ISIS And Gun Confiscation
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 11 months ago
“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.”
Totalitarians of all stripes have one thing in common. The ordinary folk cannot have weapons. Weapons are a threat to the hierarchy of rule, a symbol of power and independence, an enabler of equality.
Whether European and American totalitarians or ISIS, guns have to go. Fascists are all the same everywhere, always, throughout history.
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On January 19, 2016 at 9:09 am, Michael Schlechter said:
But this is America, so it’s different here. Our tyrants are warm and fuzzy and they care about us, so we should give up our guns for the greater good. [sarcasm off]
It remains beyond my comprehension that grown adults cannot think two or three steps beyond the bill of goods they are sold by media and government (but I repeat myself) and imagine the consequences actions that “seem reasonable”. I think of the gambler’s fallacy, which seems to make sense to people who are innumerate, as a parallel concept.
On January 19, 2016 at 5:15 pm, Pat Hines said:
Per Matt Bracken’s long short story.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/bracken-the-alienork-way/