A Diabolic Gun Control Strategy
April 19 marks the 248th anniversary of the day on which 700 agents of the lawfully constituted government of Massachusetts approached the town of Lexington intent on seizing the guns of the area’s farmers. Eight farmers were gunned down on Lexington Green, after which the uniformed gun confiscators “came under attack by thousands of swarming” farmers organized as “the Minutemen,” a citizen militia armed with the same weapons as the government’s forces. On the day of “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” in Massachusetts, these United States were founded.
The battle of Lexington and Concord which marked the start of the civil war known as the American Revolution, is too often presented in books and lectures as between “foreign troops” and “Americans.” In order to disguise what was a police action by the royal governor acting on the order of the Commander in Chief (King George), the event is presented in terms of “foreign troops” invading New England, the equivalent in our day of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army landing in Seattle and disarming the local citizens.
By framing Lexington and Concord as Americans vs. aliens, the role of the loyalist American government is overlooked, as is the fact that this was a police action by troops charged with enforcing the law of the land, who spoke the same language and were in some cases cousins of the English-Americans they killed.
Beginning the previous autumn, the local governors of New England began to enforce the king’s October 19 order for the seizure of the people’s guns and ammunition (Cf. Boston Gazette, December 12, 1774). One patriot remarked, “the Decree” that “prohibited having arms and ammunition” was a violation of “the law of self-preservation” and the right to “defend the liberties which God and nature have given us.” (New Hampshire Gazette, January 13, 1775).
My siblings and I have joked for decades that if they REALLY wanted gun control, all firearms would be kept legal, but ammunition would be exorbitantly expensive or prohibited entirely without a permit.
Having watched the rising price of ammunition over the last few years, we're not laughing about it anymore.
People say, "well, make your own".
Making your own isn't the problem. The problem is making enough.
Without ammunition, a rifle is just an expensive club (or spear, cuz bayonet), and a pistol is just a funny shaped rock.
It's about means of production - and I'm not talking Marxism here. The last thing the government should be involved in is manufacturing anything (other than their own product for their own use).
The entire gun control enforcement scheme is based on the perversion of the Commerce Clause. Clarence Thomas said we need to revisit the Commerce Clause to clip its wings. Well, I'm waiting.....
I'm thinking chainsaw.
Well, those are my words..... Thomas said something like those words. I think I remember him saying it needs to be "reined in".
Part of the so-called "gun problem" isn't even a problem with guns. It's a problem with people. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I was taught to use, AND respect, a gun for what it is. A powerful tool. There was no 'fetishism' involved. Owning one didn't make you a 'real man' - though a real man should know how to use one. It also wasn't "cool" be seen as a thug with a gun. Sure, as kids we played make believe. The cowboys tried to shoot the Indians, GI Joe fought the bad guy. But the gun didn't make the character, it was just a roleplay accessory.
I blame the left almost exclusively for the deterioration of society that has led to the current state of things. A culture of 'gibs', of taking what you want that isn't rightfully yours, of giving lip service to doing good or helping your fellow man or your country, but having the attitude of being selfish and all in it for yourself.
The love of oneself ends when you stop caring about other people. Then it's narcissism.
In truth, they want gun control to make it easier to take what is not rightfully theirs, without violent opposition. It must not be allowed to happen.