Government is the most murderous force on earth.
Governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens since 1900, and gun control/confiscation was always the first step.
Government is the most murderous force on earth.
Governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens since 1900, and gun control/confiscation was always the first step.
The United Kingdom killed 819,000 of their own citizens last century?
The United States also has a history of killing people, just not nearly as many. And we tend not to be as upset by it.
Of course, there is the Civil War, which some people think was the worst example of the government using its power against the “civilian population” of the south. Don’t want to open that argument, just didn’t want to ignore the feelings of some about that.
And I imagine the leftists should be upset about the Kent State massacre, and the response to the Watts Riots, and the attacks against the civil rights protestors, and the slaughter of slaves throughout the years (some of these are extremely small numbers).
Those on the right have WACO, Ruby Ridge, and a few other cases where it seemed the government abused its power.
But it is an interesting conceit by the left, given how they felt about government in general, that they now believe it is “crazy” to think government could EVER do something for which an armed citizenry would be a necessary deterrent.
After all, without individuals who were armed, the lefties favorite governments, like the Soviet Union and Cuba, might not have ever come into existence.
And the whole “Arab Spring” thing starts with citizens who have weapons.
If the conservatives ever get back in charge of our government, the lefties will go back to being paranoid, even though our side usually is removing government control (that’s what lefties are paranoid about, that we will let businesses free).
In fact, I’d say the leftists are more paranoid about business than we are about government. I was at college last weekend and my daughter’s roommate was ranting about Monsanto and how they control the government — apparently they saw a movie about it in class.
