Posted on 03/01/2002 5:08:37 PM PST by DGallandro
In the last 24 hours, I have read some of the most depressing material I think I have ever viewed in my lifetime about the Holocaust, about how millions of human beings were led helplessly to slaughter like sheep. Along with it I read some of the slick “Violence Control Policy” literature looking “hopeful” about disarming more and more Americans through lies, trickery, fake “studies”, and other forms of propaganda which would have made Joseph Goebbels a proud papa.
“Let’s do it for the children” they say, and cite statistics of “children” being accidentally killed. So they want to take the guns away from YOU, the responsible adult. At that moment, you are so distressed at even the thought of your kids killing themselves with your firearms, you’d gladly give them up at that moment. But what those same people won’t tell you is that once you give those guns up, you will never get them back, you will never again be able to replace them. You also must consider that while they preach to disarm you, they do little about replacing your firearm with an effective substitute means of protecting yourself and your children. Because there isn't one.
Tell me, what happens when you get rotten service from a restaurant? You complain to the manager, who tries to make it right because his business depends upon you. You can’t be forced to eat there, you can’t be forced to spend your money there.
Tell me, what happens when you get rotten service from the government? Tough patootie. Oh sure, you think you're being effective when you complain to a superior, another faceless functionary, who pays you lip service but in the end does absolutely nothing. Because these people take our money through taxes and we don’t have a choice but to pay them. Why should the Mafia care if you’re mad at them? They have the guns, you don’t. All you can do is (and I quote from the movie “Liar Liar”):
“Piss and moan like an impotent jerk…”
Because you have absolutely no means of recourse. The government can do to you as it wants without fear. Because they have convinced you to disarm yourself.
Resist the government? They’ll shoot you. Look at Waco.
Yes, let’s look at Waco for a moment. A bunch of crazies, a cult, but generally peaceful and for the most part not harming anyone but themselves. But armed, because the ATF said so and that was why the ATF was there.
The ATF came in with a raid team and got SHOT. So they set up a military siege until they got what they wanted.
A band of wackos held off the United States Government. What a big black eye for the “Justice Department” (I contend that there is no justice in the Justice Department, but that’s a whole other rant)! To be the highest-technology country in the world held off by a bunch of civilians! If the government had had their way, that standoff would never have happened. They’d have just stormed in like they did in Miami with Elian and taken what they wanted, imprisoned who they wanted, and paid lip service to those who complained.
It happens all the time. I am not making this up.
You may believe that just your “sporting rifle” and you cannot effectively resist the might of the United States Government.
You may believe that if you just “keep your nose clean” and follow the law, everything will work itself out.
You may believe that those people who want to “stop the violence” by taking away your firearms really have good intentions.
But none of these beliefs are true. Gun confiscation is a very tricky business. The government wants to take all the guns they can using non-violent legal channels before ever risking a house-to-house disarmament. 1930's Germany was made up of honest, hardworking citizens who believed in their country and their government. When that government told them to turn in their weapons for the sake of public safety, they complied.
A large portion of those who complied were mass slaughtered by the millions and buried in mass graves, never to be accounted for.
The reason why the Holocaust was so effective was that the mass slaughter of those unarmed millions was efficient to the government. Just one person with a rifle and a few rounds of ammunition drove the price in manpower and equipment way, way up. I cite as my primary example the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, where ten men with hidden handguns managed to hold off trained Wehrmacht for quite a while. Bet that put a crimp in their efficient time schedule for slaughter!
That’s why confiscation is so touchy here. We don’t have just a few people with antiquated hunting rifles. We have scores of “wackos” out there with top of the line “assault weapons” made for no other purpose than killing people. Truth be told, they are just rifles, and have a myriad of purposes depending upon their calibers, but since the Gun Control people like to tout around that these "evil" weapons' main design is for killing people, then I concur, and according to the Military, they're pretty darn efficient at it. When I'm planning on defending myself and my family from the two-legged predator, you can bet I am going to have the best I can buy. If it's good enough for the government, it's good enough for me. You go with your conscience.
And that makes the government nervous. They cite criminal behavior as a reason to take away your guns. Even though you have never committed a crime. But these same guns, unspeakably evil and horrible in your hands and your neighbors' hands suddenly become fine and dandy in the hands of government agents? When they already don’t answer to you? Can do what they want to you? And you just stand there and take it? ARE YOU STUPID??
So they say they want reasonable compromises such as background checks and waiting periods. If these compromises are so reasonable, and are “just to make sure criminals don’t get guns” then TELL ME WHY they require a background check for EVERY FIREARM you purchase, NOT just the first one? Why is proving that you already HAVE a gun not enough to make a background check somewhat irrelevant? Because, dear friends, a background check or any other form of delay before actually acquiring a firearm, is a form of HARRASSMENT. It is totally ineffective in controlling crime, or criminals. It is, plain and simple, a way to make exercising your rights a little more inconvenient, thus causing less people to want to exercise them.
I am NOT making this up. Are you old enough to remember the “poll taxes” and the “literacy tests” in the Deep South, designed so that people without proper understanding would not vote irresponsibly? Isn’t it amazing how the people without proper understanding or sufficient funds for the poll tax always seemed to be black and poor?
I find it highly ironic that today’s gun control is backed by the NAACP,when those gun control laws in 1934 were specifically aimed at black people,or “Sons of Ham” as was unabashedly spoken by a statesman of the time.
Do not surrender to the hopelessness of what is to come. I am not a doomsayer saying the end of the world is near. It is not. But in seeking to do what is legal, you are being pushed into a corner which is going to require some people dying to get out of. The sooner you accept that, the higher on the food chain you will be if you survive. Your other option is to realize, quite realistically, that critical mass is still some ways off, and you can put off your preparations until the last minute, just like the victims of the Los Angeles Riots as they fell victim to their own "15 day cooling-off period". Or for that matter, the Los Angeles Police Officers when their politically-correct 9mm sidearms and shotguns proved no match for bank robbers with real assault rifles, mowing down officers and civilians alike 7 years later; The shop where the officers went for their "assault weapons" on Oxnard street just went out of business this week. So that's another source gone. Pay attention. It is happening all around you and it is just about too late. You can sit and read this and keep saying "You Wacko David...it'll never happen in my lifetime, you just can't think of anything better to write about," and hope that what I'm seeing, what I'm hoping you are seeing, is not happening.
Or you can be exterminated. Not today. Not tomorrow. Hopefully not even in your lifetime. But being disarmed only guarantees your extinction, as doing so takes the choice of living irrevocably out of your hands.
If you want gun control, fine. You first. And when you get attacked, raped, robbed, shot, mauled, or your family is harmed, you deserve exactly what you get. Don’t call me mean-spirited for saying that; You’re the idiot who gave up the means to protect your most cherished assets because you let some slickster talk you out of your possessions for the very sake of those assets that you as a parent have your sacred duty to protect: your children.
So go ahead. Turn in your weapon. Murder your children by proxy. Or keep your weapon. Keep it quiet. Keep it safe. Don't flash it about or announce loudly that you have it; But keep it handy. Because as the victims of the LA Riots will tell you, when you need a gun, nothing else will do, and if you don't have one, by the time you need it, it will be too late. You are the only person on this earth who can and will protect your children. To give this responsibility to anyone else other than yourself makes you not only an incredibly bad parent, but also a foolhardy and irresponsible person, and you deserve to see your children shot in their schools, raped by strangers, taken advantage of by others, while you stand by, wringing your hands helplessly, thinking positive moral thoughts about why you can’t help them. How sick. How Irresponsible. But how totally Politically Correct. You make your decision. You will live with it.
So yes, do whatever it is makes you feel safe, for the children.
They will thank you for it on that cold morgue slab. Really.
My kids know about guns, one goes to the range and will be entering competition next year. I am as proud as I can be of him. He is not a delinquent, gets above-average grades, is noticeably not violent, but has his own gun, and he has a key to his gun box. In some states I could be criminally charged for this, but I am not concerned for my child. I have taught him well and he is nearly an adult, and fully capable of making decisions for himself, life or death ones if necessary should I not be there to protect him, because he has grown up around firearms and neither fears nor trivializes them. He respects them as a delicate tool which requires great care to operate because of its power. I am comfortable in his handling of that power. I have taught him early and I have taught him well, for as God as my witness I will not allow what happened in the PRK (People’s Republik of Kalifornia) happen to my family, with the 14 year old girl watching as the crazy nutcase with the pitchfork kills her two siblings while she is babysitting them in their home; while she stands by helplessly watching them be taken from this earth right before her eyes after she did the "recommended responsible thing": calling the police, and nothing further, because the family’s firearms were locked up BY LAW. Those guns were safe, all right. That fourteen year old did not kill a single person. Instead, she got the rare privilege of watching her siblings killed with a pitchfork by a madman with no respect for the law or human life. And she gets to live with the trauma of the knowledge that she was skilled and fully capable of defending herself and them if she had only had access to her firearm. Her father was quoted afterward as saying he’d locked the guns up because he didn’t want to go to jail for leaving a firearm within easy access of a minor. That law cost him two children. So "if it saves just one child" is garbage. It did not save these two. It murdered them.
Yes, those gun locks do work for children, don’t they? Soon we’ll have less children to protect because of those wonderful labor-saving devices. You should feel proud, that someone felt so much care toward your children as to place yet another barrier between you and their defense.
You get the government you deserve, which is quickly heading towards a totalitarian police state (the PRK is already there). The only thing stopping it is not the good intentions of the bureaucracy or the people involved in it, nor is it the actions or intentions of the do-gooders or the NRA or any organization. The only reason why we do not already have a police state is sheer economics.
If home invasion is made expensive in life and equipment, it will not be cost effective for anyone to do it, including the government. Sure, there is a risk to being prepared, but there is an even higher risk to not being prepared, and being prepared never hurts you as long as you do not flaunt it. Plus, if enough people think as I do and are prepared, it tips the scales towards non-cost-effectiveness to invade homes, which makes not only my home safer, but yours, as well, not that I expect any gratitude from you. I am simply your neighbor and am selfishly looking after my own best interests; the fact that you benefit is just your luck, not by my design. Not that I would seek to harm you as you have me, ostracizing me socially, calling me a "nut case" and "gun toting psycho" and "hate monger" and generally putting me down, working hard to hurt my feelings, saying right to my face that you hope I kill myself with my own gun. And you have the gall to call me mean-spirited? Sure, I'm a little irritated at you, but still I stand up to protect myself, and by default you. Say thank you, you ungrateful bastards.
Come on, say it.
I didn't think so.
You slaves. You get the government you deserve. You have to. I do not. I have a gun and the skill to use it. I don’t work for the government. I’m not “Law Enforcement Only”. But we live in the same world as those Law Enforcement Only types, and while I’m sure they and those who represent (read "toady to") them would love to tell you that they’re privileged because of the job they do, the training they receive, and the supervision they have, I am here to tell you it’s a load of bunk. Anyone can get trained. There are places to go. There are certified instructors who will teach you if you care. But you won’t. You don’t care enough about your children to do that. You would rather delegate the responsibility of your children to someone who seems sincere and honest and tells you they care. But the truth is that if you support gun control for the sake of “the children” you are a terrible parent, shirking your basic responsibilities to your children and should probably give up them up anyhow because you are not qualified to raise them.
I keep my gun ready to protect my children. Because I’m the best qualified person I know to do it. If you’re not qualified, you have no excuse but to get qualified. This is not a responsibility you can delegate, unlike day care and television, your Electronic Baby Sitter. Learning to use your firearm effectively is your sacred duty if you have children. It is also your responsibility to handle and store it safely while not in use. But most importantly, you must get training. Training is available. Safety equipment is available. Good instructors, while hard to find and cost a bit, are available. The fact that you value your money and your delicate feelings more than you value your kids says a lot about you. The fact that you would support “feel good” garbage in place of real work and responsibility, then condemn those who do that work and shoulder that responsibility says two glaring things: 1) You are a hypocrite, and 2) You are a bad parent and you deserve whatever heartache is bestowed upon you by a cruel society and all of its ills.
But good luck. You might be able to wing it for a little while longer until reality catches up. There are people for whom reality hasn’t caught up with in their entire lifetime. Hoping that you are one of them seems to be your best option. It works for celebrities, but of course celebrities have the choice of hiring full-time armed professionals to guard their kids. Because they're better than you or me, just ask them.
As a final afterthought, isn't it interesting that those who live in neighborhoods where they can afford to "not see the need" for guns are working so hard to take them away from those who cannot afford to live there?
Just a thought
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