An excellent post I found on another site...

By Doktor Jeep

Keep in mind that all other land-dwelling creatures in the same scope as people (internal gestation, vertabrae, etc) have some sort of defense born into them.

From quils to claws, it's hard to find an example of a defensless animal. Even those lacking tough skin or weapons have some other defense, like keen senses or speed.


But people do not.

And humans are the only species that enslaves, slaughters, controls against the will, and commits genocide against itself.

Whether the aggressor is a 300 lb rapist attacking a 100 pound woman or a bloated tyrannical government sucking every last bit of life and production out of a subjugated mass, the outcome is expectedly the same.

Guns change that. It could be argued that swords and bows had some effect and they did in their times.

Those medieval castles that are still standing today for example. Back in the day they were whitewashed and kept bright to stand out on the land, and intimidate the people. The kings men rode horses that the average peasant family could not feed, and had weapons and armor only a state could aquire. The men themselves had a full time job of training to fight and were well fed. The starved peasant who toiled all day in the field could not stand a chance.

And what times it was: feudalism, starvation, slavery. With the wave of a scepter the king could have anyone hauled off and killed with no need to answer for it. If the king said it was OK to rape and steal, so be it. Taxation on peoples' wealth, not productivity, was the norm - even if they had no wealth to speak of.

And the king was the sovereign. All was unto him and for him alone, land and people.

Then comes the day when the peasant puts the plow aside, picks up a musket, and with one lead ball shoots the warhorse out from under the knight. And with the other punches a hole in his armor. Everything changed.

And change it did because the very ideal behind the Constitution and seen in the writings of the founders was that everybody is sovereign. Everybody owns their own land and controls their own lives, and determines the outcome of their labor with control of the direction.

But today the governments of the world now produce and deploy advanced weaponry that only a state could afford, and pass laws to ensure that nobody with the ability can obtain it. They issue guns with armor-piercing bullets to their minions and give them the best armor that can stop armor-penetrating projectiles. They ride in vehicles that consume so much fuel that few could pay for it alone, and train in special tactical schools using thousands of rounds of ammo plus their own pay and overhead costs, ensuring that they alone can have the upper hand over anyone they are sent against - especially those that cannot afford the schools and ammo and instead toil at their jobs day after day paying bills and taxes.

And how sovereign or free are we now? How are those taxes? How about the regulations for every little thing, prison for victimless crimes and regulatory fouls that center mainly around not paying for a fee here or a permit there?

Does it all look familiar? It's not a New World Order, it's the way things were before the gun.

But the armor is not foolproof, and the elites in control cannot garuntee the outcome YET. They can and will know security if they can disarm us. Sure they get as far as they do infringing on our rights, robbing us of wealth and substance because one AR is not going to stop one of their SWAT teams, but many with ARs can take out a few minions here and a few there until they run out of operators. They cannot garuntee the outcome so long as we are armed and they are in fear of it.

The same people who tax you, the same people who want to tell you how to live, the same people who already think you are either too evil to survive (religionists) or too stupid (socialists), and the same people who wield shallow jingoism and false patriotism and concoct wars to get us killing each other, happen to be the same people who want you to be disarmed.

Like the rapist and the tyrant, the outcome is predictable.

 

"Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not."
_ Thomas Jefferson


FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. "Free" men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights reserved.
11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the
others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911 _ government sponsored Dial_a_Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control __ it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the "gun control laws" we ALREADY have, don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
26. "A government of the people, by the people, for the people..."