How I became a gunner.
I'm slowly accumulating people's stories and I am still amazed at how many of us start as flaming-liberals; but end up being gun owner and reject modern liberalism.
We remain liberal, but in the Jeffersonian sense.
That's shellbacked conservatism nowadays.
Like many people I am constantly amazed at how so many folks ignore history.
It's because of history I look askance at any political movement or party which seeks to restrict gun ownership and takes an even remotely anti-Semitic stance.
While the Holocaust mostly murdered Jews, it also murdered millions of others too.
The Soviet Union and China murdered in wholesale lots as well.
Communism, Fascism and Marxism are all just Socialism of different flavors. Being a student of history also makes me reject anarchists claiming to be libertarians because anarchist was a label of one of the flavors of Socialism back before WW1.
Gun control doesn't cause holocausts and mass murder by the state. It enables it.
Without gun control the state cannot exert the requisite control over the citizenry needed to round them all up and kill them.
Antisemitism is kind of a canary in the coal mine for a coming totalitarian movement. I can't think of a single Socialist take-over that didn't include it.
Fighting it while it's still nascent and mostly theoretical is a dreary slog and tiring.
I only just realized I've been fighting it, with varying degrees of success, for half my life.
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My transition was rather abrupt. Flaming liberal, even liked Carter, until I got my first paycheck and saw how much FedGov sucked out. Reality shift occurred...
ReplyDeleteAnd the resurgence of Socialism is a very scary thing indeed.
I'm glad you mentioned the Holocaust. Growing up in the '60s I had friends whose grandparents had numbers tattooed on their wrists, not a lot, but there were a couple. Going to a Catholic school the teachers drilled into us the REAL number of people killed during the Holocaust-11million. 6 million Jews, 5 million "others". Who were supposed to be mostly Catholic. I can't remember a time when I didn't want guns and other weapons.
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