What Niemöller might say about "arms"
Political, Guns ·Sunday February 28, 2010 @ 20:45 EST (link)
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.
—Adolf Hitler
(From Reclaim America, 2010-02-25 @ 18:31, since it can't be linked to directly due to abject Facebook FAIL.)
People that replied seemed to be under the impression that they possessed, in the context of that quote, "arms", if they owned a semi-automatic pistol or rifle. They don't. The government will laugh at them and destroy them and 500 of their closest friends with a missile without bothering to get out of bed—and then blame them for any "collateral damage." We possess "arms" in the same way that a savage with a stick possesses "arms" against an enemy armed with a modern rifle. The second amendment was supposed to be about parity; but they've infringed it like all the rest (e.g., the 1934 National Firearms Act), and we didn't speak up.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
—Thomas Jefferson
By gradual and continued infringement of the right to liberty and property, specifically, in the American context, by pulling the teeth of the Second Amendment, they have turned us into sheep; and who fears sheep? As Jefferson predicted, the government no longer fears the people and there is indeed tyranny.
Books finished: Realizing Freedom.
