Gun confiscation has always been the Holy Grail of totalitarian regimes. And though it is true that not every regime seeks to disarm every single citizen, they always disarm the people they specifically intend to hurt the most.
For example, gun control advocates today like to point out that the Third Reich in Germany did not disarm the entire German population. This is a rather bizarre position for leftists as they continually wail and scream about Nazis around every corner and behind every tree, but they will still defend their gun-grabbing policies by arguing that the Nazis were not as bad as conservatives assume. Of course, what they never mention is that the Nazis DID disarm millions of people; most of them Jewish under 1938 German gun laws.
The National Socialists disarmed the people they planned to destroy. It’s not hard to figure out why; they didn’t want their target to be able to fight back. They allowed their political supporter to keep their weapons legally; this is not a relaxation of gun laws, in fact, it’s the reverse — it is selective enforcement of gun confiscation based on ideological loyalty.
Hilariously, leftists in the U.S. when confronted with this fact double down on their gun control arguments instead of admitting their foolish error. They will say: “Yes, the Nazis disarmed the Jews and others, but having guns would have made no difference in saving their lives…” And there you have it — the most backward circular logic of all time. If Jews and others owning guns was not a deterrent to their slaughter, then why would the Nazis bother disarming them in the first place? Leftists have no answer to this question.
Not to mention they are trying to argue against facts using a hypothetical; how would they know? Maybe owning guns might have saved the lives of millions of people the Nazis had deemed enemies of the state? Maybe it would have acted as a deterrent to the Holocaust? Maybe the Nazis would have been afraid to expand tyranny into Europe if they had to worry about their own population fighting back? Maybe, WWII would have never happened? We could argue hypotheticals all day long…
What we do know for certain is that disarmament is always one of the first steps by totalitarians in cementing their control of a population, and this most common among the biggest political killers in modern history — no, it’s not the Nazis; it’s the communists.
While a debate rages over the exact number of deaths attributed to communist governments, it is estimated that they are responsible for approximately 65 million to 100 million murders over the course of the last century, a genocide beyond anything history has ever seen before. These deaths were caused by direct means, such as shooting dissidents, or indirect means, such as imprisoning dissidents until they died from complications or stealing food supplies from rural farming communities and allowing them to starve en masse.
Stalin, in particular, declared any theft of state property a crime punishable by death. He then also declared that all production including food production was state property. So, if you eat food that was not granted to you by the state, you are stealing and could therefore be shot. See how that works?
None of this would have been possible without gun control and confiscation laws put in place before the larger genocide was enacted. In 1918 the Bolsheviks and the Council of the People’s Commissar mandated that Russian citizens turn in their firearms under penalty of prosecution. Gun restrictions and penalties were increased over the years until WWII, when the Soviets were loath to arm their own population in response to Nazi invasion. In fact, the ease by which the Nazi army rolled through the Eastern front was partly due to the disarmament of the Russian population.
Communist governments only allow people to have firearms in their hands when they are fighting against the ideological and foreign foes of the regime. You are allowed to be cannon fodder for the elites, you are not allowed the means to defend yourself from those same elites.
Americans (primarily conservative Americans) have an in-depth understanding of this dynamic. While leftists are more concerned with rewriting history to their benefit, we are more concerned with learning from it. We know where gun control leads, and so did the Founding Fathers of our nation, which is why they codified gun ownership into the U.S. Constitution as an inalienable right under the 2nd Amendment. Here are the reasons why elitists, globalists and communists will never be able to disarm the American population as they have done in previous nations…
We know the history of gun control
As noted above, we have studied the history of tyrants. There is no tyranny that has ever existed that did not try to disarm the population or disarm the portion of the population the government intended to enslave or destroy. Leftists froth at the mouth trying to re-imagine history in a way that circumvents or ignores the tyranny issue when it comes to gun control. They are wasting their time.
They are never going to convince conservatives and moderates that gun confiscation was not a key step in the establishment of various tyrannies in modern history. All the mental gymnastics and manipulation, all the energy they spend trying to rationalize away genocide as somehow “inevitable” regardless of gun rights — it’s all for nothing. We are far smarter than they are. We are well versed in the legacy of gun control, and this makes their tactics useless.
We know all the tricks
The level of dishonesty involved in gun control advocacy is astonishing. Leftists use lies as a means to gain political capital; if they were completely honest about their intentions they would not receive much support from the general population for their efforts. Gun grabbers are very careful in most cases to use phrases like “common sense” when talking about new restrictions. They try to refrain from admitting what they really want is complete disarmament, at least, until recently.
Incrementalism was the name of the game, but the past year they are going for broke. Some leftist politicians are openly admitting their true goals because frankly the song and dance weren’t working, and they know conservatives aren’t going to allow any further encroachment on their rights. Kamala Harris, now vice president of the U.S., was one of the Democrats openly seeking mandatory government buybacks of firearms.
Joe Biden is famous for his statements admonishing military-grade weapons in civilian hands and telling people that a “double-barreled shotgun” is “superior” to the AR-15 for home defense. Obviously, a two-shot weapon with a limited effective range of around 50 yards or less makes it very difficult to fight back against government tyranny. And we all know that eventually even the shotguns would be taken away.
There is a reason why leftists and globalists are so obsessed with taking away combat-ready firearms from Americans, and it’s not about “saving lives.” These weapons act as a deterrent to full-blown tyranny. As long as they exist, our ability to take back our other rights and freedoms exist.
BLM race riots
Despite the false claims of the mainstream media, we have seen firsthand the destruction and insanity perpetrated by Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter. They are anything but “peaceful.” They are dangerous in their lack of intelligence and logic, and their social justice ideology is cancer that infects and debilitates every vital organ of Western civilization.
In his movie Platoon, Oliver Stone’s character Chris Taylor says: “Hell is the impossibility of reason.” If this doesn’t describe the social justice movement today then I don’t know what does. If a group of people is determined to make every single tragedy about racism and “white supremacy” despite all facts to the contrary, and then use those tragedies as an excuse for mass violence, then they are zealots, and zealots are dangerous. They are cultists with a mission, and they will do anything to accomplish that mission.
In this case, the mission of Marxists within BLM is to destroy the very fabric of America, burn it to the ground, and then rebuild it into an unrecognizable husk devoid of principles or freedom. Yeah, I don’t think conservative gun owners are going to go along with that. Burning down their own neighborhoods is one thing, but I have little doubt they will ultimately try to spread beyond the borders of their own garbage cities. And, when they do, we will be there to put an end to it.
The control agenda is out in the open
If anything has convinced gun owners of the need for firearms, it has been the past year of pandemic fear-mongering. What have we learned so far? Well, we are now fully aware of the “Great Reset” agenda, which has been promoted nonstop by the World Economic Forum and various political leaders. This agenda calls for years of economic lockdowns and medical mandates, forced vaccination, medical passports without which a person might be completely removed from the economy, a new cashless society, a shared economy in which you will “own nothing and like it.”
The medical or vaccine “passports” are particularly disconcerting. For one, governments don’t necessarily have to enforce them right away. Rather, they can simply allow their corporate partners to demand said passports from anyone that wants to get a job or buy a shop in their stores. Once this system is ingrained into the consumer world, governments can then step in and make them a legal requirement. Eventually, the passports give the establishment the ability to control and micro-manage every aspect of every individual life. Without compliance to every whim, the technocrats can simply void your passport, and then you die from poverty and starvation.
This would be impossible to do in a country where a majority of the population is armed. I think it’s safe to say most Americans do not want to live in the dystopian world that the globalists at the WEF envision, and we will fight to ensure it does not happen.
Tyranny is enforced by armed men on the ground
My favorite mantra of gun grabbers is the claim that “Your AR-15 isn’t going to help you against an Abrams tank or a predator drone.” These people don’t understand how totalitarian systems function. In order to control a population, you have to have loyal troops on the ground… everywhere. Not only that, but you also need loyal civilians, a large percentage of the population, to act as your eyes and ears and sometimes brute force. And finally, you need anyone who might oppose you to be afraid to take action to defend themselves. You need them docile and passive.
There are a lot of moving parts to tyranny, and tanks and planes are secondary to basic manpower. And where there are troops and others enforcing tyranny, there are numerous targets. Where there are firearms, there is a means to eliminate a tyrant at the top of the pyramid with a single well-placed bullet. Furthermore, you don’t need armored vehicles and stealth jets to fight tyranny; what you need is a good firearm to remove the people driving and flying those machines. You might even take those weapons for your own arsenal.
A lot of gun owners are also military veterans, and they have seen how things played out in places like Afghanistan, where all the military might in the world was ineffective against tribesman with old AK-47s and roadside IEDs. It’s about the force of will, and a minimal ability to attack when necessary. Guerrilla wars are not fought in terms of battles, they are fought in terms of attrition. Americans understand this better than most.
For all these reasons and more, the gun grabber ethos is essentially pointless. They can have total dominance in the federal government, they could have every state government on their side and pass hundreds of laws and executive orders making every gun owner a criminal, and it still would not matter. We will not budge; we would rather fight.
Elitists and leftists just don’t seem to get it. Maybe it’s the way their brains work. Maybe they just can’t comprehend the idea that some people will not compromise certain freedoms no matter the cost. They think everyone has a limit; that everyone has a price. They think anyone can be bought, or that anyone can be leveraged into submission. The truth is some of can’t. Some of us have no price, and we cannot be compelled to comply.
We are the people that keep freedom alive, and totalitarians are terrified of us; gun-grabbing is merely a natural extension of their fear and doubt. Wherever a government is seeking to disarm the population, this is a sure sign they are afraid that the population might take away their power.
Written by Brandon Smith
