Maybe some history in pictures will help them to understand.
Posted on 01/12/2013 12:37:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Listen closely.
That sound you hear is the sound of a cultural paranoia by people who have lost their grip on the reins of power, and on reality, and who fear the worst is coming.
And they are preparing for it, whatever it may be — a war, a revolution, an apocalypse.
These extremists make sensible, reasonable gun control hard to discuss, let alone achieve in this country, because they skew the conversations away from common-sense solutions on which both rational gun owners and non-gun owners can agree.
These people, a vocal minority, have extreme fears — gun confiscation, widespread civil instability, a tyrannical government — from which they are preparing to defend themselves with arsenals of weapons and stockpiles of ammunition.
If you pay attention to the right-wing’s rhetoric, you can hear a string of code words that feed the fears of these people and paralyze progress.
A collection of conservative groups have declared Jan. 19, during the weekend celebrating President Obama’s inauguration and Martin Luther King’s Birthday, as Gun Appreciation Day....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Perhaps Blow should have called it "counter-revolutionary" language. Or even common sense, patriotic, pro American.
Sorry Blow, when the "system" that Obama and his minions have worked so hard to destroy actually fails, you are not going to be happy.
“These people, a vocal minority, have extreme fears — gun confiscation, widespread civil instability, a tyrannical government — from which they are preparing to defend themselves with arsenals of weapons and stockpiles of ammunition.”
Finally, something correct printed in the NY Slimes. Incomplete, though. We also have food, water, fuel, medical supplies, and like-minded friends and neighbors.
Maybe some history in pictures will help them to understand.
Blow doesn’t get it. Revolutionary language is coming from the fact we live in revolutionary times. We are two nations, and ever more people on the right side of the political spectrum are finally starting to admit it to themselves. People on the left will begin waking up to the new reality eventually. It is not losing one’s grip on reality to admit you would prefer to live in a nation without leftists and without intrusive, overbearing, kleptocratic government. Open psychological separation is merely the beginning of much deeper change. The grasping Left can engage in all the ad hominem they want; we aren’t listening anymore. Eventually they will be forced to fend for themselves, and we know how that will work out. They know it, too. That is what drives their desperate narrative.
Blow’s baloney is a “dog whistle” for Communists and their black slave lackeys everywhere in America...
From the comments: “People who are fearful and paranoid are the exact people I do not want to have firearms. I want potential gun owners to be asked, “Why do you want a gun.?” If the answer is, “To protect my family,” the next question should be, “From whom?” “Why do you think you need an assault weapon?” Please provide five specific reasons.
If the person cannot provide sane, reasoned, rational answers they cannot get a gun. If not, they will receive a piece of paper telling them where to enlist in the military or how to become a police officer, These are the people who have legitimate reason to carry lethal weapons.”
OMG...the ignorance is astounding. Who gets to ‘interpret’ the answers? If the person can’t articulate acceptable answers they are directed to join the military or law enforcement?
Really? This is exactly why we dare not let the libtards win.
In the Army, your personal weapon and ammunition is generally kept in a secure arms room and is available to you only as allowed by those in authority above you. I’m sure the other four services run things in a similar fashion unless one is in an actual war zone.
He’s wrong. It has nothing to do with “revolution”, it has everything to do with “restoration” and “preservation”.
Restoring our Constitution and Preserving everything that made this Country great to begin with.
Do not stand in our way or you will bleed for it.
There is a good reason why the Minute Man is a national symbol.
The 2nd Amendment should be known as the Minute Man Amendment. It is a great irony that one of the most liberal states , Vermont, has in its constitution that ever able-bodied man has a duty to bear arms.
See how that works? And we're the crazy ones, huh?
Liberals will write all the rules.
And only their interpretation of responses to their rules is legitimate.
Failure to meet their rules, and their own capricious interpretation will result in recrimination!
But yeah, we have ABSOLUTELY nothing to fear by having Blow and his comrades take our guns - nothing at all.
Oh, my gosh, he unknowingly just made the very point about the true wisdom of the 2nd Amendment!
If my neighbor is not in his right mind, and is always playing with matches and causing fires, why is it so amazing that i begin to keep a fire extinguisher and a garden hose handy?
We’re in a Revolution right now. Our Country is being taken over from within by Socialists bent on destroying everything.
Our fight will be to restore what is being lost and to put safeguards in place to keep it from happening again...
The spirit lives on . . . Fear it
“the sound of a cultural paranoia by people who have lost their grip on the reins of power, and on reality, and who fear the worst is coming” Gee . . . so much to say.
This guy’s delusional. When did we ever have the so-called “reins of power?” Our last chance to have a fair shacke was the summer of 1863. From there it started going downhill fast.
Oldplayer
Excellent post !
If they come to take away your guns by force, they have declared war on the Constitution, and on you. At that point, war is joined, just as it was during another famous gun confiscation raid on April 19, 1775.
If a firearm was legal in 2012, under the 2nd Amendment it’s still legal in 2013 and it will be legal forever, no matter what so-called "executive orders" are handed down or new "laws" are passed by a panicking Congress. Those who say otherwise are liars and traitors and oath breakers and domestic enemies.
Every survivor of every genocide says the same thing: when they come to take your guns, shoot them! Make them take them, and their system of repression will be overwhelmed, because they don’t have millions of jack-booted thugs ready to do armed battles all over the country.
If you give up your arms, you are placing your entire trust in the permanent future benevolence of the U.S. government. This trust is invariably fatal: ask the American Indians about those treaties that were guaranteed forever.
History is clear, with numerous examples, of the danger of gun registration and gun control. The German gun registration laws were enacted duuring the 1920s Weimar Republic, years before Hitler came to power. German gun registration was mandated in the name of "public safety." Note that phrase well. I’m sure today's liberal utopians would agree that they were "common sense" and "reasonable" gun control laws. Don't we all want "public safety?"
Then Hitler rose to power, and used the gun registration lists to first disarm the Jews, and then to force them into starving, overcrowded ghettos, and finally into mass graves and gas chambers. The Nazi genocide of the Jews was enabled by those "common sense" German gun registration lists.
Millions of Polish Jews were rounded up by German military police battallions. The German military police only needed a 1-10 ratio to their victims. A mere 100 German military police, (4-Fs in their forties, bottom of the barrel conscripts, not rabid SS), would round up and murder a town of a thousand Jews over the course of one day.
The Germans would force them to sit tightly packed together on town plazas or sporting fields under the watch of only a handful of armed guards. The Germans would then march groups of twenty or thirty at a time at gunpoint into the woods for point-blank executions. A 1-10 ratio means the military police were not worried at all about meeting resistance. The victims were all previously disarmed.
During the Armenian Genocide from 1915-23, two million Christian Turks were exterminated by being marched at gun point into burning deserts with no food or water. The Turkish gun registration laws were enacted in 1911, in the name of "public safety." The genocide began a few years later, after the Armenians' firearms were confiscated.
Entire divisions of Russian troops hiked home from WW1 in 1917/18, carrying their rifles and swords and other sidearms. Very early on, Lenin decreed that "public safety" required they all be turned in, under penalty of death. And so the Russian war veterans were disarmed—but not the Communist Party members. Then came the Soviet purges, the Great Terror, the Gulags, and tens of millions of disarmed Russians were murdered.
I’m sorry, but I do NOT trust that our federal government won’t turn as brutally tyrannical as the old USSR at some point in the future, perhaps after an economic crash or other major crisis. The Obama regime already perceives that we "Bitter Clingers" are "reactionaries" who are not only standing in the way of social progress, we are actively blocking it.
That makes us pure Evil, since their plan for a socialist utopia is pure Good. And that means they will ultimately come to feel totally justified in seeking a "final solution to the Bitter Clinger problem," in the same way that the Turks, Soviets and Nazis did. Can anyone guarantee Americans that tyranny will never visit our shores?
If the socialists in power are scapegoating us as national villains now, what will they do when they have no reason to fear us whatsoever? Did the Turks, Soviets or Nazis treat their despised minorities better, or worse, after disarming them? Think!
And once a despot’s enemies (that’s us) are disarmed and helpless...the temptation grows to simply do away with them. Obama mentor and ghost-autobiographer, the Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers, stated that they would need to murder ten percent of the American population to achieve their socialist nirvana. Thirty million bitter clingers. Guess who that is?
Don't relearn this bitter lesson the hard way. Learn from history's many examples. As it was for the Turkish Armenians, German Jews, Russian Kulaks, Chinese, Ugandans, Guatemalens, Cambodians, Cubans, Rwandans, and on and on, history’s lesson is crystal clear:
~~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If they come to take away your guns by force, they have declared war on the Constitution, and on you. At that point, war is joined, just as it was during another famous gun confiscation raid on April 19, 1775.
If a firearm was legal in 2012, under the 2nd Amendment it’s still legal in 2013 and it will be legal forever, no matter what so-called "executive orders" are handed down or new "laws" are passed by a panicking Congress. Those who say otherwise are liars and traitors and oath breakers and domestic enemies.
Every survivor of every genocide says the same thing: when they come to take your guns, shoot them! Make them take them, and their system of repression will be overwhelmed, because they don’t have millions of jack-booted thugs ready to do armed battles all over the country.
If you give up your arms, you are placing your entire trust in the permanent future benevolence of the U.S. government. This trust is invariably fatal: ask the American Indians about those treaties that were guaranteed forever.
History is clear, with numerous examples, of the danger of gun registration and gun control. The German gun registration laws were enacted duuring the 1920s Weimar Republic, years before Hitler came to power. German gun registration was mandated in the name of "public safety." Note that phrase well. I’m sure today's liberal utopians would agree that they were "common sense" and "reasonable" gun control laws. Don't we all want "public safety?"
Then Hitler rose to power, and used the gun registration lists to first disarm the Jews, and then to force them into starving, overcrowded ghettos, and finally into mass graves and gas chambers. The Nazi genocide of the Jews was enabled by those "common sense" German gun registration lists.
Millions of Polish Jews were rounded up by German military police battallions. The German military police only needed a 1-10 ratio to their victims. A mere 100 German military police, (4-Fs in their forties, bottom of the barrel conscripts, not rabid SS), would round up and murder a town of a thousand Jews over the course of one day.
The Germans would force them to sit tightly packed together on town plazas or sporting fields under the watch of only a handful of armed guards. The Germans would then march groups of twenty or thirty at a time at gunpoint into the woods for point-blank executions. A 1-10 ratio means the military police were not worried at all about meeting resistance. The victims were all previously disarmed.
During the Armenian Genocide from 1915-23, two million Christian Turks were exterminated by being marched at gun point into burning deserts with no food or water. The Turkish gun registration laws were enacted in 1911, in the name of "public safety." The genocide began a few years later, after the Armenians' firearms were confiscated.
Entire divisions of Russian troops hiked home from WW1 in 1917/18, carrying their rifles and swords and other sidearms. Very early on, Lenin decreed that "public safety" required they all be turned in, under penalty of death. And so the Russian war veterans were disarmed—but not the Communist Party members. Then came the Soviet purges, the Great Terror, the Gulags, and tens of millions of disarmed Russians were murdered.
I’m sorry, but I do NOT trust that our federal government won’t turn as brutally tyrannical as the old USSR at some point in the future, perhaps after an economic crash or other major crisis. The Obama regime already perceives that we "Bitter Clingers" are "reactionaries" who are not only standing in the way of social progress, we are actively blocking it.
That makes us pure Evil, since their plan for a socialist utopia is pure Good. And that means they will ultimately come to feel totally justified in seeking a "final solution to the Bitter Clinger problem," in the same way that the Turks, Soviets and Nazis did. Can anyone guarantee Americans that tyranny will never visit our shores?
If the socialists in power are scapegoating us as national villains now, what will they do when they have no reason to fear us whatsoever? Did the Turks, Soviets or Nazis treat their despised minorities better, or worse, after disarming them? Think!
And once a despot’s enemies (that’s us) are disarmed and helpless...the temptation grows to simply do away with them. Obama mentor and ghost-autobiographer, the Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers, stated that they would need to murder ten percent of the American population to achieve their socialist nirvana. Thirty million bitter clingers. Guess who that is?
Don't relearn this bitter lesson the hard way. Learn from history's many examples. As it was for the Turkish Armenians, German Jews, Russian Kulaks, Chinese, Ugandans, Guatemalens, Cambodians, Cubans, Rwandans, and on and on, history’s lesson is crystal clear:
~~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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