Totalitarians Everywhere Throughout History Enact Control Over Weapons: The Taliban Come For The Guns
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 4 months ago
Taliban fighters on Monday reportedly began collecting weapons from civilians in Kabul as the insurgent group cements its swift takeover of Afghanistan.
“We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians,” a Taliban official told Reuters.
“ISIS was telling everyone, ‘We’re all brothers,’ ” Abu Malik said. “They let people smoke and drink. At the checkpoints, they distributed presents to the kids. They ate with people, drank tea with people. They were very nice—they didn’t bother anyone. Then, a week or so after they arrived, they started confiscating weapons. They told us it didn’t matter if we’d been with the Awakening or the Army or the police—if we gave up our weapons, we’d be forgiven. Ten days later, they started taking people. Everything changed. They took my cousin. My brothers dug holes in the fields and hid. I was at my house when they came for me. It was afternoon. I saw two Hyundai Santa Fes pull up outside, and I ran out the back and jumped over the wall. That was the last time I saw my family.”
Guns were confiscated prior to the Armenian genocide in Turkey, prior to the Nazi reign in Germany, prior to Idi Amin’s reign of terror in Uganda, and on the list could go.
And to repeat, gun control is never about confiscation of all guns, the usual rejoinder to these instances by the left. In fact, claiming so undermines the main point.
Gun control is always about leaving them in the hands of state-sanctioned actors and outlawing gun ownership by those not approved by the state.
On August 16, 2021 at 11:51 am, Kick Ass said:
I always said militant islam and the democrat party are ideological brethren.
On August 16, 2021 at 12:52 pm, NOG said:
The amount of people killed by their own government over the last 125 years should be prominently displayed. After all, that is the end result of gun control.
On August 16, 2021 at 1:06 pm, Pat Hines said:
If that’s true, and my knowledge of Afghan culture says it’s not, it will not be successful. There are small shops in the border areas with Pakistan that can build replicas of most small arms from AK to 1911s.
https://youtu.be/J-f7j-RlN_Q
On August 16, 2021 at 1:37 pm, DeepThought said:
The problem is that we did not push enough LGBTQ+ and BLM communism down their throats.
Maybe the fact we allowed child rape to be legalized in Afghanistan was not as popular as our corrupt elites thought it would be…
On August 17, 2021 at 9:20 am, Ron W said:
It’s a historical certitude and continues to now:
ONLY YOUR ENEMY WANTS YOU DISARMED
ALWAYS
On August 17, 2021 at 10:04 am, Red Man said:
Bear in mind Australia and New Zealand have been disarmed. Many Aussie cities are now in lockdown. Sydney did 80k tests, 111 positive, one death of a man over 80. So they shut Sydney down. New Zealand has shut the whole country down for ONE positive! How can they get away with this? They disarmed both countries. Thats how.
On August 17, 2021 at 1:32 pm, Fred said:
Having guns doesn’t really solve anything. In each of these instances the lack of willingness to use them was the real problem.
On August 17, 2021 at 8:22 pm, X said:
Herschel, I get your point that totalitarian societies all confiscate guns, but the myth of Nazi gun control is overstated.
The reality is that strict gun control laws were put into place in Germany by the Weimar government after numerous coup attempts by both communists and reactionaries, such as the Spartacist coup, the Bavarian Soviet, the infamous Munich putsch and the Kapp putsch. When the NSDAP won enough seats in the Reichstag to get Herr Hitler named Chancellor, they did so under the Weimar constitution and continued the Weimar gun control laws. Of course when they obtained power they forbade Jews from owning weapons, but aside from that the German population at large was generally under the same gun control regime as they had been under Weimar, which required permitting and registration and forbade carry, but did not involve outright confiscation for most people.
A better example is what happened in the Soviet Union. Large segments of the population were armed during the Revolution, but arms were subsequently confiscated once the Bolsheviks consolidated power. Interestingly, the Bolsheviks issued revolvers to party members under Lenin, but when Stalin came to power he required even party members to turn them in. What followed of course was the Great Purge, the Holodomor and the show trials.
In reality it must be acknowledged that if totalitarian societies confiscate guns, then Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, New York, and California are all totalitarian societies.
And they are.