“Gun Control Makes A Dictator's Job So Much Easier”
By: Don_Anonimo
In the last ten or twenty years we have witnessed the destruction of the 2nd Amendment; the right to bear arms. Through congress with the bills like the Veterans Disarment Act (H.R. 2640) which prohibit any veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and any person that was diagnosed with ADHD from owning a firearm (Pratt and Bob Unruh). Another gun banning bill by Rep. Carolyn Mcarthy, also known as the “queen of gun control”, was the “Assault Weapons Ban And Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007 (H.R. 1022). This bill would “reinstate all of the now-defunct provisions pertaining to semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity magazines.”, ban conversion kits, ban the private transfers of assault weapons and the manufacture and/or importation of many firearms would be prohibited as well (H.R.1022). This bill has yet to be passed in the house, and its most recent status, according to GunLawNews.org, was being referred to the subcommittee of crime,Terrorism and Homeland Security and March 19, 2007.
Not only has the right to own guns been slowly destroyed through congress, police and the military have also started to take away our right to bear arms. Shortly after Katrina police confiscated the weapons of law-abiding citizens in New Orleans in areas that weren't even affected by the Hurricane, even in New Orleans driest and wealthiest neighborhoods. They went from door to door taking away each citizen's guns, and if they denied they would still barge in the house to search for them (thank the Patriot Act). They were told not to use force, instead they were told to use “strong persuasion”, sometimes going into houses with “guns drawn” (ABC World News). What a play on words right? Some citizens even ended up handcuffed and treated like criminals just because they wanted to keep their rights, in this case the right to bear arms. Patie Konie was a victim of gun confiscation who suffered police brutality in her own home. Police asked her to leave the home but she insisted saying she had enough food and supplies. Whilst this feud ensued she was holding a small unloaded handgun which she showed to the police, at this moment they pushed her to the wall, took her down and punched her in the face. After the incident Konie recalls she “really thought they were going to kill me.”
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Not only has the United States started gun bans, Britain has also been a victim this. On March 16, 1996, Thomas Watt Hamilton entered a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and killed 16 schoolchildren and a teacher. The people of United Kingdom, for the most part, demanded something had to be done to stop such horrific events. So, the government passed highly restrictive gun laws which was then followed by a ban on handguns, shotguns and most rifles (Connell). The ban destroyed the right of self-defense and to keep and bear arms. Just because one licensed gun owner was psychotic that doesn't mean all licensed gun owners are psychotic, and if law abiding people of the UK were allowed to carry guns then in the killing he would have been shot by a member of the public, therefore he wouldn't have been able to kill as many people, but the government and media have a way with words and they clouded rationality with emotions doing a very good job. The people remained silent and accepted this ban in hopes of preventing future incidents like the one on March 16. Regardless, now the people of Britain regret their decision vehemently and have organize large protests in the streets fighting for their rights back, fighting for a freedom they have already lost. Albie Fox,the director of Sportsman's Association, speaks that the “main thing that is being destroyed right now in the U.K. is democracy”, Len Martin, a gun collector, states “my family fought for this country, for his rights and my rights, and they did it for nothing. Because what we've got now, and were headed, we're very close to a dictatorship.” The people did not fight for their rights when they had to and instead fell for the false promise of protection, they only have themselves to blame; “we did not stand up and fight at all”, “...the good man, we sat home all 60,000 of us and we were silent, a very bad mistake.”, recalls Norman Murray.
Even though guns have been banned, crime has increased dramatically. Gill Marshall-Andrews, the Chairperson of gun control network, says that “it becomes quite clear that if you want a safer society with lower gun violence then you got to reduce your gun ownership.” But this couldn't be more far from the truth, two years after the 1997 handgun ban, the use of hand guns rose by 40 percent and from April to November 2001, the “number of people robbed at gun point in London rose 53 percent” (Lee Malcolm). In 2003 the BBC reported that “Gun crime has risen by 35% in a year, new Home Office Figures show. There were 9,974 incidents involving firearms in the 12 months to April 2002 – a rise from 7,362 over the previous year.” Joyce Lee Malcolm of Reason.com reports that “Your chances of being mugged in London are now six times greater than in New York. England's rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are far higher than America's, and 53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., where burglars admit to fearing armed homeowners more than the police.” Bloomberg reported in 2005:
“Violent crime in the U.K. rose 6 percent in the three months through September, led by an increase in alcohol-fueled offenses and gun crime, police figures show. Violence against the person, excluding sexual offences [sic], rose 7 percent from the year-earlier period, U.K. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said, citing police statistics, while firearms offences [sic] increased 5 percent in the year through September, to 10,670 incidents. Total crime across the U.K. fell 6 percent from the year-earlier period, the figures show. “Violent crime remains our biggest challenge,” said Clarke at a London press conference, his first on crime figures since he took over from David Blunkett in December. “It’s a difficult task, but we are going in the right direction. It will be my number one priority to drive down violent crime.” (Connell)
John Manner, a retired police officer, talks on the gun ban being beneficial, “I don't think people believe that anyways, common sense dictates that no, they're not going to be any safer.” Rem member that while the law-abiding citizens don't have their guns, criminals will always have their guns. They can easily get guns through the black market, and are encouraged to increase their violence since the risk of doing so has been drastically lowered. Gun control only places the people at the mercy of criminals and their government. Since police and the authorities still keep their guns and the people don't have guns it ultimately creates a police state.
Australia has also been a victim of gun bans. In only two weeks they banned all semi-automatic firearms and pump action shot guns. Gun owners in Australia were forced by new laws to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be seized and destroyed by their own government. It was in essence the same scenario as Britain. And like Britain, they only have themselves to blame, Stan Tetis, a gun shop owner says “our biggest enemy has been ourselves and apathy.”
Like Britain, crime and gun crime has increased, only two years after the ban armed robberies increased by 73 percent; unarmed robberies by 28 percent; kidnappings by 38 percent; assaults by 17 percent; manslaughter by 29 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (A. Faria). The "trend in assaults shows an average growth of 5% each year between 1995 and 2006. This is four time the annual growth of the Australian population over the same period." (Australian Crime: Facts And Figures Of 2008). Gary Fleetwood, Chief Inspector of Police, RET., speaks that the “crime rate is not to drop the use of firearms by criminals will still be there, and they will still obtain their firearms on the black market, and the black market is burning in Australia at the moment.”
History has proven that almost every time -if not every time- that gun control is declared in a country it is followed by a dictatorship and the mass killings of defenseless dissidents.
-In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
-In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
-Guatemala established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.
-China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.
-Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977,one million educated people,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th century because of gun control: 56 million and thats only for the people we have records for. (D. La Rosa and Alan L. Lund)
We are getting closer and closer each day to a police state, not just in our country but in the entire world. Our rights, not just constitutional rights, but our rights as human beings are being slowly chipped away while the masses remain blinded and conditioned. We cannot let these governments control our lives, if we let these bankers, governments and corrupt groups do their way we will end up in a slave world, a prison planet. Therefore we must fight to keep our guns, if we dont what will you do when they come at your door to drag you away to a detainment camp? What will you do when they start killing us for being dissidents? There is no way the people can fight back against the government if they don't have firearms. We'll end up like the unarmed citizens of the past, killed, oppressed and enslaved. A defenseless population is nothing but slaves, gun control is nothing but despotism.
Works Cited
A. Faria Miguel, Jr., MD. “Gun Control- Chaos Down Under”.<www.haciendapub.com/comm8.html>
Australian crime : facts and figures 2007.
D. La Rosa, Benedict. “Can Gun Control Reduce Crime?”.<www.fff.org/freedom/fd0211f.asp>
H.R.1022 - Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007, <www.gunlawnews.org/110th-House-Bills/hr1022-3.html>
Lee Malcolm, Joyce. “Gun Control's Twisted Outcome: Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.”.<http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html>
L. Lund, Alan. “Gun Control Really Does Work!”.<www.kc3.com/editorial/gun_control_works.html>
Pratt, Larry. “Veterans Disarment Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns".
Connel, Shaun. “UK Gun Ban”.<http://rebirthoffreedom.org/freedom/guns/uk-gun-ban/>
Unruh, Bob. “Ex-Military To Be Denied Gun Ownership”.<www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57847>
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