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What is it about tyrannies and disarmament?
Rhetorical question, we know what it is.
It's so much easier to BE a tyranny when the populace can't do anything about it.
Oh, those "civilian" arms they're rounding up are the real deal, full auto type assault rifles not the neutered versions we're tenuously clinging to the right to own here.
Will many of those arms be hitting the secondary market soon?
ReplyDeleteIn the border area near Pakistan, yes. So if you can get over there to the open air arms markets, you are GTG.
DeleteAleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said about Soviet Russia and the midnight raids (IIRR)- If people would have met the KGB at the door with everything they had- instead of cowering and hoping the knock wasn't for them, there would have been no gulags.
ReplyDeleteIf the Taliban was met with hot lead every time they wanted to take someone's weapon, I'm sure they wouldn't be doing it long.
Personally, I think I would rather be shot to death than endure whatever a sadistic terrorist decided I would die from in their clutches.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
DeleteThe whole quote is entirely apt.