The Power Of Weapons To Tyrannize
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 6 months ago
Via Codrea, this from a prog.
“Basically, the Second Amendment is about killing Indians, taking their land, and increasingly, slave patrols,” Dunbar-Ortiz tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” The “Loaded” author lays out the genocidal genealogy of the right to bear arms, and explains that, at its root, it ensured the ability of white men to oppress people of color in order to steal or keep stolen land, and to control slaves through slave patrols.
This is interesting because in arguing against ownership of weapons, the communists always go too far and admit too much.
Consider. He inasmuch as admits that weapons can be a catalyst to tyranny in the wrong hands, and given the fallen state of mankind, any hands can be the wrong hands.
What he tacitly admits but doesn’t say so, is that he wants weapons concentrated in the hands of tyrants instead of the people who would be tyrannized, i.e., you and me.
The communists never want or argue for the complete absence of weapons, just weapons owned by you and me.
But just like weapons can be used to tyrannize, they can also be used to ameliorate tyranny. That’s what the communist can never allow.
On June 18, 2019 at 8:01 am, NOG said:
The quoted writer of the piece certainly looks masculine. I suspect due to a long term smoking addiction, but with a name like Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz I suspect she is in fact a female. Well, mostly female. But a ignorant and evil female for sure.
On June 18, 2019 at 8:10 am, NOG said:
On reading that again I see you were quoting this Scheer person. Sorry.
On June 18, 2019 at 9:01 am, Fred said:
Right Herschel, so they plainly state that guns were used to tyrannize but that little detail conveniently left out is that it was all legal, nice and tidy, with full gubmint approval and even conducted in part by federal troops. The commies want this power exclusively to themselves that’s all.
Republicans have this same deficit or, they know it and perhaps like it as well, often hard to tell. Everything Hitler did was legal and America now has many of the exact same laws repudiating citizens rights other than as granted by the State, and, the State has granted to itself exclusive sovereign immunity to conduct warfare on its citizens and anybody else in the world for that matter, all nice and legal, tidy as can be with a pretty little bow on top. Few seem to have noticed this. When the State starts granting rights that don’t exist to itself you will either worship it as a god or you are on the menu.
Think we got fun now, wait until Texas flips due to demographics, ending any Electoral College hopes of the smaller states, and then, Republicans will no longer be able to pretend that they care about the America of our founding. March left or die.