This book is excellent! 6 stars if it were available. As I read in a prior review prior to buying it is not just for gun enthusiasts. It is for those who enjoy history and a desire to understand how we arrive where we are today. It is for those who do believe that history has a way of repeating itself unless understood in a way that allows society to change its path. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all human beings are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights. Among those rights are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The right to self defense is the only way people can protect their life and liberty. If you think the government is here to protect you and that society would be safer if all guns were taken from law abiding citizens, then you are a naively misinformed and wrong. I would highly recommend looking at two court cases (google them): 1. Hartzler v. City of San Jose, which essentially says that the government owes no duty to protect individual citizens from criminal attack; and 2. Bowers v. Devito, which essentially says the government has no responsibility to protect you from being killed.
The 2nd amendment is as important if not more than all of the other unalienable rights in our Bill of Rights. Read them and while you are reading look at the use of the word “people.” The 2nd amendment specifically states, ..."the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Some may argue about the definition of "people", but then by the same standard you would have to rethink what "people" refers to in the 1st amendment when providing the right to assemble, or the 4th amendment when it secures for the "people" the right to unreasonable search and seizure. Once you eliminate the 2nd amendment getting rid of the rest is only a matter of time. That is the progressive agenda. Big centralized government that makes decisions for you from cradle to grave. Don’t think it could happen here, that is what the Germans were thinking right around the 1920’s, when they started instituting gun control under a freely elected center right government, then Hitler came along. The book describes the chronological events that led to genocide in Germany, Russia, China, Nanking (under Japanese occupation), Guatemala, Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. These are just some examples of gun control that started 20 to 30 years prior to the genocides in these countries, and that is just the 20th century. Every succeeding executive branch seems to gather and consume more power at the expense of the "people." The larger our centralized government continues to become and the more controls it places on the "people" the more likely an incoming tyrant comes into the executive branch and shreds our Constitution along with our precious Bill of Rights. At that point any right you have is at the pleasure of the government, life and liberty be damned.
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