If there is just one lesson we are to learn from history, it is that an armed people are a free people, and that tyrants begin their rule by disarming their subjects. Gun control is the first step from citizenry to slavery. This is the unavoidable lesson of history.
Adolf Hitler disarmed the Jews. The communists disarmed the capitalists. The Redcoats tried to disarm the Americans. The Mexicans tried to disarm the Texans before the Alamo. The Persians tried to disarm the Spartans.
In each scenario, there were only two outcomes: the people resisted and stayed free, or the people turned in their arms and became slaves. This is not debatable or negotiable. This is historical fact. Disarmed people are just peasants.
Imagine what the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising would have done for the ability to have simply been well armed with rifles and handguns. Instead, they were forced to fight with a handful of guns and homemade weapons. Since the Jews were systematically disarmed in 1938, they were essentially powerless.
Around the same time as this disarmament, Hitler loosened gun laws for “Aryan” Germans. It’s not the guns that were the problem… it was who owned them. That’s why anyone who says “only police and military should own guns” is essentially ignoring history. If you want anyone to become a slave, just take away his ability to fight back or stop you — instant slavery.
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Originally Posted by Adolf Hitler
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.”
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This story repeats throughout history over and over. Tyranny requires the victims to be disarmed. Not necessarily everyone — just the victims. That’s why the Jews in Germany, the slaves in the Old South, and essentially all citizens in communist countries were disarmed. They were no longer free.