Here in the United States, the political left regularly calls for “gun control” (more of it). Especially following a shooting incident which fits their narrative.
The political left are opportunists (as of course are other political groups). However the political left will advantage the horrific acts of a violent person committing mass murder with a gun. They do this in order to vilify the weapon itself rather than the monster who committed the act.
Ask yourself why this is?
Well it’s rather obvious to most who have been around long enough to know the motivations of the anti-gun crowd. Their agenda, their end-game, so to speak, is to ban and remove ALL guns from the civilian population.
Other than the young and gullible who really really believe that more gun laws will curb violent people behavior, the rest of us know that of course, this is not true. It’s so ridiculously illogical that I won’t even bother wasting 500 words on why it’s illogical. It’s pointless to do so. You cannot argue with these people.
So I thought I would dig up some data where “gun control” and gun confiscation has led to some pretty horrible things… genocide.
What Is Genocide?
Genocide is a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group.
Though it has happened throughout history, the term came into use following WWII. “Genocide” combines genos, the Greek word for race or tribe, with the Latin suffix cide (“to kill”).
The Causes Of Genocide
Some internet research (and common sense understanding of human behavior) reveals the following possibilities:
Catastrophic Crisis
Catastrophic events such as war, economic depression or revolution are triggers for genocide or other types of mass killing.
Genocide motivated via a particular group which is identified as the cause of “the crisis” and that the solution is to eliminate the group.
“The crisis” creates the opportunity for a group to consolidate their power.
Government Power
“The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.”
Political opposition to the dominant power. State arrest, persecution or execution of a few members of a group. Designed to terrorize the majority of the group into passivity. ‘Authorities’ physically exterminate enough (not necessarily all) members of a target group so that it can no longer pose any conceivable threat to their rule or interests. This is more accurately referred to as Politicide.
Fractionalization | Dehumanization
Fractionalization or religious fractionalization within a country combined with grievances between groups. Dehumanization of the victim group.
20th Century Genocide
Here’s a summary of twentieth century genocide. Think it can’t happen again? You would be wrong. Look for a common denominator in this data. And then read on for more opinion.
Ottoman Turkey | 1915-1917
Gun Control Scheme:
Permits required, Government list of owners, Ban on possession.
Targets: Armenians (mostly Christians)
Civilians Killed: 1 – 1.5 Million
Soviet Union | 1929 – 1945
Gun Control Scheme:
Licensing of owners, Ban on possession, Severe penalties.
Targets: Political opponents; Farming communities
Civilians Killed: 20 Million
Nazi Germany | 1933 – 1945
Gun Control Scheme:
Registration & Licensing, Stricter handgun laws, Ban on possession.
Targets: Jews, Gypsies, Critics
Civilians Killed: 20 Million
China, Nationalist | 1927 – 1949
Gun Control Scheme:
Government permit system, Ban on private ownership.
Targets: Political Opponents; Rural populations; Enemies of the State
Civilians Killed: 10 Million
China, Red | 1949 – 1952 | 1957 – 1960 | 1966 – 1976
Gun Control Scheme:
Prison or death to “counter-revolutionary criminals” and anyone resisting any government program, Death penalty for supplying guns to such “criminals”.
Targets: Political Opponents; Rural populations; Enemies of the State
Civilians Killed: 20 – 35 Million
Guatemala | 1960 – 1981
Gun Control Scheme:
Register guns & owners, Licensing with high fees, Prohibit carrying guns, Bans on guns & sharp tools, Confiscation powers.
Targets: Mayans & other Indians; Political enemies
Civilians Killed: 100,000 – 200,000
Uganda | 1971 – 1979
Gun Control Scheme:
Register all guns & owners, Licenses for transactions, Warrant less searches, Confiscation powers
Targets: Christians, Political enemies
Civilians Killed: 300,000
Cambodia | 1975 – 1979
Gun Control Scheme:
Licenses for guns, owners, ammunition & transactions, Photo ID with fingerprints, License inspected quarterly.
Targets: Educated Persons; Political enemies
Civilians Killed: 2 Million
Rwanda | 1994
Gun Control Scheme:
Register guns, owners, ammunition, Owners must justify need, Concealable guns illegal, Confiscation powers
Targets: Tutsi people
Civilians Killed: 800,000
A Nefarious Reason For Gun Control
As you can see from the data above, all 20th century genocide followed a pattern of gun control followed by various methods of banning. The obvious reason for gun control in these instances were to remove power form the opposition.
The entities who are planning totalitarian rule and/or genocide will ALWAYS take the guns.
Why Our 2nd Amendment Exists
This is the real reason why our 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution exists. To protect ‘us’ we-the-people from such a government. Whosoever makes any attempt to diminish that defense is in my estimation a traitor to the founding principles of a free people.
I recently read a comment on another site which is related to today’s topic:
You can erase the second amendment from the Bill of Rights, but you cannot disarm the American public. Too many will not comply.
If another gun or another round of ammunition is not manufactured for private use from this day forward it will make no difference what so ever.
Hundreds of millions of guns and trillions of rounds of ammunition are in the hands of millions of people who believe that it is their God given right to be able to defend themselves from the dictatorship of the majority.
These people rightly understand that any effort to shred the Second Amendment breaches the social contract between the federalist and the anti federalist.
When the Constitution was first written, it was published in the nations news papers. It was cussed and discussed in the parlors, porches, pubs and pulpits in every state. It was not well received.
The statist who at the time marched under the banner of the Federalists quickly came to realize that their attempt to centralize power did not have enough support to be ratified if they could not get the anti federalists, the people who believed in state’s rights and popular sovereignty, on board.
It was at that time the statists made a gentleman’s agreement with the anti federalists to amend the Constitution and include a bill of rights protecting the individual from the dictatorship of the majority.
Break that agreement and the social contract is broken.
The only thing that stands between the dictatorship of the majority and the minority is the second amendment. Once the minority is disarmed, genocide is the inevitable consequence.
The Rush To Gun Control After A Shooting
My inspiration for writing this today follows the horrific mass murder in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend.
As expected, within minutes and subsequent hours afterwards, politicians are using this violent person’s actions to further “gun control”. Here we go again. It happens every, single, time.
And this time won’t be the last time.
Reasonable people know and understand that mental, crazy, violent people will be able to get their hands on any weapon they desire, regardless of law.
Most reasonable people also know and understand that there will always be a element within human society which is capable of such things. We must be able to defend ourselves against it. Not to have our tools stripped away.
As a reasonable people we also know and understand history. And so did our fore fathers.
One wonders about the real truth behind the desire to diminish and/or ultimately abolish our 2nd Amendment right.
Continue reading: We Don’t Have A Violent Gun Problem | We Have A Violent People Problem
KEN ,,,,super good ,,thank you ,,
Amen ,
Thank you Ken
Very well written Ken. I wish all politicians would read these words you’ve written. I am certain what category they would put most of us law abiding, citizens that feel it important to take care of our own.and that is what frightens me.
“One wonders about the real truth behind the desire to diminish and/or ultimately abolish our 2nd Amendment right.”
I would have to add, one wonders about the real truth behind the push to eliminate history and/or cover only history that is deemed “appropriate” for small snowflake minds. If they don’t know the history they can’t call on it.
Another common denominator seemed to be rural targets.
And that ain’t hay! 😝
The 2nd Amendment is the guardian of the Constitution. If it is ever dissolved the other rights will quickly follow.
R C,
Exactly right on target with the 2nd amendment (pun intended) . When it is gone ,and it is rapidly slipping away, all other rights will follow.Things appear to be heating up for a hot summer.
That is why we have the 2A
The Constitution is a tool of and for We The People, it is not given to us by politicians, government nor their hired or appointed thugs. PERIOD
The question is when the time comes will folks stand up or be fakes as Matt in Ok said????
Never thought i would see things getting this spicy in our home country.
IMHO
Most people are peace loving.
Most people need to really have their toes stepped on to act with severe malice and extreme violence.
Being instantly labled as terrorist and felons may well be that step
Great info Ken. It would be nice to send this to all the politicians as mentioned above but I think it would be like communicating with a buffalo chip.Not to disparage the buffalo but congress is deaf to us.
Venezuela is the most obvious example of government gun control.It may very well happen here as well.
Sadly I am not surprised at the rush to capitalize on the Horrors of these well televised events.
Nothing that don’t happen in many Democratic Cities every week like Chicago, Baltimore and others but HEY it’s not black on black violence so a Leftist’s dream event. I still hold to the idea that this was Planned and Sponsored Events. Keeps the Epstein situation out of the news, covers for all the attention to the 3rd world violent situations in Democratic Cities Trump brought us and other way too Left Debate Sound bites not so good for Democrats in the news recently.
That said, think a moment about what Rapid Legislation can be pushed through Technically NOT Violating the 2nd AD. A “Temporary” Moratorium on Ammo Sales perhaps? It’s not a BAN but… Then institute a Finger Print ID to buy ammunition? Nothing in the 2nd AD says you cannot be forced to show ID for ammo. Isn’t it California that has already led the way here?
The 3 letter Agencies did not spend out tax dollars on Super Computers and all that surveillance stuff to collect dust right? You may not “Own” any G U N S but you bought ammo Sir?
All here know that country wide door to door weapons seizures will not work BUT a few done for Hollywood SWAT team specials with TV Helicopters will get some folks to turn them in for the safety of their family?
Police are not stupid, if your a known hazard to them (Cold dead fingers crowd)you will get swept up in the parking lot of your shopping center by a couple of white vans or SUV’s by folks well trained in body snatching or a Police Sniper will do the deed. A Soviet Style Show Trial maybe some planted “Evidence” your a child Perv (so easy with a USP port and data stick) to rob you of your family support?
Add to that maybe some food crisis/Bank Holiday? China’s kicking our stock market to the curb right now. We lost the war on drugs, lost the war on Poverty and Surprise Losing the Trade War with a most powerful economic enemy.
Food is also a weapon, who do you know that would turn you in for weapons IF their families Government food ration required it? “Daddy I’m HUNGRY” is a powerful persuader.
Have a sacrificial food supply for the Anti-Hoarder Patrol, have a sacrificial item or three depending how much your neighbors can describe to the “Committee of Public Safety” G U N Patrol. Learn how to act the part of a busted flush All Hat No Cattle person who is harmless now that the “Committee of Public Safety” robbed them for the safety of the “Children”.
Otherwise “Cold dead fingers” might be correct.
Our forefathers did not fight from their door steps, and for most of the American Revolution hit and run was the only tactics. The famed “Shot heard around the world” when we first stood our ground openly HAD A GOOD REASON. The British were heading to capture the main gunpowder supply of the Colonies. Look at the real result of that valiant stand to slow the British regulars. Costly But to their Honor and Glory the powder supply was saved so we still had ammunition to fights at all.
The only reason Hitler didn’t kill all the Jews..was he didn’t have today’s computers to help him.
Same goes for any enemy of the State, of any sort, today.
You do not need to show your license, or get fingerprinted, for the government to know who you are. All that is needed is your transaction records from your ATM credit/debit card, and your cell phone in your pocket.
You see, financial information is secretly available to our government, without your knowledge, or consent. Your cell phone allows your movements to be secretly monitored to within a few feet 24/7. Your calls from your phone can be recorded, voice prints taken, and all the numbers, you call…or who call you…documented.
The government may observe everything you purchase and where you purchased it, and how much of each item you purchase. Should you decide to hide someone from the government in your home, the government…knowing this wanted person was known to you…simply looks for any changes in your purchases…and changes in the quantity of items, especially food items. If suddenly, you are purchasing more food, or something you have not purchased before…but the wanted person usually purchased, the government will raid your home.
Basically, you must act, if you are ever going to act, very quickly once the government starts to disarm you. You will have no chance if you wait for them to come to you. YOU must go to them, instead, as you must be on the offensive. You should not be running from them, but toward them, advancing on their positions, and safe zones. You shall not be a criminal fleeing the police, but a free citizen attacking agents of an enslaving, criminal, government.
Excellent article Ken. You might want to add Cuba and Venezuela to your list as I understand many are being murdered by the Maduro government there from Venezuelan refugees we feed at our church here in Florida.
Our Revolution was preceded by violent incidents like the Boston massacre and The Tea Party. Our first Civil War was preceded by John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and the Kansas/Missouri border war. It is my humble opinion that America is in a cold Civil War between two cultures that is heating up. Should the non-Christian Left win, yes there will most certainly be genocide.
Just an FYI, according to Robert Spencer @ Jihad Watch, Islamic Jihad is responsible for up to 250 million murdered in it’s 1,500 years of terror.
A lot of people have no respect for human life. You have the power to take a life but no one on this earth can restore it. Only the man above can do that.
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
~Will Durant
Always the objects fault…
What is sad, is these sheep will wake up one day and wonder. What happened? How did America become this? How did we end up destroyed? Because you wanted your free stuff from the government. You let them do whatever they wanted. You chanted, voted and went along with it. To get “free stuff” and because your feelings got hurt. Basically that is it. We conservatives tried to warn you that the liberal playbook was from the Communist manifesto. You refused to listen. Welcome to your utopia. If we don’t stop this, it will be just like Venezuela.
I’ll quote what my daddy said to me when dealing with me as a hard headed teenager, ” Some people have to learn the hard way !”. These willfully ignorant wannabe socialist youths (and some older dumb asses) may well learn the hard way. The old saying goes, you never realize how good you had it until its gone.
“To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.”
No doubt, the coming weeks’ media will be wall to wall “gun control”. Been through this, and the resulting run on guns, ammo, and the resulting shortages and price gouging. Just placed an order for ammo and reloading brass to beat the stampede.
…hopefully for long term storage, Dennis.
Ordered a fresh barrel here. And 2 jugs of powder.
Modern Throwback,
Long term storage? Yeh……kinda, sorta, maybe. I shoot……a lot, so this is just maintaining inventory, maybe increasing it a little. My standard inventory is more than most would shoot in a life time. Should conditions merit, I could stop my almost daily time on the range, and have more than enough for survival level consumption to outlast myself, my kids, grand kids, and great grand kids. (and their families)
What can I say? I don’t drink, party, cuss too much, or play golf. My recreational passion is trying to get ever better with my handguns, (doesn’t cost me much more than the vices I listed that I don’t do) and I ain’t hurt or killed nobody with any of the untold number of rounds I’ve hammered those steel targets with (well, unless you count the occasional blister I get under the callouses on my trigger finger).
Very good article Ken.
The idiots in government need to understand we the people are the government, they are our public servants, not our rulers
There are to many violations of the constitution already. 1st,2nd and 4th……..
Thor
They dont and will never get it, politicians think they are our betters spending their time allowing the little people to carry on
The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
– Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
Well said Ken
Give up my arms
LOL
Yeah, right.
And I’m keeping my damned legs, too
If I’m elected President, 50cals for everyone
Lindsey Graham has partnered with Richard Blumenthal for a nationwide red flag law. Details are not being shown but supposedly Trump likes it.
I’ll post a link in my reply. Just a fyi Lindsey Graham was pushing for this about 6 months ago. I could be wrong on the timeline but he was wanting this awhile ago. I’ll see what I can dig up. If I recall the details where a person could report you were very bad. Meaning basically anyone could report you without any repercussions.
A&O
11HE9,
That is the danger of so called red flag laws. Anyone could theoretically report you. Make anything up they want. You will be guilty until proven innocent. You will have zero recourse if and until afterwards (court proceedings) which will cost you dearly (assuming you can afford it).
Definitions and threat assessments will be up to the government and their interpretations, and up to judges (and we all know how that works with judges, especially in certain jurisdictions).
So far what I’ve read about the topic in general, something like this would be wide open to interpretation. It’s Pre-Crime, just like the Tom Cruz movie.
While ‘some’ politicians may have good intentions to somehow prohibit truly ‘mental’ people from accessing guns, the fact will always remain that just about anyone can get a gun, regardless of law. Even if they’re crazy.
We haven’t had this kind of problem until relatively recently. It’s not a gun problem. This is a cultural societal problem. A people problem. A societal decay problem. In my view, it cannot be fixed without decades of fixing, assuming there was the will to do so. It’s complicated. Lots of factors have broken it down.
I believe we’re looking at a myriad of major problems in our future.
I don’t have the answers. But I do believe it’s going to get rocky.
Ken,
You are correct. This is Minority Report in real life. I think I picked the correct movie. Aka thought/future crime. Presumed guilty not innocent like our system was designed to work.
We already have red flag laws in Florida and although it has certain rules that apply to have a red flag imposed on someone. It still is a complete violation of the bill of rights.
There are already several states that have the red flag law that is so unbelievable and intrusive that a past roommate or lover can accuse you of being a threat even if they were not involved with said person a year ago.
Very scary. We are in for a tough time. This country has fallen so far since I sworn to up hold the constitution.
A&O
Yep, talk about mskin a person want to withdraw from society,,, sheesh
Ken,
You are absolutely correct in that it would be a decades long process, however you and I both know there is no political will for real solutions. What will happen is band-aid measures and further erosion of our rights, resulting in some rather sporty times. I think it will likely begin at or immediately after the 2020 elections and get worse from there.
Ken, The rebuilding of society….That is one more reason for people to home school their children and grandchildren, those with farm connections get special assistance in teaching/learning experiences…. by Teaching them a whole way of life, to think critically and evaluate responses..with both animals and others.
By parents limiting inputs to their children via TV, “entertainment packages” they can rebuild a large portion of society in a decade. IMHO why some states are fighting home school options. Those”children” are harder to brainwash because they have experienced both life and death at an early age in actuality, not on a video platform that renews self with the click of a button.
Those opposing home school argue because of “lack of socialization,” which is in reality a non event., as most families have some kind of “church family”, classrooms, and playgrounds available.They do not learn to conform to all rules, and that is the crux of the matter..
The route parents choose to go, as far as curriculum and life experience from an early age will help our youth come thru this dark time of indoctrination’s. By re-establishing life and moral values society can be healed. It will be one family, one home at a time..
Read somewhere that the life expectancy of a Democracy is 300 years.
100 Years to Build it
100 Years to Enjoy it
100 Years to Destroy it
We’re well on our way IMHO
no guns
results in a government that ignores the wishes of the the people who elected them ! brixet has still not happened , because our government has become rulers in this country and not representatives . many of our politicians have armed guards to protect them from an unarmed population ! more and more our police are carrying arms , pepper spray and various forms of zap guns all of which are banned for the general population . because once it starts it will end with your kitchen cutlery !
bill posters
Where is OC spray banned?
Britain
BillP
We already got that, a government that ignores the will of the people.
When these shootings happen quite often the shooter commits suicide either during the act of violence or immediately after. This makes me think that these people were
“programed”. Our government has been working on this since the 50’s ( MK ultra) yes it is real. Then one may ask why our government would do this to its own people? The answer is politicians, what is their biggest fear? An armed citizen that has the ability to say NO. An unarmed person is no longer a citizen he is property.
Left Coast
Read an article this morning, on Steve Quail’s site?
Can’t find it now.
Supposably, the El Paso shooter’s father worked in correlation to MKUltra.
Nope
I correct myself
Blacklisted news
“Connect the dots:
MKUltra and the El Paso shooting”
Look up the University of Hawaii’s study on democide. It is quite shocking and the common denominator is gun control. The founding fathers were very intelligent people and understood human nature better than any politician today.
very well said and OH SO TRUE
A few years from now.
Like Venezuela, America has fallen into violence, starvation, ignorance, ….
How? With everything going for us like energy, more food production than needed, fresh water, minerals, technology, …
What answers are left? Maybe only one – the inherent self-destruct nature of mankind.
When you remove the moral and ethical foundation of a society, all that’s left is the animal.
The Federalist has a good article today by Dana Loesch re red flag laws. They allow individuals to violate another’s constitutional rights under 2A, 1A, and 4A. Guv can just stand back and claim its hands are clean, even though it would have been legislative guv that enabled these violations and executive guv that will carry them out. Unless such legislation requires fast tracking judicial guv’s review, people will be disarmed and unable to protect themselves for a long time.
Guaranteed that predators, those with political agendas, and the just plain vindictive and evil will use these laws to make it vastly less risky to attack or rob others.
And if people think taking away guns will stop violence, just look across the pond to our English cousins. Pretty soon they’ll be reduced to implementing sharia law – cutting off people’s hands – to prevent crime.
And these laws do nothing to address underlying pathologies in the dangerously mentally ill. But now that the country moved to community-based mental health care in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there are not enough facilities for long-term institutionalization. Perhaps a closed base could be retrofitted as a secure environment for this purpose?
And when did not legally owning a firearm ever stop a crime? I bet not one of the 64 people shot so far this month in Chicago was shot with a registered firearm.
And given the current sloppy defining of words these days, this will certainly turn free speech on its head. Anyone expressing disgust with another, which is protected speech, can have that someone say they feel unsafe therefore threatened therefore the speaker must be disarmed.
Red flag laws that allow seizing possessions would cripple our republic.
It’s guv “buy back” which costs the guv no cash at all.
They going to buy it at purchase price?
Didnt think so
Don’t know if anyone has said it:
The most common factor is,
Political opponents/enemies.