Posted on 06/19/2022 9:06:04 PM PDT by bitt
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
The quote was from Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China. Mao’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away all guns from the population. It was a policy he began in 1935 as he took over each rural province. Anyone found with a gun post-confiscation was executed.
An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment, or forced famine.
Mao killed more people than either Stalin or Hitler during World War II. And it all began after he took away the guns.
Dictators throughout much of history have disarmed their populations before they began their mass killings. Examples abound beyond Mao: Hitler took guns from the Jews in November of 1938, and Kristallnacht and the Holocaust followed; and then there was Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to name but a few.
Cuba and Gun Control Everybody ought to have a gun, Castro maintained—until he took over Cuba in 1959. At a rally in Havana before he assumed power, he explained: “This is how democracy works: It gives rifles to farmers, to students, to women, to Negroes, to the poor, and to every citizen who is ready to defend a just cause.”
Weapons ranging from Czech submachine guns to Belgian FN automatic rifles were handed out to 50,000 soldiers, 400,000 militiamen, 100,000 members of the factory-guarding popular defense force, and to many men, women, and children in Cuba’s 1 million-strong “neighborhood vigilance committees.”
Immediately after assuming power in 1959, Castro changed his position, following Mao’s rule that guns should not be in the hands of the people.
For three weeks after the Castro government was formed, Radio Havana warned, “All citizens must turn in their combat weapons. Civilians must take arms to police stations, soldiers to military headquarters.”
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Posted by Gen. Flynn on Telegram today.
H/T : little jeremiah
“The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church”
—Second Century Martyr Tertullian
China/Mao certainly proved it.
Socialism everywhere has proven it.
Tyrranical governments everywhere have proven it.
The CIA helped put Castro into power.
Add the Ottoman Turk gun confiscation that led to the Armenian genocide in 1915.
50% of Republicans own a gun, 21% of Democrats, hence the need to disarm America before Democrats go full-auto CCP.
Canada is very close to killing anyone the gov’t does not like. Castro’s son declared no one should have the ability to defend themselves.
rellic, careful your FBI training is showing through.
Interesting point.
>> 50% of Republicans own a gun, 21% of Democrats,
Your Rat neighbor isn’t the threat. It’s the obedient govt boot that pretends to be a Constitutionalist.
The Country would be best served by militias involving all parties.
Keep “due process” in mind.
We’re not yet a Banana Republic.
The Country would be best served by militias involving all parties.
Maybe so, but militias draw government agents like manure draws flies.
ergo, the more the better.
Unless you participated in the Jan 6 event and are conservative.
This is exactly what the people who vote for the democrat party want. It is not just the politicians that want us dead. It is all the voters as well.
And if you think that cant happen here and we are dealing with rational caring people just look around you.
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