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Gun Control: Protecting Terrorists and Despots
Ron Paul
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Dec 09, 2008
Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the world was reminded
how evil and cruel people can be. According to emerging accounts
of the events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly
well-trained terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing
almost two hundred people, and terrorizing thousands.
Regardless of the reasons, the indiscriminate shooting on masses
of unarmed and defenseless people is chilling and reprehensible.
How were these terrorists able to continue so long, relatively
unchallenged, killing so many?
India’s gun laws are her business, of course. However,
once the shock of these events and the initial reaction of fear
passes, Americans should take away a valuable lesson about real
homeland security and gun control from this tragedy.
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Gun control advocates tell us that removing guns from society
makes us safer. If that were the case why do the worst shootings
happen in gun free zones, like schools? And while accidents do
happen, aggressive, terroristic shootings like this are unheard
of at gun and knife shows, or military bases. It bears repeating
that an armed society truly is a polite society.
The fact is that firearm technology exists. It cannot be uninvented.
As long as there is metalworking and welding capability, it matters
not what gun laws are imposed upon law-abiding people. Those that
wish to have guns, and disregard the law, will have guns. Gun
control makes violence safer and more effective for the aggressive,
whether the aggressor is a terrorist or a government.
History shows us that another tragedy of gun laws is genocide.
Hitler, for example, knew well that in order to enact his “final
solution,” disarmament was a necessary precursor. While
it is not always the case that an unarmed populace WILL be killed
by their government, if a government is going to kill its own
people, it MUST disarm them first so they cannot fight back. Disarmament
must happen at a time when overall trust in government is high,
and under the guise of safety for the people, or perhaps the children.
Knowing that any government, no matter how idealistically started,
can become despotic, the Founding Fathers enabled the future freedom
of Americans by enacting the second amendment.
In our own country, we should be ever vigilant against any attempts
to disarm the people, especially in this economic downturn. I
expect violent crime to rise sharply in the coming days, and as
states and municipalities are even more financially strained,
the police will be even less able or willing to respond to crime.
In many areas, local police could become more and more absorbed
with revenue generating activities, like minor traffic violations
and the asset forfeiture opportunities of non-violent drug offenses.
Your safety has always, ultimately been your own responsibility,
but never more so than now. People have a natural right to defend
themselves. Governments that take that away from their people
should be highly suspect.
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