Guns aren't the problem; freedom is!

Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 6 months ago to News
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I wish that we had armed, sane people everywhere
I went, to keep me safe. . don't you? . I was in line at WalMart
yesterday behind a man with a gun on his hip, and I thanked him. -- j
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  • Posted by Texaswildfire 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These examples of history are also great examples of "insanity".
    Insanity ........ Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result !
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 6 months ago
    "The idea that more government control over the private lives of individuals will eventually prevent atrocities from being committed is an incredibly dangerous philosophy."

    Speaking of atrocities, what/who has been the perpetrator of the largest, most heinous atrocities in human history?
    Large centrally controlled governments where firearms had been banned by those governments, or large governments who enslaved their citizens and sent them to war against other large governments and their enslaved citizens:
    None of the blame goes to common people or to their firearms. All of the blame goes to centralized power in the hands of a small number of power seeking looters in their never ending effort to take power and wealth without earning it.
    http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox...

    "History offers other examples of what can happen when citizens are stripped of the means to defend themselves.

    - The Turkish Ottoman Empire established gun control in 1911. It then proceeded to exterminate 1 and a half million Armenians from 1914 to 1917.
    - The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. Subsequently, from 1928 to 1953, 60 million dissidents were imprisoned and then exterminated.
    - China enacted gun control laws in 1935. After the communist takeover, from 1948 to 1952, 20 million Chinese, unable to defend themselves, were murdered.
    - Nazi Germany fully established gun control in 1938. That helped the government to round up 13 million defenseless Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill and impaired human beings. Many were imprisoned in concentration camps, then destroyed.
    - Guatemala passed gun control laws in 1964. Then, from 1964 to 1981, 100,000 defenseless Mayan Indians were exterminated.
    - Uganda established gun control measures in 1970. Predictably, from 1971 to 1979, 300,000 defenseless Christians met a similar fate.
    - Cambodia established gun control measures in 1956. Subsequently, from 1957 to 1977, 1 million Cambodians met their deaths."

    http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41225/
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