01-20-2018, 08:01 PM
Oh, mass possession of firearms is the definitive measure of freedom?
There was more freedom to own a firearm in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union than there was in Britain under Thatcher. Germany today has practically no right to bear arms -- but Nazi Germany was awash in privately-owned guns.
Some Nazi was once cited as saying "When I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver".
Revolutionaries who eventually become the essence of subsequent authoritarian regimes typically stockpile firearms for themselves.
There was more freedom to own a firearm in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union than there was in Britain under Thatcher. Germany today has practically no right to bear arms -- but Nazi Germany was awash in privately-owned guns.
Some Nazi was once cited as saying "When I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver".
Revolutionaries who eventually become the essence of subsequent authoritarian regimes typically stockpile firearms for themselves.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.