above, many others.
Currently these groups are funneling their money and support through avenues such as the Soros backed Tides Foundation.
From a philosophical point of view, the origin of the modern movement can be found as early as 1908 in the writings of Dewey and Tufts in their 1908 collection of essays titled “Ethics” in the section “Responsibility and Freedom” &“Rights and Obligations”
In short, Dewey and Tufts undertook to redefine the concepts that were the underpinning of all our founding documents. And that included the right to autonomous self-defense and the notion that political legitimacy derives from the “bottom up.”
These progenitors of modern Liberalism were nothing if not Elitists.
I think they actually decided “You shall be deprived of the ability to resist the whims of the evil foundation.” :)
>>100 years ago, a gun was like a toolbox, a flashlight, road flares or a hatchet. <<
The tradition hasn’t changed in my family.
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Its not just Soros.
Bill Gates has sent billions to the disruptors too.
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