Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Gun Control and Oppression



   In the United States gun control is an issue subject to rigorous debate. My stance is that the writers of the bill of rights recognized that the right to bear arms is the people last defense against oppression. History has shown that the tyrants who plagued the 21st century all instituted strict gun control policies often followed by mass murder. Many modern nations today that have experimented with gun control have experienced an increased murder rate. Gun control prevents good people from defending them against people who mean to harm them and more importantly out of control governments. In the following paragraphs I will go into detail about how gun control is the precursor to oppression.

   The Nazi party instituted gun control in 1938, excluding party members. This paved the path to the systematic extermination of 13 million Jews and other “undersirables”.  Imagine the difficulty the Nazis would have faced if the oppressed population were armed. If the German people recognized this vital step toward oppression they would have noticed this key event.

   The Soviet Union established gun control in 1938 resulting in the murder of 20 million political dissidents and the complete oppression of the Russian workers, the very people in which the communism is supposed to protect. The vicious party controlled people through starvation, which they would remain subject to due to the lack of weapons for self defense.

   In 1935 Mao Tse Tung established gun control resulting in 20 million murdered dissidents. In 1911 Turkey outlawed private guns resulting in 1.5 million Armenian deaths. Guatemala embraced gun control in 1964 resulting in 100,000 murdered Mayan Indians. In 1970 Uganda murdered 300,000 Christians after establishing gun control. And now the President of the United States advocates gun control. We cannot allow our defenses to be taken by oppressive government and fall victim to the same fate as 56 million other murdered people in the 21st century.

   The right to bear arms is one of our most important rights, it is not a privilege and if it is treated as such we will become just another group of slaves under an oppressive dictator. Statistics show that gun control not only does not reduce crime but sharply increases it. Gun control does not make people safer because criminals will still acquire what they want regardless of legality so why disarm the innocent? The United States is the only country in the world with more guns than people. With a national population of approximately 304,000,000,If all these people were armed it would be a dictators worst nightmare so natural any oppressive force would want weapon ownership kept to the very minimum and that’s just what might happen if you allow government to over intrude on your rights.

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